Taiwanese universities and NCKU branding : Improvement Rare stamp : China’s “The entire nation is red” but Taiwan is white The Taiwan “Olympics” - Article for Israeli Calcalist Love Kaohsiung Music Festival at Sizihwan : A Night of Old Taiwanese Songs
Rare stamp : China’s “The entire nation is red” but Taiwan is white 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
Tong Hua by Guang Liang (Fairy-tale 童话 by Michael Wong 光良) is an unbelievably popular song among basic Chinese class teachers and students. It was there in all the Chinese schools I attended, and it’s quite obvious why - it’s easy to understand, it’s simple to follow, it’s touching and melodic.
The NCKU Chinese Language school has been holding a KTV [...]
Forgive me father, for I have sinned. It has been over one semester since I last touched Chinese and over a year since I last had a decent Chinese class (no, Chinese classes in Israel don’t count). Honest to god, I can hardly manage anything in Chinese. I know that I know things, I can [...]
What are the best research institutes in Asia and how do those compare to other universities around the world? Is Asian academic research different than that of the "west"? Where is Asian research going?
Being interested in Asian academics this past year, I’ve noticed major differences in the way research is perceived in Asia as opposed [...]
Google’s China presence is growing with new China services for their local Guge coming out often. Google China (GuGe) has just released Google Pinyin, a Chinese IME to simplify typing in Pinyin to output Chinese characters.
I think anybody using the default Windows Chinese IME has felt it’s a very frustrating tool, and most of my Chinese/Taiwanese friends [...]
I haven’t seen any announcements or mentions of this in either Chinese-related or IT-related blogs, but it seems that Google Translate is finally BETA testing Traditional Chinese, which is used in Taiwan, HK and some other Chinese communities outside China.
Although Altavista’s Babelfish has been providing this service for a while now, it always felt [...]
Most of the courses that I took in the last semester were brilliant. Sagiv’s Cultures and Organizations was an in depth analysis into the complications of cross-cultural psychology, Kogan’s Urban Society in Contemporary China - Changes was a unique journey through modern China, Pinnes’ China 1917-1978 was an extraordinary overview of the most amazing [...]
