(This is the third and last part to a post started here and continued here)
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After the speech by the Chinese ambassador and the big shots from the US and China it was time for the Israeli team to take over and start all the fun.
First up was a person I would love to take [...]

(This is the second part to a post started here)
Western arrogance and misconceptions about the Chinese are everywhere, forming clichés that are downright absurd. Like the trend of the so-called Chinese medicine and Chinese wisdom that everybody quotes and acts upon even though it has nothing to do with Chinese culture. A funny one that [...]

Well hidden from outsiders' eyes I was able to spot another seminar from the HUJI Institute of International Relations called – "The rise of China into the world's agenda – Challenges and Implications" with an interesting title for the main lecture "China bashing in the US". Not knowing what it's going to be about, [...]

(Previous post about the first day of the conference can be found here)
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After spending the night over at my friend’s house out in the countryside (Givat Coach), I drove back to Tel Aviv for the second day of the Tel Aviv University far-east conference.
I got there just in time for a panel called “Food and [...]

It's the first time I got to really experience what Asian studies are all about. It's not all studying Chinese/Japanese and hearing history, after all
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I arrived a bit late, after a long high-tech style lunch in Hertzelia Pituach's Odeon with a friend who – as other friends before him – has failed to [...]