Imagine that you are a visitor to China and you wish to talk to a friend who is not right near you. Imagine the volume of sounds that are all around you: others calling to each other, cell phones ringing, the chatter of friends and you want to speak to your friend across the road. What do you do? You use hand gestures to agree on who should go over to the other side of the streets. This can...
Chinese antiques shop talk can carry on about many subjects, but the amazing changes that many people can remember is the change in the Stalinist China. The glorious leader was Chairman Mao whose followers where hundreds of millions of Chinese people. Today they are pouring into towns for the factory jobs that keep being built. We read that China is down to its last few hundred million people...
Chinese antiques shop thinking is not at the top of any to-do list in downtown Shenzhen these days. Shenzhen, beautifully located by the sea near Hong Kong, was the first Special Economic Zone, and has created a magnificent new mega city that produces enormous volumes of luxury products. No autos or microwaves to the world from Shenzhen, only name brand famous. Shenzhen\'s burst of success in...
Chinese antiques shop knowledge is that there is one Mongolian people, and they are the northern neighbors of the Chinese, who finally built a wall to keep them out. Across east Asia there are many variants of peoples with these Chinese like features, so unlike the Indian or Persian body type south and west of the Himalaya Mountains. You meet the Oriental personality east of the mountain passes...
New tower building destined to have small shop people nearby as calm zones. So Chinese antiques shop keepers would gape in awe from their small sales stall in small enclaves left in areas of Shanghai. They have found this allows the resident or tourist to have a sense of the flavor of what Shanghai was once like. These areas are very popular and have food stalls, popular at lunch and supper,...
Chinese antigues shop thinking has us whittling by the stove but taking turns reading from some history book. We see that the Boxer Rebellion broke out in 1900, and that it was due to frustration of Chinese over decades of being treated as the servant in their own nation. In the past half century China had been forced, against western firepower, to sign a series of treaties that demeaned China,...
Chinese medicine has evolved over thousands of years. One major difference between medicine in the east and the west is that the west treats the specific ailment and the east treats the whole body to keep that harmony and balance. Herbal medicine has also been associated with feng shui as together they are said to be the yin and yang in their way. The herbal medicine was central to good health...
Feng Shui, which you pronounce fung shway, grew out of the teachings of the legendary philosopher Lao Szu, also known as Laozi. It was actually the words of Lao Tsu that this physical mastery of the body became as vital as that of the mind. Feng shui means wind and water. Lao Szu concentrated on harmony with that which is around us and that extends to all elements of existence: we are a small...
As if a book from a Chinese antiques shop, the myth of Chairman Mao has classic Communist ideology, in that the dear leader is usually glorified as one with super human powers. Mao Zedong did it from the Long March and through his life, and even in death his body is almost given sacred honors. But several recent academic studies of the glorious leader show defects in his personality and...
A wise Chinese antiques shop dealer could tell you much about Chinese Mings and things, and so much about each regime or emperor through his, or figures of Confucious. But if you were to talk about modern politics you might encounter some understandable hesitation to talk so freely. So we will. Hu Jintao was a top honor student who excelled at every task he was given. And for the world that is...
