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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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British Citizen executed The british embassy in Beijing confirmed the execution of british citizen Akmal Shaikh. The 53-old british national was executed with a a lethal injection in Urumqi, the capital of the western chinese province Xinjiang. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned this measure very clearly. He is... Click here to read the full story!
Record holiday sales Chinas retail industry achieved a record turnover of 83 milliard dollars during national holidays this October. The chinese board of trade announced on last friday, 9. October 2008, that the retail industry sold consumer goods amounting to 570 milliard RMB's (approx. 83 milliard U.S. Dollars) ... Click here to read the full story!
Xi’an Underground Notes Sometimes we like to think of the past in a deluded nostalgic way that just takes the good and conveniently leaves out the bad. My memories of my 7+ years in Xi’an are inevitably littered with omissions and thought of in the way an American sees a Norman Rockwell Christmas poster. But I do... Click here to read the full story!
Fishing in Xi'an Fishing, that's a leisure activity which is not only helpful for refreshing your mind but also helpful to improve your power of patience. Being a Bangladeshi guy, I can live without meat and noodles but I can't without fish and rice as it is our national food. After five years living in... Click here to read the full story!
Finding Work in China II Here’s what I’ve been telling people about starting a business here. First, you have to really understand what China means for you. China is not competitive in commodities. China is not competitive in small qtty’s. China is not a billion people just waiting for... Click here to read the full story!
Daily Horror Just what kind of freakshows live in my building? Every day, the office toilets on my floor are reduced from a gleaming shrine to the wonders of bleach to a pit of filth by around 4pm. Just what exactly are people doing in there? The people I see striding down the corridors are respectably-attired... Click here to read the full story!
Shaanxi's diversity Local Xi'anese in general naturally prefer to communicate in their own dialect (Guanzhong Hua) rather than in Mandarin. You can easily hear people bargaining in the market in Guanzhong hua, or taxi drivers, close local friends or colleagues who chat with you in their own dialect. Unlike Shanghai... 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!
Independent of any fashion One of Spain's and Europe's greatest philosopher and writer - Balthasar Gracián († 6. Dezember 1658) - once wrote in his world famous work :"The Art of Wordly Wisdom", Aphorism CI: La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, y ambas son necias.... 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!
IT & Medientrends in China Technik und Computer halten in den Ballungszentren unvermindert Einzug. Im Entertainmentbereich ist es die neue Xbox von Microsoft und die Mobile Playstation von Sony. Übrigens wird die Xbox, wen wundert´s, auch in China gebaut: http://www.microsoft.com/china/press/2002/05/0515ae.mspx Und... Click here to read the full story!
De apartamento a aparcamiento Ya ha salido en los blogs más leídos sobre China, e incluso en algún célebre blog español, pero oye, no puedo quedarme sin hablar del apelotante suceso ocurrido el pasado fin de semana en Shanghai. Una imposible combinación de cimientos malos, paredes buenas y tierra movediza debido a las... 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!
Tuscany Restaurant Tuscany Cellar & Restaurant is one of the finest Italian restaurants in Xi'an. “Tuscany Cellar & Restaurant” is located in Xi'an (Gaoxin District).Tuscany offers an exquisite selection of food and wine choices to meet the taste of any customer. Here you can relax in a... 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!
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!
水泵男與蘋果谷 序 下面要講的是一件曾經發生在我身上的離奇事件。至于怎么離奇，以世間的眼光看來，實在是匪夷所思。但是它確實發生過，那種真實感就像暗夜的露水 在... 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!
Xi’an-China: An overrated tourist destination Xi’an is pouring rain. It has been raining here since the moment we landed, and is still downpouring. We hate Xi’an. It’s the first time on our trip that we really have wanted to go home or anywhere else and can’t, and it’s been an exercise in frustration. Most people... 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: 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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