Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Taiwanese Israel information resources and a Taiwanese visit to Israel

Every once in a while I find another Taiwanese perspective about Israel showing some of the personal connections the Taiwanese have towards Israel. Surprisingly, I keep meeting Taiwanese that show interest in information about Israel, even here in Tainan, usually due to their Christian beliefs, most of them telling me that they would feel like there’s almost no information available. I agree, but maybe reading-watching other people’s experience might help them them with that, and so, here are some of the Taiwanese-Israeli connections I found so far that offer some information or community regarding Israel in Mandarin/Taiwanese:

The Taiwanese perspective on Israel : Taiwan’s “World’s Number 1″ visits Israel (Mandarin TV program)
Ruby - A Taiwanese Blog about Taiwanese life …

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

East Asia and Business Studies 2007

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 political happenings of the 20th century China, and Mandarin Chinese, well, you know - it still is a frustrating fun challenge.
As the new semester at the Hebrew University is starting on the 25th, I’ve browsed through the selection of courses available for this semester to pick some what might be interesting for me to attend. I’m currently registered as …