Tag: China
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Gray Skies over Beijing
Beijing, a city of twenty million people was a haze of gray this time around. Smog, smog, smog – blanketing the city like a persistent canker. Most Chinese cities fail minimum air quality standards and it probably came as no surprise to Beijing residents that their air quality standards were met only 48 percent of…
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Sunny Shanghai
The skies were blue, the temperatures cool in the early spring and Shanghai sparkled like a jewel in the Chinese crown during our visit there in mid-March. It’s a dazzling city buzzing with energy and excitement. Everyone heads to the Bund – an area full of landmark buildings, exclusive restaurants, hotels and boutiques. In short,…
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Happiness around the world
I’m still waiting for warmer weather, so I’m not too happy at the moment, but Bob has some good observations to share about the subject of happiness. Here’s his input 🙂 Recently, I attended a lecture about the distribution and causes of happiness around the world. The speaker was Ed Diener, a psychologist who has…
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A China Conversation
Naseem: It’s good to be back in Hong Kong after nine eventful days in populous China. Our hosts in Beijing University, Shandong University in Jinan and Nankai University in Tianjin were so hospitable, generous, and ever so respectful. I know you’ll find this embarrassing but I just have to say this because it was something…
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