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Now that’s a vintage…9000-year old Chinese recreated in Delaware

Jim “Beijing” Boyce called my attention to this piece in National Geographic : A Delaware brewer with a penchant for exotic drinks recently concocted a beer similar to one brewed in China some 9,000 years ago. Sam Calagione of the Dogfish Head... ...full story at Granite Studio

from Granite Studio on Mon, Jun 08 2009

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06 May 08 visit Delaware Supports the Beijing Olympics!  »  YouTube videoA group of students and professionals from the University of Delaware travelled to NY to join a rally in support of the Beijing Olympics. It was a great day with good friends and positive message!
21 Aug 08 visit More than just adding oil  »  CN Reviews “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 Chinese cheer 加油 (jiāyó...
25 Jun 07 visit China: Poster: I’ll Be Watching You  »  Global Voices Wang Xiao feng is producing a video movie called “I’ll be watching you” or “Where are you” or literal translation “Women hiding everywhere” (十面埋婦). He called for help in his blog for poster design. With...
05 Jan 09 visit NYT Reminds Us Westerners Not Much Better Than Chinese  »  CN Reviews Richard @ The Peking Duck, one of my long-time RSS subscriptions, recently linked to a New York Times’ piece titled “The End of the Financial World as We Know It” written by Michael Lewis, blessing it as “the single best...
29 Aug 08 visit China: Chinese Lies  »  Global Voices C. W. Hayford from Chinese History group blog goes into various literature sources for discussing the “Chinese character” in relation to “face” and “lie”. It gives some background about the various Olympic...
03 Jan 07 visit Toys “Я” Us in Chinese  »  Sinosplice I remember not long ago I was wondering how Toys “Я” Us would write their name in Chinese. I recently got my answer in an ad at People’s Square subway station: So the obvious parallel is instead of the “R” bein...

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