(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 [...]
This Tuesday, arriving at Chinese class, we were informed by Lin that the class is going to be special. Aside from the fact that it's the last week of school, we were informed that we are about to have some visitors - reports from the Israeli extremely-popular channel 2. The reporters were doing a story [...]
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, [...]
Lots of tools outthere to help you in your Chinese studies, most of them are free. Of all the tools I’ve used so far in my Chinese studies, there’s one that really stands out - Wenlin.
True, it is a very expensive piece of software (free demo here), but… here’s a list of reasons why Wenlin [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
