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- The Diamond: Its Total Personality
Dec 4, 2008
The study of the gemologist or the jeweler is a mystery to most of us, and yet it need not be so.
Category: Beauty
- Be As One With Your Diamond
Dec 4, 2008
Over the ages precious gems topped by the illustrious diamond have held a place of special merit by people whether in their village, town or city.
Category: Jewelry
- Hand Gestures In China: What Not To Do
Dec 3, 2008
China has evolved many hand gestures, and suggestions have been that the large population creates a need for a sub language.
Category: Society and Culture
- Revolutionary China 1950; Executive China 2008,
Dec 3, 2008
Only taking control of China in 1949, Mao found his first crisis at the Yalu River in North Korea. There in 1951 General Douglas MacArthur had his...
Category: Society and Culture
- China's Shenzhen Special Economic Zone
Dec 3, 2008
Shenzhen, formerly a quiet sea town near Hong Kong, is now China's showpiece special economic zone. It was also the first.
Category: World Affairs
- Mongolia: Inner and Outer, Pale Remnants of Terror
Dec 2, 2008
There is one Mongolian people. There are two Mongolias. During recent centuries both of Mongolias neighbors Russia and China have kept it down and...
Category: Society and Culture
- China To Build Tallest Tower As Fiscal Stimulus
Dec 2, 2008
In the midst of market slowdowns around the world, the government of China has announced the construction of the tallest office tower in Shanghai.
Category: Society and Culture
- China's Twentieth Century - What a Hundred Years
Dec 2, 2008
China entered the Twentieth Century a defeated and divided nation of small stature. How that has changed.
Category: Society and Culture
- Chinese Herbal Medicines Over The Centuries
Dec 2, 2008
Chinese medicine has evolved very dfferently than medical practice in the west,where we treat the wound and they treat the body.
Category: Yoga
- Feng Shui, Opposing Views In Public
Dec 2, 2008
Feng Shui is a way of looking at your liife, on how you organize your office, your bedroom, home.
Category: Society and Culture
- China's Chairman Mao: Savior Or Backward Leaper
Nov 28, 2008
The veils of mystery keep being pulled away from the myth of Chairman Mao, who in 1949 chased Chiang Kai Shek off mainland China.
Category: Politics
- China Today: Hu Jintao. Supreme Leader
Nov 26, 2008
Hu Jintao has become the supreme leader of China today by excelling at his studies, and then each task he was given on his way up the heirarchy.
Category: Society and Culture
- China: Border Ethnic Minority Issues
Nov 22, 2008
In each corner of the modern China are people who have always been there and are different from the center and thrive on that difference.
Category: Society and Culture
- China: The Merit Of Saving Face
Nov 22, 2008
To Chinese people, the most important aspect of relationships is in saving, or having face. To personally face some public humility would cause a...
Category: History
- China And Its History Of Dynasties
Nov 22, 2008
A dynasty is taken here as the period of time that one family or close group control a nation. China has had many dynasties, good and bad.
Category: Politics
- Buddhism, Tibet, The Dalai Lama And China Today
Nov 22, 2008
Buddhism came to China from India around AD 284, the route was up and around the Himalayas.
Category: Society and Culture
- China and Buddhism - The Way We Were
Nov 22, 2008
The followers of Buddha followed the Silk route that wound west under the Himalayan Moutains, until further west there are passaged through the...
Category: Society and Culture
- Taoism In China - Its Historic Influence
Nov 22, 2008
There are four major relgions in China: ancestor worship was the first, and then in the Sixth Century BC lived Lao Tsu. The next centuries brought...
Category: Society and Culture
- China: The Way of the Tao in Today's China
Nov 22, 2008
The Way of the Tao comes to us from Lao tsu, a philosopher who lived in the sixth century BC.
Category: Religion and Spirituality
- China's Animals: Dragon to Panda
Nov 21, 2008
There is no place like a Panda's home base. That base is shrinking each year with poaching and logging, yet efforts to rebuild and renew allow hope.
Category: Environment
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