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...been part of the economic fabric in China since the country began reopening for business in 1978. And though no one has good statistics on exactly how many are now working in China, suffice to say there are so many that they tend to lump one another into an alphabet soup of classifications. There are: ABCs (American-born Chinese); NCAs (native Chinese Americans-those born in Taiwan, Hong Kong or elsewhere in the diaspora); and even, Shu jokes, "ABAs-Americans born in America, who just happen to be Chinese." They all come to China for obvious reasons: cultural familiarity, language...
...unless you're really bringing something to the table." And with China's growth still at a breakneck pace, "there are more and more people with more and more skills. It's already happening." Who knows, a few more years and there may be another acronym added to the alphabet soup: CASH-Chinese Americans who Stayed Home...
...make any movies about me, though, since I was eliminated in round two of the New York City qualifying spelling bee and never made it to nationals. After winning my district spelling bee, I dutifully studied the PAIDEIA book of words until letters swam in my head like alphabet soup. To this day, I still don’t know what PAIDEIA stands for, but I studied it anyway, visualizing words as my teachers had advised. The day of the bee, my parents beamed with pride. My entire sixth grade class took a field trip to watch me represent...
...SANK HIS BATTLESHIP Spain's Philip II didn't impress England's Elizabeth I, who said she couldn't "fear a man who took 10 years a-learning of his alphabet." Her ships humiliated his armada...
...Indian Star TV and Disney changed their programming from dubbed Western cartoons to original, local content, their popularity shot up. The Virgin team believes that Indian myths and folklore have legs outside the country. This summer, Kapur will unveil a comic book called Snake Woman that takes place in Alphabet City in Manhattan. "Most people will never realize that they are reading a story that has its origins in a 10,000-year-old Indian myth," he says. Cross-border animation can have tricky moments. Sander Schwartz, president of Warner Bros. animation division - part of the Time Warner corporation that...