Archive for the ‘Capitalismo’ Category
Beijing’s vanishing charm: for a buck, for better living conditions, and for a hefty price
Chicken coup, built atop a home inside a Beijing hutong It’s a bit mysterious to me how my fascination with China began; this far into it, I cant quite retrace the steps back to the beginning. But one of the first books I read about the country was journalist Ian Johnson’s Wild Grass: Three Portraits [...]
July 21st, 2010We spill our hearts, to Google
Infamous for its simple homepage About a month ago, I was flipping channels and found myself watching an extended news program on Google and the history of the search engine. In one sense, it was a brilliant business idea to arise at a time when people were trying to figure out what the heck you [...]
June 11th, 2010Snapshot Yangzhou: under construction
Caution: This road under construction Walking down the street right outside the north campus entrance felt a little bit third-world, a little bit plain dangerous. But it was just construction– in this case, widening of the road. The way it was so exposed shocked me nearly every time I walked it. And unlike in the [...]
June 10th, 2010Location, Ecuador: When your first cinema experience is Avatar in 3D
Indigenous Ecuadorians watched Avatar in 3D; for some of them this was their first movie theater experience. (Image from PRI / World in Words podcast) Not intending to jump on the bandwagon of the Avatar-debating blogsphere, I have to bring up one interesting story from the global audience’s experience. Early this year there was a [...]
March 26th, 2010An idol for the “emperors”
On the way to work this morning, I heard part of this report from NPR, about a wildly popular young writer who defines himself as “the voice of a generation.” He is a pop culture figure in China, a twenty-five-year-old who sounded a bit narcissistic to say the least. His appeal to the “little emperors”– [...]
May 28th, 2009Tooth tale: Be mindful of your dentist
I can say from personal experience that it pays to floss. Your dentist has always been right; flossing once a day keeps your mouth healthier and aids in avoiding plaque and disease. When your other option is to pay a big chunk of money, taking one minute at night to floss proves easy and actually [...]
April 25th, 2009Economies on edge
Just read this on “The Economist” Web site; it is a pretty interesting opinion piece on the bail-outs, the financing and investment collapses, and the world-wide effect now rippling through. While I don’t agree per say with all of the author’s diagnoses, he does bring up some little-known points about the money markets of the [...]
October 7th, 2008