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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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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!
Emergency Bricks in Buses in Xi'an Due to terrible experiences with the bus catastrophe in Chengdu, Xi'an bus lines will now include "emergency bricks" in every bus. They are installed in case of emergencies such as fire or other substantial threats, to faciliate the escape. Those buses with air-conditioners are already... 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!
Opera masks on zebra crossings In Furongyuan (that's in the south east, where the Tang Dynasty Park is located as well), pedestrian zebra crossing are painted (since July) with Qinling opera masks Guangzhong shadow puppets. 2 zebra crossings were "enhanced" so far that way and 7 more will follow as said by an... Click here to read the full story!
The Only Difference After being married to a Chinese woman for two years, I have noticed one question constantly comes up in conversations with both Chinese and Western people. “What are the differences between Chinese and Western girls?” The differences really aren’t that dramatic or unfathomable.... 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!
Let's agreeing, OK? Eenglisha es a eenternational language. My study Eenglisha help I meet a much a-money. I'm father she want a me study much Eenglisha. I'm don't a like eet-a. For breakfirst my eat bread and a milk. You have two heads. But a I'm like sleeping, basketballs and a footaball. I'm study many year... Click here to read the full story!
1+1 Club When you enter the door of this popular club a standard security check awaits you. That is quite normal here for this kind of clubs and should be seen as a positive measure that increases safety. You should make sure that you are dressed "in style", although for foreign guests this rule... Click here to read the full story!
ND TV This is a small note to all readers and visitors: We have just completed a TV report featuring the so called "Textile City Art District" in Xi'an, a place which is now a melting point for artists, painters, designers. This is just a first report and we are going to bring you several... 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!
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!
西安模特：张倩 张倩是一名年轻，喜爱运动，音乐，为人友善，充满亲和力的本地女孩。虽然进入模特这个行业已经有几个年头，但她仍然时刻充满着对工作热爱的激情。是一个才华横溢，思路敏捷，脚踏实地的新新青年。... 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!
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!
Beute Ahse Letztens kamen wir beim Abendessen auf das Thema Sex Shop zu sprechen. Eigentlich weiß ich nicht wie es dazu kam, denn es war ein Geschäftsessen mit den Kunden aus Taiwan. Wie dem auch sei, ich erzählte meinen Kollegen, dass ich am Anfang nach einem Beute Ahse oder einen ähnlich kreativ... Click here to read the full story!
Charlie Charlie is a fellow China expat who currently lives in Chengdu. He's lived in China for more than 5 years and is an independent freelance DJ (Check out www.justcharlie.com and the website for his monthly party in Chengdu (called DISCO DEATH) www.discodeath.net) and Web Developer. He values life... Click here to read the full story!
Xing Qing Park Local people's leisure life in Xing Qing Park: Xi'an is the most historical and culture city of China similar to Kyoto to Japan and the best way to have the exposure to the City people's lesiure life is the parks around here. Xing Qing Park is the biggest and most beautiful among the... Click here to read the full story!
Preguntas y Respuestas ¿Por qué los camiones en China son azules? No lo sé, la verdad, pero sí que es cierto que es el color predominante. Me da que el azul es un color asociado en China con el trabajo: el color de los monos de los obreros, de las vallas de los lugares en construcción... De la misma forma que... Click here to read the full story!
Between two capitals: Xi'an and Beijing In its long history, China had many capitals. Xi'an served as the capital during the Han dynasty (late BCs -- early Ads) and then again for almost 400 years in medieval times serving four other one-syllable dynasties. Beijing was also a capital on and off, starting somewhere in the 12th century... Click here to read the full story!
Poorly Made in China Like a couple other of my favorite books on China, River Town and Mr. China specifically, I’m admitting to you now that the reason that I like this book so much is that this is my life in print. This is what I’ve done for the past 7 years in China—solved other people’s... Click here to read the full story!
Who do you like to work with? Probably who you identify most easily with. A year or so ago my then 5 year-old told me, in all seriousness, “Dad I’m like Kobe, not white like you.” Suppressing laughter I responded, “Actually, you’re more like Yaoming than Kobe.” But he was... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an Models: Zhang Qian Ru Zhang Qian Ru is a charismatic model and university student studying tourism and logistics. As a model she is based in Xi'an, but she recently did a photo shoot in Henan which was followed by commercial photo sessions for several local agencies in Xi'an. Besides modelling, which she... Click here to read the full story!
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