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Watch Xiao Qiang’s “China’s Digital Revolution” Interview for BBC
Xiao Qiang is adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual collaborative China news website. Here he discusses the Chinese Government's approaches to the internet and the phenomenon of the "50 cent blogger".
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: U.S. destinations target affluent Chinese tourists
Hawaii, California and Las Vegas are among American tourist destinations vying fiercely for a vast and largely untapped new market segment: the Chinese tourist [...]
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China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: energy security pushes China into Wind Power
The Chinese government recently upgraded its wind installation capacity target for 2020 to 150 gigawatts from 100 gigawatts, representing a compound annual growth rate of 20% for accumulated wind-generation capacity, according to analysts Min Li and Wendy Wang at Yuanta Research {...]
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Watch George Smoot’s “The Design of the Universe” talk at TED
At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids -- got built this way [...]
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China Approves Disney Theme Park in Shanghai
After a courtship of about 20 years, the Walt Disney Company has won approval from the central government of China to build a Disneyland-style theme park in Shanghai, Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, said recently [...]
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Autodesk Assistance Program for Unemployed Designers, Engineers, and Architects gets featured in the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal has an article on how companies are offering career counseling to customers who've lost jobs during the recession, hoping to help old friends and win additional loyalty when the economy recovers [...]
Watch Daniel Libeskind’s “17 words of architectural inspiration” talk at TED
Daniel Libeskind builds on very big ideas. Here, he shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architecture -- raw, risky, emotional, radical -- and that offer inspiration for any bold creative pursuit [...]
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Watch Mae Jemison’s “A bold vision for teaching arts and sciences: together” talk at TED
Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one -- to create bold thinker [...]
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