Everyone has a name, so does China. Then do you know how China got her name and what are her other names?
There are many theories around and people are still debating. One common explanation is that China got her name from china, or chinaware. In ancient time, one major export of China is china, so [...]

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Recently, we got a lot of spam comments, especially from 195.225.178.29. It is said that it’s a Ukraine IP. Fortunately, the Akismet Spam plugin worked fantastically and caught them all. Hope it will work better by changing .htaccess file.
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Here is an even older joke, first emerged in Internet at the beginning of this century. Many of them still hold true today.
Even if you’re totally full, if someone says they’re going to throw away the leftovers on the table, you’ll finish them.
You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the [...]

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These lines are passed around the Internet for quite a while. It is still funny to read now.
1. You’re at an expensive western restaurant and don’t even notice the guy at the next table yelling into his cell phone
2. You enjoy karaoke
3. You walk backwards in the park listening to a transistor radio
4. The China [...]

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Hong Zhang, PhD
In Chinese, there are two most common words corresponding to the English world “river”, one is Jiang （江）, the other is He （河). For example, the largest river in China is Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang. The second largest is called Yellow River, or Huang He. When you ask a Chinese what’s the [...]

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Starting from July 1, 2008, a new express train service will be in operation between Beijing and Tianjin, two major cities with population more than 10 millions each. The total travel time will be about 30minutes for a distance of 120 km (75miles). The top speed of the train will reach 350km/hr, the highest speed [...]

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Almost everyone knows that Yao Ming, the famous basketball star from Shanghai, is playing for Houston Rocket right now. Some people also can tell you that there are more Chinese players in NBA. For example, Wang Zhizhi, Ba Ter, Yi Jianlian, all have been or are playing in NBA. This [...]

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