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Inside Water Cube: The Secrets to Smash World Records
I read the following conversation on a forum two days’ ago: A: Hi, I just “smashed” a world record in a semi-final contest. B: Oh, that’s great! Congratulations! Wish you a gold medal in the final. A:...
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How to purchase Olympic tickets for “sold out” events
Late last month, Beijing Olympic organizers proudly announced that the 6.8 million Olympic tickets were sold out. Yet empty seats are prominently featured on television broadcasts, even for such...
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Olympics Controversy – Misunderstanding China – Part I: Why It’s Easy For...
Disclaimer: “I am here to bridge the gap. Not to hate. Not to love. Not to be biased. Only honesty.” After seeing and hearing many of the critical comments made from so many Americans on newspapers,...
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No Escape Beijing Olympics 2008: The Olympification of the Streets
Think the games are confined to the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube? Well think again, outside of China the Olympics might be confined to your TV set or your computer screen, but not so here in Beijing....
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Google 2008 Olympics Logos and China Basketball Win
Chinese basketball fans are elated over the China men’s team 59-55 victory over Germany. Looks like the triple play of Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, and Sun Yue are keeping China in the running for a...
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Reactions to Liu Xiang and the nature of Chinese national pride
Guest post from Shanghai-based Xiaodi Zhang, product management executive at eBay and co-founder of HopStix, a new China travel review site for sharing about food and travel. Also posted on the HopStix...
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Blogger Sky Canaves Shows Exploding Olympics Lunchbox
Sky Canaves, lead blogger of Wall Street Journal’s China Journal blog, highlights the ingenious solution to the lack of food options at the Olympic Green. Too bad the solution results in an exploding...
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More than just adding oil (加油)
Photo originally found on Mop here. “Add fuel?” “Let’s go?” “Olé! Olé! Olé?” “Come on?” One of the quirkier news stories that has come out of the Beijing Olympics is how to translate the ubiquitous...
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What next? China in the post-Olympics age
From The Independent’s slideshow of Olympic photographs. Now that the Olympics are over, the foreign media and China observers are all quick to speculate about what will happen in the post-Olympic...
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Social media friends’ reactions to China due to the Olympics
photo courtesy rich115 on Flickr I asked my friends on Facebook and also my social-media addicted FriendFeed “friends” whether they felt more negative or positive about China as a result of the...
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