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The New Republic’s Christopher Beam explains the popularity in China of apparently...
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Study: China Will Top United States In Beijing Medals
Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has issued a report that predicts China will win 88 medals at this summer’s Olympics, one more than the United States. From AP via International Herald Tribune: “As the host...
First Comes the Car, Then the $10,000 License Plate – Jim Yardley
From the New York Times: At a government auction inside a dingy gymnasium, a young businessman named Ding walked away a happy winner the other day. Like everyone else, he was bidding on license plates and did not seem to mind that his cost $6,750…. No country is more bonkers over cars than China, where […]
China counts 800 days to Olympics – Reuters
From Reuters, via tvnz.co.nz (link): That Beijing organisers have chosen to mark 800 days to the start of the 2008 Olympics on Wednesday will come no surprise to those familiar with the power of numbers in China. Auspicious numbers have long played a part in Chinese culture – witness the 9,999 rooms of Beijing’s Forbidden […]
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