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20 May 09

The China Beat: Divine Justice

in modern, high-tech nations like Taiwan, where people rely on such rites to deal with problems that are not readily addressed in the courtroom (particularly family tensions)

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19 May 09

Report: Taiwan Working on Top Secret Blackout Bomb | Danger Room

bombs work by sprinkling a cloud of chemically treated carbon fibers over power supplies, causing them to short-circuit, but without killing people.

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JapanFocus

Ming conviction that Taiwan was not part of this domain was rooted in the traditional conception of China as a territory bounded by natural geographic features

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The China Beat: Magic Lanterns

the Taiwan Lantern Festival is both a major celebration and big business

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03 Apr 08

The New Blood in Chinatown - New York Times

Despite the Wu family's Cantonese origins, it was the pro-China Fujianese leaders who sat with the Mayor, a feat that crystallized the group's rise to power in a community where symbolism often speaks louder than words.

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Chinatown's Fujianese Get a Statue - New York Times

''There's a stereotype that only Fujianese sell drugs, and we need to set an example,''

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Honoring Lin Zexu: Politician, Activist, Man of Fuzhou

Politically, the statue of the mainland, anti-colonialist Lin Zexu challenges the pro-Taiwanese supporters who rally around the statue of Confucius.

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08 Jan 08

Chou Chiener: Nanguan Music

Nanguan´s gongceipo consists of four elements, namely beat, pitch, fingering and song text (if any). These are written in columns arranged from right to left on the page, like traditional Chinese writing.

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20 Oct 07

Big Red Checkbook

"That is simply today's world. The modern world. The globalized world. I'm not sure we can completely blame the Chinese for that."

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04 Sep 07

Taiwan in the Chinese Imagination, 17th–19th Centuries

by author of Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683–1895 (2004)

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Qingming boosts Taiwan - Fujian Traffic

authorities also warned tomb-sweepers to abandon outdated practices, like burning token paper money. - Ed. BWAHAHAHAHA! Impotence is funny. Quanzhou smells like nothing but burning paper these days.

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05 Jan 07

The Rise and Fall of Dutch Taiwan, 1624–1662: Cooperative Colonization and the Statist Model of European Expansion

Tonio Andrade attempts to answer the Needham Question by examining Dutch Taiwan, arguing differing methods of collecting revenue (trade vs. land taxation) helped or hindered expansionism.

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02 Dec 06

Fujian | Digging for victory | Economist.com

Every time the central government picks a new area for development, Fujian is not in it. But in recent months, with some clever rebranding, the province has been on a roll. Salvation, it hopes, lies in Taiwan, just across a 125-160 kilometre-wide (78-100

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09 Oct 06

CCTV International - Cultural relics across China

Quanzhou gave a Confucian initiation stone to Tainan, and Xinjiang opens another grotto. My kinda news.

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