I ran into the Danwei blog by accident, through an article I've been forwarded about Muzi Mei (link). Muzi Mei was a sensation a few years back when the Chinese authorities have declared war on her blog detailing her sexual experiences, and DanWei has decided to just go over and chat with the girl, who [...]
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A few weeks back, during the Beijing Olympics, I wrote an article for an Israeli finance newspaper Calcalist about the upcoming Taiwanese Kaohsiung[...]
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The Taiwan “Olympics” - Article for Israeli Calcalist Love Kaohsiung Music Festival at Sizihwan : A Night of Old Taiwanese Songs Taiwan’s street food : the “food trucks” Vote for Michael Turton as the best Taiwan politics blogger Visiting Kaohsiung : Cheng Ching LakeChina
Israel at the Beijing Olympics : What do the Chinese think of Jews? Our medallists : Taiwan’s Chen Wei-ling and Israel’s Shahar Zubari Chinese perception of Israeli media coverage of the China Olympics More Sino Phobia : China Bashing in Israeli media Sino-Phobia continued : Israeli media bias against China(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 [...]
It makes perfect sense. I admit it, I could never quite understand why the rest of the world does it any other way. Take, for example. The graduation ceremony in America is right after the last exams of the last year. That’s not fun, is it? People are still excited about their graduation, people still [...]
5 Jun, 2006 in
Confrences by
Fili
(Written at 12:00pm)
A dilemma. There’s a conference held on a subject that you’re involved with professionally (link). It’s free, held at a luxurious sea-side hotel in Tel Aviv, and you heard that most of the people that you know through work are going to be there. Will you go?
My basic instinct, which was very hard [...]