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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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New Infoterminals at Da Yan Ta North Square On Saturday, six terminal machines were installed at the North Square of Big Goose Pagoda. With these machines, visitors can look up information about buses, trains, flights and tourist attractions. What attracted people most, is that these machines offer free drinking water. The developer of the... 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!
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!
ESL for Shopkeepers Look, if you don’t speak English and you absolutely want to hawk your crap on unsuspecting tourists in Xi'an, then you really need to work on expanding your bursting two word vocabulary. I’m not trying to be tough on you. I really enjoyed our conversation today. You don’t remember... Click here to read the full story!
Running in Xi'an The pollution in Xi'an is not better or worse than in other chinese cities. Nevertheless, running in Xi'an is quite different from other cities I have been. There might be pleasant parks in Xi'an if you manage to go far away from the city centre. Country side like areas are practically not very... Click here to read the full story!
Learn Standard Chinese We discovered a great free resource to learn standard chinese and dozens of other languages as well. And we want to share it with you: "Standard Chinese: A Modular Approach", provided by the Foreign Service Institute. This institute teaches foreign languages to U.S. diplomats, military-... Click here to read the full story!
Chinese Banquets As a foreigner living in China, I've had countless banquets thrown with me being the guest of honor. A banquet to welcome me, a banquet to see me off, and banquets in between with numerous leaders, members of the communist party and sometimes just interested people who want my friendship and a... Click here to read the full story!
Xi’an Underground Notes Sometimes we like to think of the past in a deluded nostalgic way that just takes the good and conveniently leaves out the bad. My memories of my 7+ years in Xi’an are inevitably littered with omissions and thought of in the way an American sees a Norman Rockwell Christmas poster. But I do... Click here to read the full story!
Résumé & Outlook ND made its first event on 27. September and this is a small resume about it. Many thanks to all participants who were present that day and we regret that many of you could not make it, either because they did not find the location (Hello Noruma and Lourens :-)) or because they could not leave... Click here to read the full story!
Add your restaurant! 15 SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR FREE! If you would like to have your restaurant introduced on ND and with direct link to your website, then now is the right moment to do so. You can be in front of our readers and visitors as well as being included in all of the major search engines. If your link is on... Click here to read the full story!
Hyatt Regency Hyatt Regency Xian Hotel in China is ideally located within the ancient walls of historic Xian city centre. The hotel is close to the Xian Provincial Government Offices, Xian's central business district and the major entertainment, shopping and nightlife areas, making them easily accessible on foot... Click here to read the full story!
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Banken in China Momentan, wie in allen Teilen der Welt, erschüttert vor allem die globale Finanzkrise die Menschen, welche dafür sorgt, dass viele sich unsicher fühlen, speziell in finanziellen Angelegenheiten. Die grosse Angst vor womöglicher Arbeitslosigkeit und der Standortwechsel vieler potenzieller... 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!
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!
中国女生在荷兰 姓名:靳婷婷 学校:鹿特丹商学院 专业:国际商务管理 荷兰跟中国是个非常不同的国家，我出生在中国的西北，以干旱 沙尘暴 而闻名。而荷兰正好到处是河流湖泊的国家，景致完全不同。像Delft... Click here to read the full story!
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!
Etnias de China No quiero explicar mucho de los grupos étnicos chinos, porque son tantos que este post se alargaría mucho. Os doy, eso sí, varios sitios donde podéis encontrar mucha información: Este enlace de China.com sobre los grupos étnicos está muy bien porque... Click here to read the full story!
Hadi Abbas Hadi is a Colombian of arabian heritage. He works in the hotel business and is the F & B Manager of an international Hotel in Xi'an. He is very excited of working in China and to collect a lot of valuable experience for his life and career. Hadi lives in Xi'an since quite a time now -... 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!
ChimeLong - Guangzhou Zoos in China, usually a foreigner walks in and feels like an angry animal activist; because of the sad animals on display living in squalid shelters with little or nothing to play or look at. So the few hours spent walking around looking at the different enclosures, is time spent commenting on... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an Models: Zhang Qian Zhang Qian is a young and friendly local girl who likes sports, going out with friends, music. She has been in the model business since a couple of years and one can feel her passion for it. Very talented, open minded and a girl with "her feets on the ground". We met Zhang Qian, at her... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an: A Market Report Since the 1999 launch of the national Great Western Development Strategy, Xi’an has grown rapidly as a major gateway to western China. With annual economic growth exceeding 13 percent, the city was spared the effects of the global financial crisis that affected China’s coastal areas.... Click here to read the full story!
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