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Xi'an Models: Guo Jia
Xi'an continues as a breeding ground for potential supermodels. The latest example is our new discovery and head-turner Guo Jia, who will be craning necks when she appears on local fashion magazines this year. We are proud of having her onboard.This university student has been thrust onto the fashion stage in the past couple of months and is really making an impact, becoming a new favorite ND Model! Since winning a model contest in Hangzhou last year, 1,78m Guo Jia will ...
China's Incredible Find
The terracotta army was discovered by accident in 1974 at Xian , in China, when local farmers digging a well broke into a pit containing 6000 li...
Tedious Taxi Trouble
Cab driver got the full whack of my jetlagged frustration as I arrived into the capital this morning. A female cab driver, I might add - alw...
Cross-cultural communication
Some time ago, I read an interesting linguistic article called Inscrutability Revisited by Linda Wai Ling Young ("Language and Social I...
It's Teatime!
I want to talk about three things, in my very first article for New Dynasty. Learning chinese, my perceptions of concepts of personal space ...
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HK Movie Director in Xi'an Newsflash: Hong Kong movie director Wong Jing's newest movie starring, Eason Chan, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Anthony Wong "Money Empire" will have its national premiere on April 30th 2009. The new movie will be shown at the opening ceremony, which will be held in Xi'an. The director itself will... Click here to read the full story!
High-Speed-Rails A new dedicated 968-kilometer high-speed rail line linking Wuhan, in the heart of central China, to Guangzhou, on the southeastern coast is coming. In test trials, the "WuGuang" trains (locally built variants of Japan's Shinkansen and Germany's ICE) clocked peak speeds of up to 394 km/h.... Click here to read the full story!
Eating out for "Nianyefan" Nianyefan is the Chinese term for the dinner on the eve of Chinese New Year (CNY). Marking the end of the year and the coming of the new lunar year, it is regarded as the most important reunion meal for Chinese families and is traditionally cooked at home as a big event, with delicacies usually... Click here to read the full story!
Boom Market: Construction In the last couple of years the Xi'an region has actually grown at an average of 15% per year. The growth in Xi'an is therewith once again 50% to 100% higher than in the rest of Mainland China. You think that China's economic growth of 8% is impressive? Well, according to the governor of Shaanxi... Click here to read the full story!
Chinese Massage One of the nice things of being in China is the leisure of a massage. I started going to the massage a couple of weeks after I arrived in Xi’an and meanwhile I try to go every week. I do not know much about the science behind the chinese massage but as my teacher told me, chinese massage... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an City Report Perhaps most famous for the Terra Cotta Warriors that guard the tomb of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Xian is the capital of Shaanxi Province. Located between Beijing and Chengdu in the north/ central part of China, Xian had historically been considered the “Gateway to the West”... Click here to read the full story!
Xiangsheng Chinese people don’t react the way that you’d expect them to at many “foreign” events like plays or concerts (14 year old psychotic girls screaming for asexual non-threating wholesome Supergirls, not withstanding). Your average Chinese crowd will applaud in the wrong places... Click here to read the full story!
Fantasy Club Xi'an Nightclub "Fantasy" in Xi'an from a manly, slightly drunken point of view. When entering Fantasy it seems like a regular nightclub. Of course the first thing to do is to get something to drink. That’s when you first start wondering that what this place is. Bartenders play with... Click here to read the full story!
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Xi'ans Air Quality Index (AQI) An air quality index (AQI) is a number used by government agencies to communicate to the public how polluted the air is currently or how polluted it is forecast to become. As the AQI increases, an increasingly large percentage of the population is likely to experience increasingly severe adverse... Click here to read the full story!
Falsa Falsaĵo En ĉi tiu epoko ni kutimiĝis al falseco: Holivudo, komputilaj ludoj, televidaj reklamoj, inaj ŝminkado, ŝerco-novaĵoj, sojkazea viando, plastika ĉio....Sed nun, la ĉinoj regas pli kaj pli multe da la videbla mondo kaj ni malkovras strangegan aferon: falsan falsaĵon, mensogon pri mensogo,... Click here to read the full story!
吸烟者怕 一个初中的厕所里，很难找到一个不吸烟的，偶尔找到一个，发现经常被欺负 一个高中的教室里，都上课10分钟了，烟雾还没有散去 你不吸烟就好象 大家都听周杰伦，你听秦腔 迎来的是嘲笑一声：噫--- 就好象... Click here to read the full story!
Textile City Art District Much like Beijing 798 and Shanghai 1933, Xi'an has an art district called Textile town. The district is not an actual town but derives its name from the many textile factories built there since the 1950s. Xi’an Textile City Arts District is situated at Textile City in east Xi’an, which... Click here to read the full story!
Springbrunnen Ich habe deutsch erst gelernt als ich erwachsen war, und selbst wenn ich es von klein auf gelernt hätte… Springbrunnen besteht aus drei Silben, „r“ kommt zwei Mal vor und fängt mir „Spr“ an. Alles schwierige Sachen, zumindest habe ich diese Vorstellung. Und ich... Click here to read the full story!
Baños en China Si sabian que el 19 de noviembre es el dia internacional del baño? Y por eso...Una de las cosas fascinantes de estar en China es que aun las cosas mas banales y sencillas pueden terminar siendo un reto, un desafio una experiencia inolvidable. La ida al baño por ejemplo. Una de las diferencias... Click here to read the full story!
Bell Tower Hotel Xi’an Bell Tower Hotel is a four-star hotel and one of the earliest joint-venture hotels in Xi’an, is located at the busy center of Xi’an, neighboring the Bell Tower & Drum Tower Square where the historical and modern features are syncretized and close to the famous... Click here to read the full story!
John Beddoe John Beddoe is one of those exceptional expats who is absolutely worth to be mentioned. He is, due to his professional obligations in his home country Australia, an irregular visitor of Xi'an yet. But even so, he always looks forward to come back to Xi'an and enjoys the teaching classes... Click here to read the full story!
Golden Dynasty Explore the exciting experience in Chinese cuisine at the Golden Dynasty Chinese Restaurant, with specialty foods originating from Beijing known as the Tan Jia Cai style of food. Take pleasure in dining exquisite Chinese cuisine in an elegant atmosphere, or in one of the private rooms for an... Click here to read the full story!
Outliers Outliers, is the latest thought provoking book from Malcolm Gladwell. I don’t typically review books that I read that are not specifically about business in Asia here. And this book has, as it’s thesis, nothing to do with China. But there are a couple of really... Click here to read the full story!
The Clay Things Xi’an was the second leg of our trip. Josh really wanted to see the “Terracotta Warriors.” Knowing absolutely nothing about China before the trip, I began to refer to them as “The Clay Things.” Not because I didn’t know their name, but because I didn’t... Click here to read the full story!
The personal price we pay I originally wrote this as a list of warning for those who are maybe a bit over excited about coming to work in China. I didn’t mean it as a bash, but just a list of things that are real. After I finished, I thought that it might be a tad derogatory, so I ingested a large amount of chocolate... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an Models: Wu Shan Wu Shan is a natural and decent girl from Xi'an. For insiders well known, since she can be found on many fashion catalogues and advertisements in the city. She is a kind of model that radiates classical beauty and elegant charm. Outside of modelling, she studies media, information and fashion... Click here to read the full story!
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