globalization

“Donut-shaped Jewish bread” — Bagels Hot Commodity in China

theforeignexpert — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:22:00 -0600

A bagel is one of the last things you'd expect to find in the kind of isolated regions where I travel in my work as a photographer of indigenous peoples -- which is a problem, because I love bagels and suffer if a week goes by without one. But on a recent expedition, I was driving through remote northwestern China photographing the Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking people who for centuries have lived on their land, oblivious while international borders changed around them. I pulled the car over at a street market in a rural village outside the city of Kashgar near the Pakistani border.
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China Supertrends

Jason Inch — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:41:53 -0500

China Supertrends is a business news and economic trend blog focusing on new developments in mainland China. It is also the reader forum for the new book, Supertrends of Future China, by James K Yuann and Jason Inch.
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Blogging Beijing - The Seattle Times

Daniel Beekman — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:47:49 -0500

The 2008 Summer Olympics will punctuate three decades of development and test China's global legitimacy. They've already transformed the way millions of people think and live. Seattleite and Fulbright researcher Daniel Beekman brings you Beijing - before the Games begin

Shenzhen Undercover

mgms35 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:02:53 -0600

A Chinese-American's journey to understand China: cultural insights, Johnny Walker, politicking and toys ... all while attempting to blend into the background