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...China, one doesn't have to look far to see the country's commitment to renewable energy. In cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, rooftops are now covered with solar water heaters. On the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, towering white wind turbines are popping up where only cattle, sheep and herders on horseback once roamed. While coal consumption is expected to climb more than 3% annually for the next two decades, the government has also required that electrical companies add a significant amount of alternative energy to their portfolios. With the global economy languishing, China - which is not only...
...recent afternoon at the Shanghai Tianma Circuit race-car track, the 1,000-strong crowd was treated to the sight of one of the competitors - still dressed in his driver's jumpsuit - walking slowly past the officials' stand, one arm held aloft with the middle finger of his hand extended. "My only regret," he later wrote on his blog, "is that I couldn't show both fingers at the same time because I happened to be having a phone conversation...
Maislinger was asked to speak by Martin M. Wallner ’11, an Austrian student who participated in the program by working at the Center for Jewish Studies in Shanghai from...
Fourteen years later, Wallner became the first Austrian to complete his service in Shanghai, where there were over 20,000 Jewish refugees following World...
...loaned pieces are featured in the exhibition "Harmony and Integrity: The Yongzheng Emperor and His Times," and are on show at Taipei's National Palace Museum, www.npm.gov.tw, until Jan. 10, together with two pieces from the Shanghai Museum and 207 from the Taiwan vaults. While one doesn't want to read too much into it, the title's emphasis on unity will resonate with many, and Beijing's decision to have made this particular show the first to which it has lent pieces is probably no accident. Much of the lavish artwork produced under the Qing incorporated the varying artistic...