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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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Earthquake A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 (some sources say 6.9) strucked this morning, Thursday 18.02.09, in the border region of China, Russia and North Korea. This was reported by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and other Geological Research stations today. Its epicentre was... Click here to read the full story!
4 million RMB for a dog He belongs to the last pedigrees of its kind, and comes from the remote mountain valleys of the Himalayas and he costs as much as a single family house or a good car: The Tibetan Mastiff with the incredible creative name "Yangzi No. 2". Now, the noble animal was sold - for 400,000 euros... Click here to read the full story!
Real Estate Price war Real Estate companies compete desperately for customers these days. Hard times for them but good for consumers. It was never that cheap to buy a house/apartment these days in Xi'an. How long it will last until prices start to raise up again? It is quite usual these days that real estate companies... 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!
Pickpockets/Pickpocketing When I first came to Xi’an as a tourist more than a year ago, I was told “Xi’an is the pickpocket capital of China”. I like to see things at first hand, and not believe the hype, so I shrugged this off as a comment by someone who fears the unknown. Now a conscientious... Click here to read the full story!
Green Spring Festival China’s Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, is the most important festival for the Chinese population. It begins on the first day of the first Chinese lunar month (which usually falls between January and February of the Calendar of the Occident). Traditionally, the Spring Festival is marked... 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!
Hu needs hygiene? It’s just one of those inescapable facts of life here in China that foreigners will complain a lot. Whether it be over a weekday evening beer (why do you guys not have any cold ones?!), an office gossip session (can she please change that sodding ringtone?), or red-faced in the supermarket... Click here to read the full story!
News, Status and More Here we are again with a few notes about shortly added new features and great upcoming specials! Close followers know that we add bloody fresh stuff and news to ND, practically on a daily basis, but beside our regular updates there are some new and future additions that you should check out. We... Click here to read the full story!
Nankino Dum mi ekloĝis en Nankino, miaj usonaj gefamilianoj ne tute komprenis, kial mi volus translokiĝi al ĉi tie. Plejparte por usonanoj estas la problemo je la medio kaj tuta ekonomia sistemo ĉi tie. Ilia nekomprenado estis eĉ pli grava ol nun, ĉar la tempo kiam mi translokiĝis estis antaŭ... 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!
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!
第一次现场观看极限运动。很精彩 听说解放路万达广场将会举办一次极限运动赛事，不仅十分好奇，大概是攀岩之类吧。名字听说过，但不知道具体是做什么。尽管天气十分炎热，还是前去看看。毕竟这样现场观看的机会也不是很多。... Click here to read the full story!
Der Berg Hua Shan Es heißt, manche Berge sind so hoch, dass sie bis zum Himmel reichen. Es heißt auch, diese Berge würden den Himmel stützen. Die Taoisten erklärten bestimmte Berge als heilig. Einer davon ist der Hua Shan. Dieser liegt ca. 120 Kilometer von Xi'an entfernt und ist als Tagesausflug sehr gut zu... 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!
Prince Restaurant Xi'an Prince Restaurant is located at the 4-5th Floor of Prince Building, No.5 of Fen Road, South Street of Xi'an City. Its total area is 10,429.12 square meters and its business area is about 8,000 square meters. The Xi'an Prince Restaurant opened on December 28th, 2002. It has totally... Click here to read the full story!
Sofitel Located in the midst of Xian's commercial district, a legend within a legend, Renmin Square Xian is a complex spread out on richly landscaped grounds dotted with heritage structures dating back more than five decades. It has seen colourful days during China 's revolutionary days and has played... Click here to read the full story!
Tu nombre en chino Me he fijado que mucha gente entra en este blog porque quieren saber cómo se escribe su nombre en chino. Voy a ver si con este email puedo ayudar en algo a esa búsqueda, pero advierto que no es nada sencillo. Este post no va a dar la solución al problema, porque hace... 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!
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!
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!
Xi'an Models: Ya Meng Ya Meng is a professional model and a newcomer who's quiet confidence, hard work, and modern beauty have carried her to solid heights of success. She has worked for local designers and clients and focuses for 2010 to set foot beyond Xi'an. The Xi'an-born model is known for her... Click here to read the full story!
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