Marriage markets are much less sinister than the idea sounds, and one made the news yesterday: “In China, panicked parents fish for mates.” We’ve made a few trips to Tianjin’s marriage market, which always has friendly crowds and makes a great place for language students to practice.
See photos of our personal encounters with Tianjin’s marriage market here, here, and here.
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Pronounced: chǒu wén
Literally: shameful/ugly/disgraceful news
Means: scandal
- 2010/03/03
If you stop to take a second look, it's quite obvious that much of Tianjin's glittering new (and expensive) apartment and office complexes are empty. Yet the building continues. This is happening all over China:
"China continues to build despite an excess of empty commercial real estate.
"Last year, approximately one out of every four square feet of commercial office space in Beijing were empty – about 100 million square feet of zombie space. All over town are dark buildings…
"It looks like growth. But it is zombie growth. People build bridges to nowhere rather than working for profit-making enterprises. Concrete is used to put up cities where no one lives."
- 2010/03/11
The contents of the greatest tomb in archeological history
From What's Inside Qin Shi Huang's Tomb?
"Qin Shi Huang ... ruled the largest unified kingdom the Far East had ever witnessed to that date – the very basis of Imperial China. In military power, economic strength and technical innovation, the Qin ... were all powerful.
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"Possessing a grossly swollen ego to match his achievements and status, Shi Huang ordered the construction of a staggeringly large and ornate tomb for himself outside the Qin capital of Xi’an, one that is said to have required hundreds of thousands of labourers to build.
"The tomb ... has not yet been explored – and perhaps may never be. If legend about what’s inside is true – and, incredibly, all evidence to date suggests it is – then the First Emperor’s mausoleum contains a wealth of treasures and adornments perhaps greater than any other in ancient history."
- 2010/03/09
“They hate you. But you are useful to them.”
In What Do They Really Think of Us Laowai?, a delegation member from a foreign NGO that has a longstanding good relationship with the Chinese gov. gets a staight answer.
- 2010/03/05
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