I don’t really know if the Israelis reading this blog are really that interested in the far-east, but I’ll try and promote this anyhow.
The far-east department at the Hebrew University will be doing an open Far-East day, with main focus on Chinese and Japanese culture. The day will take place on the 22nd of May, [...]
Not very surprising, but I like to listen to Chinese/Taiwanese music lately, so Koish.com or Yekaroo.com are usually playing at the background while I’m in my room. Although we keep doing the same songs in Chinese class, I just can’t get enough of them, even the annoying ones.
I enjoy Chinese/Taiwanese rock bands, the cliche` popcharts, [...]
Foreigners living in Taiwan love to joke about the mess Taiwan has with how to romanize Chinese. Travel guides make jokes about how a single street in Taiwan can offer three completely different looking names, from the three different methods used to romanize Chinese. While I was in Bangkok, trying to adjust to the fact [...]
Two months before coming to Israel, while in Taiwan, I got an Email from a friend I previously worked with but haven’t been in touch with much ever since - Ori, saying that he’s been following my blog and that he feels something similar towards the east. When I came here, and found out [...]
After so many years, it’s still shocking for me to see how big organizations work, or rather - not work but still pull it off somehow. It doesn’t matter how big a believer you are in some big organization or in the products and projects that this organization is involved with, you still face the [...]
(This post is part 2 to an article posted here)
It's not only that Israel has more Chinese characters around and more Asian people in the streets, it's also that China and Taiwan are more widely known and discussed around Israel. "The Marker", Israel's best newspaper's economics section, reports on the Chinese and Taiwnaese economics daily. [...]
There’s been a decline in things that I’m willing to discuss in this blog and I’m not really sure why that is. I’m more careful and reserved, I think more about the way I put things, and I don’t think that’s a good thing.
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Yesterday was another one of those days in which I couldn’t make [...]
Up there on the top list of questions people ask me about my Taiwan visit is the question of - “what’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen while you were in Taiwan?”.
I’ll have to be honest with you, I don’t like questions like that, questions that sound like “so what was your favorite place?” “what was [...]
