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China Has Changed; The Chinese Haven’t

Has China changed? Companies bet millions on the answer, but it’s the wrong question. You should ask if Chinese have changed. China has changed; the Chinese haven’t. Amazing changes! New politico/economic system. New laws, social structures, build... ...full story at Success Stories

from Success Stories on Thu, May 07 2009

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04 Dec 08 visit Synphony N.1 "Eroica" (Changed) - Tin Whistle  »  YouTube videoA piece of this famous tune by Tan Dun played with my tin whistle. I've changed the synphony to make it more easy to play but the original is great!! If I'm not wrong it's played in the medal assignment to the olympic games of Beijing 2008. Tan Dun is...
27 Apr 09 visit The Tragic Story of Chang Yu Sheng  »  China Expat     A rock n’ roller who changed the lives of millions of young people, only to lose his own. Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Sam Cooke, Ian Curtis, and other stars who changed the face of popular music before dying young are a well-kno...
05 Sep 07 visit Something’s changed (if you look hard enough)  »  Beijing Newspeak My first shift after a week and a half back in the UK seemed to be sticking rigidly to the post-holiday cliché. Nothing’s changed. My sole colleague, who had been working in my absence to the tune of only his own head banging against the ...
20 Oct 09 visit Video: Chinese people can't tell you what Communism means  »  Shanghaiist When they changed over the system from Maoist Communism to "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" (as Hu Jintao put it during the last 60th anniversary parade), the CCP apparently decided not to tell anyone what the C in their name really meant. At...
28 Jul 09 visit China: One-Child Policy Heading for a Revision  »  Global Voices According to Time magazine, the one-child policy, a cornerstone of contemporary China, will be changed when word got out late last week that Shanghai was encouraging couples to have additional offspring. For three decades, millions of Chinese parents have...
11 Aug 08 visit Learning to slam dunk  »  James Reynolds First one Chinese player dunked the ball into the net. Then another. Then another. The way the Chinese men's basketball team warmed up for their Olympic match against the USA tonight revealed a huge amount about how China has changed in recent...

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