Word: ning
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...more expensive Dells are closing the gap. Foreign-made refrigerators are displacing Haier as the favorite in China's kitchens. Chinese dress in their baggiest jeans to sit at Starbucks, which has opened 100 outlets and plans hundreds more. China's biggest seller of athletic shoes, Li Ning, recently surrendered its top position to Nike, even though Nike's shoes--upwards of $100 a pair--cost twice as much. The new middle class "seeks Western culture," says Zhang Wanli, a social scientist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "Nike was smart because it didn't enter China selling usefulness...
...increase is "very encouraging news," says Li Ning, a communications officer at WWF China?especially since attempts to boost the panda population in captivity have been getting increasingly desperate. Efforts by Chinese researchers?from attempting to mass-produce the animals by cloning to encouraging intercourse using sex dolls and pornographic videos?have had little success; there are still only 161 pandas in captivity worldwide, according...
What's the secret of successful cooking? Watch the details. Times and temperatures are very important to the result. If you follow the recipe carefully, everything falls into place. I don't like to treat people as ning-nongs, though. I don't put down every little step. When you cook, you've got to think for yourself...
...Harvard Film Archive (HFA) continues its series on Ning Ying, a Chinese director who has gained worldwide acclaim for her humorous, realist portraits of contemporary China. I Love Beijing is the final film in her award-winning Beijing trilogy and focuses on a cabbie who maintains a second life as a would-be Casanova. 9 p.m. Tickets $8/$6 students...
...titles, according to Giouw Jui-Chian, regional director of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in Asia. The first-and for years the de facto-source of foreign tunes in China was da-kou. "Before, the only way people knew foreign music was through books," says Ou Ning, a Guangzhou-based pop culturato whose 1999 book on Beijing bands was dedicated to the Saw-Gash Generation. "But with dakou, we could hear...