Israeli newspapers are all over the success of the Israeli headed Koolanoo group in China with the third largest social website called 360Quan. Koolanoo, in case you were wondering, means “all of us” in Hebrew, and I believe the whole thing actually started out with a Jewish social network cloned into Chinese. How bizarre.
360Quan [...]
Oh, this is exactly the example I was looking for. This week marks the first day of the first lunar month according to the Jewish biblical calendar, which means that Israelis will be celebrating their news years this Wednesday. Since two weeks ago, I’ve started receiving countless variations of "Happy New Year" messages from people [...]
Once - and you may dismiss it as an exaggeration. Twice - and you know something must be happening. It’s the second Channel 2 story about the Chinese language studies trend in Israel, and this time it’s by the somewhat prestigious Uvda show. Although this story is also lacking depth, it does have some interesting [...]
In almost all of my class discussions there is a general assumption that Democracy is what’s good for China. Especially when it comes to discussing urban China and the modern changes in society the question of whether this is good for bringing democracy to China always comes up, usually accompanied with the hope that China [...]
I’m overwhelmed with joy when I see a Taiwan promotion around Israel. Most Israelis I talk to about Taiwan, my Asian home, either confuse it with Thailand or they have no idea what and where Taiwan is. That has a lot to do with the fact that Taiwan is rarely promoted or discussed in Israel [...]
This next piece is from one of the few Israelis writing about life in China from a blog "How to raise an Israeli family in China without knowing Chinese". It was so funny and interesting (and a bit nasty, Israeli style) that I just had to translate it to English :
Ni Hao, Ni Hao, [...]
