asia in israel

Now in Israel - Chinese and Taiwanese fight over a Taiwan flag display in one small Israeli folk dance festival almost no one I know has heard of. Here’s from Taipei Times’  ”Dance turns nationalist at Israeli folkdance festival“:Chinese performers at an international folkdance festival in Israel touched off a diplomatic flap earlier this month by [...]
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To mark the 18th anniversary for the 1989 events, the Israeli Channel 8 aired an interesting documentary on the story of the man who was filmed opposing the tanks taking over Beijing. Ruth Kopeper, an Israeli TV critic for Haaretz, summarizes a strong critic of China and the supporting western societies based on the movie:[…] [...]
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Donuts. I’m been following Israeli newspapers for a long time, looking for Taiwan related articles that don’t have anything to do with China, and after over a year the first one I find is about Donuts. Donuts!It’s a bit hard to believe, but on the back on yesterday’s Haaretz was a big photo from Taipei [...]
 
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Every year, one of the Israeli universities holds the annual East Asia conference. This year, during the 6th and 7th of June, the 2007 6th annual East Asia conference was held at the Haifa university, covering various topics addressed by Israeli researchers, mainly about China and Japan. The previous 2006 conference was covered in “TAU Far-east conference : day 1” and “TAU [...]
 
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A "Doing Business in China" seminar was held at the Tel Aviv University (TAU) this week. Topics included "China-Israel business connections", "Chinese business culture", "How to start up a business in China", "Doing IT in China", "Farming technology for China" and "Diamond sales and marking in China". Unlike other business seminars on China in [...]
 
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In April, I wrote about Prof. Kenneth Lieberthal’s speech on "the fundamental forces and challenges shaping China’s future" at the Hebrew University as part of the opening ceremony for the new Louis Frieberg Center for Asian Studies.Finally, the whole lecture is available online. For those who didn’t attend the event, I highly recommend listening to Lieberthal’s [...]
 
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News travels fast. It’s quite extraordinary, really. I never thought that people from all over the world, some of whom I’ve never met, would take interest in what’s happening with me. So, yeah, it’s true. Taiwan has kindly awarded me the Taiwan scholarship for a 3 years degree, and I now have to choose between [...]
 
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The South Korean TV drama “My Lovely Sam Soon” (/”My name is Sam Soon”/내 이름은 김삼순/“סאם סון המתוקה”) is one of Asia’s most successful TV drama ever and it has finally made it to Israel with Hebrew subtitles. Aside from Anime series, I think this is the first Asian drama shown in Israeli TV, and [...]
 
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It’s difficult to understand how people perceive complex issues like love, sex, relationships, cheating, and it’s sometimes impossible to do that with someone from a different culture. Culture differences get a whole lot more complicated when there’s emotions involved, and that’s when misunderstandings can become very offending and hurtful.
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Jung Chang and Jon Halliday attended the conference at TAU Israel to discuss Mao and his influence on China, the Chinese people and the entire world. As the Mao book came out, the controversy over Mao was revived and the speakers at the conference demonstrated some of the debate that is still going on.In the [...]
 
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