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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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11 Tigers Starve to Death in Zoo Eleven rare Siberian tigers have starved to death at a zoo in northeast China over the past three months, state-run media reported Friday. The 11 tigers kept at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo, located in Liaoning Province's capital Shenyang, all died due to malnutrition, Shenyang Wild Animal... Click here to read the full story!
CR Vanguard expands massively CR (China Resources) Vanguard a popular retail store chain announced massive expansion plans in Xi'an for 2009. Wang Weiyong, the senior VP of Vanguard revealed that the company plans to open four new super large supermarkets before the end of 2009. One of them is about to open in July... Click here to read the full story!
Real estate prices in Xi'an As of today, the average housing cost of downtown Xi’an, the most developed and inhabited metropolis in Northwestern China, is slightly over 5,500 CNY per square meter (646 EURO or 820 USD). For a common household comprising of 3 family members, an apartment measuring 70 square meters or more... Click here to read the full story!
Chinese Superstitions Many Chinese sank into absurdity, rushing to wed before the coming of the Rooster Year (2005), a "widow's year" made by an ancient superstition arising from a calendar quirk. Because of the vagaries of the Chinese lunar calendar, that Rooster Year did not contain the traditional Start... Click here to read the full story!
Top 75 books for learning Chinese Mandarin Chinese isn't a very complex language, in real life, if you have Chinese-speaking friends then you can practise with them or there are a numerous online Mandarin schools exist for helping improve your Chinese. But the most important is that you need to be practiced daily with your... Click here to read the full story!
International is what? What are the criteria in China used for a company to be allowed to term the phrase “International” within the title of their business, eg International Hotel. It seems apparent to me that this is a clever deux started by someone, with an idea that far stretches meeting demands of... Click here to read the full story!
It’s not all their fault. I drive my own car here. Some people think I’m nuts. I find it quite convenient, if not a bit stressful. If you don’t drive yourself, you may be oblivious to the traffic around. But chances are you probably sit in back and complain about the traffic and the “drivers” on the... Click here to read the full story!
Ryan and Marcello On 3. September 2009 a nice and cosy event took place at OSCAR's Bar and ND was there for you. Marcello Gil and Ryan Peters 2 friendly expats and artists in Xi'an were showing a glimpse of their great musical skills. Marcello and Ryan are true insider tips of the expat music scene and one of the... Click here to read the full story!
Well, well... Well, well...first of all FACEBOOK is blocked and not directly accessible in CN since today around 7 p.m. TWITTER is not accessible as well since a couple of days. YOUTUBE is not accessible since a couple of weeks. And not to mention other popular platforms. That means that all of our ND readers,... Click here to read the full story!
Shangri-La Xi'an The only deluxe hotel located in the Gaoxin hi-tech development zone, Shangri-La Hotel, Xian brings modern luxury and legendary Shangri-La hospitality to China's eternal city. Shangri-La Hotel, Xian has the very best of the city right on its doorstep, from leading multi-national businesses to the... Click here to read the full story!
Café 21 Indulge yourself in the Café 21 Western Restaurant, in western cuisine at Café 21 in Xian where you can enjoy the finest specialty steaks and international dishes from our menu; or choose to try our international Daily buffet. Our Buffet includes hotpot, grills, and steaks along with... Click here to read the full story!
You - Mei you A nadie le va a extrañar no encontrar tortilla de patatas, discos de Camela o bocadillos de chistorra en China. Sin embargo, aquí se adjunta una lista de cosas cotidianas que uno piensa hay en todas partes, pero que en el país más poblado del mundo son imposibles de encontrar. Mei you (no... Click here to read the full story!
Ian Clark Ian Clark also known as "Tao Yiran" is a true insider and not be taken as an usual common expat. He's been in this country for a decade. He has mastered Mandarin so extraordinarily well that he now works as a successful English-Chinese translator. Besides, he is a passionated musician... 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!
Eine tapfere kaiserliche Armee Es war kein Schliemann, der – mit der Ilias im Tornister – zu wissen glaubte, wonach er suchte. Es waren der Bauer Yang Quanyi und fünf seiner Kollegen, die am 29.März 1974 in einem Dorf nahe der alten Kaiserstadt Xi’an einen Brunnen vier Meter in die Tiefe trieben und... 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!
Great Mosque of Xi'an The Great Mosque of Xi'an is a tranquil and historic mosque that has served Xi'an's Muslim community for more than a millennium. The largest and best preserved of the ancient mosques of China, its buildings are a fascinating fusion of Chinese and Arabian styles. A mosque was first built on this... Click here to read the full story!
Likes and Dislikes Xi'an was a blast from the past, literally. It is an old city in China, full of history, yet modernized like all other industrializing cities in China and of course, home to the Terracotta warriors. A couple of hard facts in advance: Xi'an or Sian, capital of Shaanxi province, China, in the Wei... 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!
Strategies & Experiences I had an interesting experience (interesting, as in: I learned a lot and didn’t get screwed) today with a factory that is working with us on a couple of projects. Basically the owners and the manager came to talk with me about the fact that we are “too strict” on our quality... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an Models: Rebecca Li She was on our list of future ND Models for months and finally arrives today. Every single reason would be good enough to feature Rebecca Li but for the most unknown ones we’ve never published these sensational shots until now. We felt it was time, big time. There is too much in her portfolio... Click here to read the full story!
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