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Is Going Into Finance Good for Society?

Edit The Atlantic 25 May 2016
The title of the financial historian William Goetzmann’s new book is hard to argue with. Money Changes Everything ... In the fallout from the Great Recession, it’s been commonplace to vilify those working in the financial-services industry ... Its innovations have made the growth of human civilization possible ... Lam ... And in the records of the grand historian Sima Qian in China, he wrote about the wealthiest people and how they made their money ... ....

How President Xi Is Facing Pushback From Within the Communist Party

Edit Huffington Post 24 Mar 2016
As China scholar Andrew Nathan wrote in an online discussion about the post on ChinaFile.. The CCDI document ... is an act of remonstrance ... The Chinese text can be found here ... 'A thousand yes-men cannot equal one honest advisor,' a saying found in 'The Biography of Lord Shang' in Sima Qian's Historical Records, was the Warring States period advisor Zhao Liang's admonishment to the Qin chief advisor Shang Yang ... Confucius said ... -- Lei Si* ... ....

Let’s go to the museum / Huge book collection a window to discovery

Edit The Japan News 01 Mar 2016
Even just looking at their spines left me feeling overwhelmed ... The facility stores a large number of valuable books and materials, such as Sima Qian’s Records of the Grand Historian, designated as a national treasure; the Yongle Encyclopedia, which was compiled in the Chinese Ming dynasty of the 14th to 17th centuries; and as many as 77 versions of The Travels of Marco Polo ... Slide 1 of 2. PrevNext ... The Yomiuri Shimbun ... Toyo Bunko Museum ... ....

An eastern renaissance of art in food

Edit China Daily 05 Feb 2016
"For the people, food is heaven," said Sima Qian, an historian from the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24). Today, these words still ring true. The Chinese people's respect and passion for food is firmly entrenched in the cultural landscape, with a culinary scene that reflects the vast geographical footprint of the world's most populous country. Pauline D. Loh offers a view from the table ... Best known dishes of Huaiyang cuisine. ...   ....

Journey to the spicy west

Edit China Daily 29 Jan 2016
"For the people, food is heaven," said Sima Qian, an historian from the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24). Today, these words still ring true. The Chinese people's respect and passion for food is firmly entrenched in the cultural landscape, with a culinary scene that reflects the vast geographical footprint of the world's most populous country. Pauline D. Loh offers a view from the table ... In fact, mala sums it all up ... Hotpot ... Mapo doufu ... ....

South China's food touches the heart

Edit China Daily 22 Jan 2016
"For the people, food is heaven," said Sima Qian, a historian in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24). Today, these words still ring true ... Pauline D. Loh offers a view from the table ... ....

Food from the Forbidden City

Edit China Daily 15 Jan 2016
"For the people, food is heaven," according to Sima Qian, a historian in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24). Today, these words still ring true. The Chinese respect and passion for food is firmly entrenched in the cultural landscape, creating a culinary scene that reflects the vast geographical footprint of the world's most populous country. Pauline D. Loh offers a view from the table ... Noodles were staples, as were steamed breads....

Noodles - strands of history

Edit China Daily 08 Jan 2016
"For the people, food is heaven" said historian Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 24). Today, these words still ring true. The Chinese respect and passion for food is firmly entrenched in the cultural landscape, with a culinary scenery that reflects the vast geographical footprint of the world's most populous country. Pauline D Loh offers a view from the table. The Central Plains is where it all began ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... Next week ... ....

BPA Opens Innovation Academy 2015-11-23 (Port of Busan)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Nov 2015
(Source. Port of Busan) ... The Innovation Academy will be opened for the first time ... 26 presented by professor KIM Young-su on Sima Qian, author of 'Shiji,' the second session will be held in November presented by LEE Yoon-su, President of KOPLA, q-and classic music class by CHO Hee-chang, the third session will be held in December by poet JEONG Ho-sung ... Contact ... distributed by ... (noodl....

Story of China's great historian Sima Qian staged at Capital Theater

Edit CNTV 01 Oct 2015
Cruelly dismissed from the service of an emperor, he became a servant of all humanity ... ....

The magical tattoo artists of Cambodia

Edit South China Morning Post 27 Jun 2015
He has a monkey on a chain. And an owl - also chained. Teven Say, a master of magical tattoos, strokes both of his familiars and regards me with a proud gaze. He is sitting in a large shed in Siem Reap, Cambodia ... I start sweating ... That was 20 years ago." ... Their tattoos are mentioned by Sima Qian, China's grand historian of the Han dynasty, who wrote, in the first century BC, that they "cut their hair and tattooed their bodies" ... ....

Lessons on Laboring, Loving and Leaving

Edit Huffington Post 08 Jun 2015
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." -Marie Curie. Is there something similar we have to consider when caring for others as they birth and as they die?. As a birth companion, I often witness the relationship between care and fear ... STORIES & FEAR ... Stories reflect our worldview and expectations ... It opens up with a proverbial statement from Sima Qian, c ... ....

10 UNESCO World Heritage sites with wild back stories

Edit CNN 03 Feb 2015
Its construction, which took place over 38 years, was documented by the contemporary historian Sima Qian, whose outlandish claims that 700,000 workers were mobilized to complete it actually seemed justified when the 20-square-mile necropolis was eventually discovered ... Qian also claimed that mercury was used to simulate the hundred rivers of China, ......
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