Category Archives: Social Issues

Hand Gestures In China: What Not To Do

Imagine that you are a visitor to China and you wish to talk to a friend who is not right near you. Imagine the volume of sounds that are all around you: others calling to each other, cell phones ringing, … Continue reading

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China To Build Tallest Tower As Fiscal Stimulus

New tower building destined to have small shop people nearby as calm zones. So Chinese antiques shop keepers would gape in awe from their small sales stall in small enclaves left in areas of Shanghai. They have found this allows … Continue reading

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China’s Twentieth Century – What a Hundred Years

Chinese antigues shop thinking has us whittling by the stove but taking turns reading from some history book. We see that the Boxer Rebellion broke out in 1900, and that it was due to frustration of Chinese over decades of … Continue reading

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Mongolia: Inner and Outer, Pale Remnants of Terror

Chinese antiques shop knowledge is that there is one Mongolian people, and they are the northern neighbors of the Chinese, who finally built a wall to keep them out. Across east Asia there are many variants of peoples with these … Continue reading

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Buddhism, Tibet, The Dalai Lama And China Today

Chinese Antiques Shop collecting predates the life and times of Buddha, who lived BC 566-486. Buddhism came to China from the west, up and around the Himalaya mountains and then across the Tibetan Plateau and then the Mongol deserts. The … Continue reading

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Buddhism, Tibet, The Dalai Lama And China Today

Chinese Antiques Shop collecting predates the life and times of Buddha, who lived BC 566-486. Buddhism came to China from the west, up and around the Himalaya mountains and then across the Tibetan Plateau and then the Mongol deserts. The … Continue reading

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China: Border Ethnic Minority Issues

To follow this story, you are requested to assume you are an Anglo Saxon male. You are in a shop that sells things ladies buy and you would rather wait outside. But she who must be obeyed and several garments … Continue reading

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China: Border Ethnic Minority Issues

To follow this story, you are requested to assume you are an Anglo Saxon male. You are in a shop that sells things ladies buy and you would rather wait outside. But she who must be obeyed and several garments … Continue reading

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China: Border Ethnic Minority Issues

To follow this story, you are requested to assume you are an Anglo Saxon male. You are in a shop that sells things ladies buy and you would rather wait outside. But she who must be obeyed and several garments … Continue reading

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The Great Bailout Stall, Part II: U.S. Debt

Someone asked me yesterday why I believe in capital punishment. I immediately gave them four good reasons: Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, and Chris Dodd. But, in all fairness to these fine people who have devoted their lives to … Continue reading

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