misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 02 2007 | china, art, sculpture, history, India, Buddhism, religion
Quoted: The earliest piece, an expertly finished sandstone stele of the meditating Buddha dated 462 A.D., retains some of the sweet, yielding organicism of contemporaneous Indian art. But within a few decades into the Northern Wei period (386-534 A.D.), this model undergoes alteration. The limbs are stretched, the body flattened, the face squared off, the faint smile replaced, as often as not, by an emphatic grin.
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2008 | China, India, Tibet, refugee
Quoted: The schism within the Tibetan refugee community reflects its awkward position as a guest in India, a country that has long tried to strike a delicate balance between maintaining good relations with China, its powerful neighbor, and allowing the Dalai Lama and his followers, who are based here, to keep their cause alive. The explosion of the Tibetan crisis has made that high-wire act even more difficult to maintain.
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 28 2007 | China, Asia, business
Quoted: The $2.4 billion Venetian Macao Resort, scheduled to open here Tuesday, will give Sin City more than a run for its money
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2007 | Africa, China, business, globalization
Quoted: “Before I left China,” said Mr. Yang, now 25, “I thought Africa was all one big desert.” So he figured that ice cream would be in high demand, and with money pooled from relatives and friends, he created his own factory ...
ShareViewed: 1 Time - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2007 | Africa, China, business, globalization, development, poverty
Quoted: In mineral-rich countries that had been all but abandoned by foreign investors because of unrest and corruption, Chinese companies are reviving output of cobalt and bauxite. China has even become the new mover and shaker in agricultural countries like Ivory Coast, once the crown jewel in France’s postcolonial African empire, where Chinese companies are building a new capital, in Yamoussoukro, paid for by Chinese loans.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 20 2007 | China, Africa, globalization, business, poverty
Quoted: Across Africa, and especially in the relatively robust economies of southern Africa, there are clear winners and losers. Textile mills and other factories here in Zambia have suffered and even closed as cheap Chinese goods flood the world market, eliminating much-needed jobs in a country where less than half the adult population has formal employment. And the Chinese investment in copper mining here has left a trail of heartbreak and recrimination after one of the worst industrial accidents in Zambian history, a blast at a Chinese-owned explosives factory in Chambishi in 2005 that killed 46 people, most of them in their 20s.
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 12 2007 | China, technology, law, surveillance, fascism
Quoted: Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading across Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips ...
And this is in addition to about 20,000 surveillance cameras on the streets of Shenzen.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 01 2007 | books, business, China
Quoted: These include “Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Relative Prince,” a creation whose name in Chinese closely resembles the title of the genuine sixth book by Ms. Rowling, as well as pure inventions that include “Harry Potter and the Hiking Dragon,” “Harry Potter and the Chinese Empire,” “Harry Potter and the Young Heroes,” “Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon,” and “Harry Potter and the Big Funnel.”
ShareViewed: 1 Time - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 17 2007 | Olympic Games, China
Quoted: Citywide campaigns are trying to improve the public awareness of manners ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Also courtesy of the Beijing Olympics- the "pleasanty surprise of groping" and other compelling signage.
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