Browsing Tag »China Media«

Leaning Towers of Beijing

December 16, 2007

Keel over the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Move aside, the Twin Towers of Kuala Lumpur. Here come the Twin Leaning Towers of Beijing. The new CCTV (China Central TV) building is one of the growing number of icons designed by international architects in the city of Beijing. I passed by this building almost every [...]

Ming Pao Monthly and Chinese Intellectual Tradition

December 14, 2007

I have been amazed by how much my reading habits have changed over the past two years. I no longer read hard copies of daily newspapers and magazines on a regular basis. Instead I subscribe to news feeds using the Google Reader. I scan through hundreds of articles electronically on a daily basis to imbibe the [...]