Shenzhou-III, China's third unmanned space shuttle launched on March 25 touched down smoothly in the central part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in...
Hi Would anyone know of a “chinathebeautiful” group in Southern Florida. I live here in Fort Lauderdale and would love to meet up with such a group for ...
Hello Again, Fellow Sinophiles, I'm re-posting this since, as someone pointed out, the file I mentioned was absent from my server space for a time (for reasons...
China launched the third spacecraft Shenzhou on March 25, 2002 as reported by People's Daily. http://english.people.com.cn/200203/25/eng20020325_92794.shtml ...
Hello, Fellow Sinophiles, I'm wondering if anyone can help shed light on the characters from a chop someone has asked me to decipher. The character style is an...
Dear Mark, Ming and friends,
Thanks a lot for the link. I read the article just now and found it very
interesting.
I know only a little bit about foot...
Hello, Group, I'm your newest member saying Hello ("Hello") and passing on a link to an article from today's Seattle Times on foot binding in traditional China...
Yahoo seems to have cut the URL in half. You may have to put together http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ and html/artsentertainment/134421291_feet17.html. If...
Rudy posted an article on solar lighter, which is a concave metal mirror. The mirror focuses sun lights to a point in order to ignite fires. It's a bit...
Please visit the phot album under the title of "Astro Charts" to view the marking of time during the day and night in the Qin and Early Han period. The info is...
These two words are written the same way, but are not the same word. One word is "chang" which means "long." The second word is "zhang" which means "to grow." ...
Hi everyone, I've been told the picture I just posted is a compass, coppied from a book about ancient China. I've also been told that the writing represents...
Dear Ming, thanks for posting this famous motto of Dr. Sun-Yat-sen (Zongshan), which I remember having once encountered when visiting the Sun Yat-sen Memorial...
I am a history student at Central Michigan University, my current focus is on modern China and its relation with western society. I am also a student of...
I thought I knew about computer until Yahoo came along and shattered my pride. I have another group which I am the moderator. Just signed up several new...
Twenty one days into the "Beginning of Spring ¥ß¬K¡§¡M the weather is not getting warmer in North America. Even in Beautiful British Columbia, light snow...
Dear Tin-Kay, I took a look at the New York Times link and the article is quite interesting. In there, it has Qianling's portrait and I wonder if Ming can ask...
A friend at Asiawind forum indicates that Bush meant to say "da guo" (large country). I just watched the actual recorded broadcast by c-span. He clearly said...
In GW Bush's question/answer session at Qinghua University, he made the following remarks: "Six years from now, athletes from America and around the world will...
Dear Ming, since our board is now YahooGroups, would you please direct the link (for Netscape browser) to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chinathebeautiful ...
Dear Ming and friends, The following site has some identical materials to Ming's site. http://web.hanyang.ac.kr/~pendar/chinese/wbichinese/resource/archive/c ...
Dear Friends, A book of collaborative work in Chinese ink painting by Ms. FU YiYao ³Å¯qº½ and my calligraphy will be published this coming March/April by...
The Book Annals carved on bamboo strips is a most remarkable book, with a wealth of detailed historical events that is unbelieabe! The book has been printed...
hi my name is herman. i speak neither chinese nor english and only be able to recognize a bit of them. yet i love poems. so problem comes when i try to read...
I got the following from Paul and Bernice Noll who said: I thought you might like to see this. Try it: If you have not seen this, it is absolutely unbelievable...
