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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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Kidnapped for speaking out A reporter with the German TV station Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) was interviewing a young man in China about the newspaper censorship controversy, when, immediately after the interview, a team of plainclothes Chinese police picked up the man like a slab of meat and threw him into the back of... Click here to read the full story!
New Marriott Hotel in 2011 Did you know: Marriott International has signed a long-term management agreement with Shaanxi Chang’An Construction & Investment Development a good while ago (2008) for an upscale new Marriott-branded hotel scheduled to open in Xi’an in 2011. The coming 315-room Xi’an Marriott... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an City Report Perhaps most famous for the Terra Cotta Warriors that guard the tomb of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Xian is the capital of Shaanxi Province. Located between Beijing and Chengdu in the north/ central part of China, Xian had historically been considered the “Gateway to the West”... 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!
Have you eaten yet? So, I was back in China last week, and thought I’d put in a goodwill visit to the old office - you know, to say Hi, how’s it going, oh, and if you have any spare jobs going in Xi'an etc etc… A few excited faces from behind the brain-numbing draw of Excel documents and the... Click here to read the full story!
Nightlife Popularity Charts Xi'an is a city with a long past and in the process of finding a new direction between the old way of life and the brightness of the modern world but the most striking contrast between the two is the nightlife in Xi'an. The places people can dance, sing and drink are often right next door... Click here to read the full story!
The Healthy Department I spent part of last weekend helping translate for a friend who was in the emergency room of a local hospital. Probably more scary to me than being sick in China is being taken to a hospital in China. My father was a doctor in a small town (the only OBGYN in a couple of counties) so I spent... 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!
ND successfully launched NEW DYNASTY, also known as "ND" has landed in Xi'an. Our concept is radically different and unique in Xi'an. We are the first REAL multilingual digital magazine in Xi'an with unique features and content and we enjoy a fast growing popularity among a young and open minded chinese... Click here to read the full story!
Oktoberfest in Xi'an Es hat die ganze Nacht geregnet und das Umschalten von einem trockenen, stumpfen Kunstrasenplatz auf einen nassen, zumindest für den Ball rutschigen scheint vielen meiner Mannschaftskameraden nicht wirklich zu gelingen. Und so erlebe ich das wohl schlechteste Fußballspiel hier in China und ich... 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!
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西班牙歌曲欣赏 hijo de la luna, 月亮之子最早出自于一个叫Mecano 的西班牙组合。歌手是Loona 来自荷兰。该曲从98年12月到99年一直位居德国歌曲排行首位以及其他国家的排行榜前列。Sarah Brightman... Click here to read the full story!
Andrés Oliván Andrés is Spaniard and works since 6 months now in Xi'an. He studied hotel management and tourism in Spain and is currently working in an international hotel in Xi'an. He appreciates his time here and sees it as a good preparation and experience for his future career in hotel management.... 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!
Tele china en español Existe la posibilidad de ver la televisión nacional china (CCTV) por Internet , y además traducida al español, lo cual, no sé si coincidirán conmigo, es la pera. Creo que es interesante echarle un vistazo, aunque sea sólo por curiosidad, para ver... 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!
Dynasty Hotel The Dynasty Hotel, with its ancient Chinese palatial style architecture is attractively located alongside the west Xi'an city wall. Transportation to and from the Dynasty Hotel is highly convenient, as we're situated at YuXiang Square 30 minutes drive to airport and 10 minutes the train station and... 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!
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!
3 Billion New Capitalists Better than Freidman’s “The World is Flat” because it has more research and less left-leaning political solutions. Clyde Prestowitz’s “3 Billion New Capitalists” is a more complex read and of more value since it looks at both the causes of America’s... 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!
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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