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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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Grand China Air Organizes Lectures Grand China Air, a Chinese airline, is holding lectures on opera appreciation as part of its sponsorship of Opera Festival 2009 organized by the National Center for the Performing Arts. It is reported that a total of ten lectures will be held across the country, with three in Beijing, and seven in... Click here to read the full story!
German industrialists attack Chinese Two of Germany’s most prominent industrialists have attacked the business and investment climate in China during a meeting with Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier. The criticism from the businessmen, the chief executives of Siemens and BASF, came against a backdrop of rising discontent among... Click here to read the full story!
Order Food: A little Guide I have been living in China for one year now. And like most foreigners, I always ended up in the same few restaurants and always ordered the same few dishes. Even in restaurants with an English menu or with pictures. I often didn't know what the dishes are, either because of translations like... Click here to read the full story!
Starbucks in Xi'an It appears that I’ve located the most wretched hive of scum and villainy in Xi’an, and it’s a place you’d least expect. Starbucks. These past two nights I’ve gone to the downtown Starbucks near the Drum Tower section of Xi’an. It’s been a great place for... 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!
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!
Rich & Poor students Five hours of listening to students butchering your language is nothing. Nothing. I've been doing it for days on end. (Actually, I've finished now, and just have to mark them all - which is the real killer. Also, I've been quite impressed with the lack of butchery. This either shows... 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!
It's exciting So...it's time for a new ND Note! A LOT of things are happening right now in Xi'an and it keeps us busy the whole day. Progress and advance all the way along! We luv it! First of all, thanks to all those thousands of visitors who follow us regularly. Thanks to our valued subscribers and customers... Click here to read the full story!
Kempinski Xi'an Founded in Germany 111 years ago, Kempinski Hotels has long reflected the finest traditions of European hospitality. Today, as ever, Kempinski is synonymous with distinctive luxury. Located in many of the world's most well known cities and resorts, the Kempinski collection includes hotels in the... 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!
Versuche es mit Gemütlichkeit... Meister Yoda sagte einst: Furcht ist der Pfad zur dunklen Seite. Furcht führt zu Wut, Wut führt zu Hass, Hass führt zu unsäglichem Leid. Eine der Yoga Weisheiten besagt: Die Gedanken sind der Ursprung aller unseren Gefühlen und Handlungen, deshalb gilt es sie zu beherrschen.So wäre es... 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!
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!
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!
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!
Kong Han Rui Kong Han Rui is a newcomer in Xi'ans music scene. She is a solo performer and plays mostly at the HUTONG Bar (Opposite to the Howard Johnson Ginwa Plaza Hotel) in Xi'an at the moment. Did you want to be a singer since childhood? When did you realize that singing was your mission? Since... Click here to read the full story!
Travel Journal: 西安 (Xi'an) Coming in from the airport after a flight from Hangzhou, I couldn't help but notice how much emptier and arid the countryside appeared. The moisture sucked out of it, the scenery consisted mainly of dust, ramshackle mudbrick homes and distant power plants smothered in haze of their own... 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!
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!
The Chinese Dichotomy I spent 12 hours in a factory on Monday resolving concerns, fighting with resistant engineers, negotiation with managers, hobnobbing with the owners over lunch, discussing solutions with line managers, reviewing standards with QC/QA folks and generally working though every single production issue... Click here to read the full story!
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