QUESTION: What will you get out of the this resource?

This resource is designed to give you the heads up and helpful tips you will need before you go. It isn't anything like you can imagine. Important tips and facts can save your life and help you navigate the culture which isn't going to be easy. Example: pack a face mask because the pollution is terrible. 

A website is alive and can be updated on a daily basis when something new happens.  Draw on our varied resources to learn about the current culture and history of China.​​

By way of an introduction, we have China, a country whose culture dates back 4,200 to 5,000 years ago. And we know that in paleolithic times Asian people began traveling out of Mongolia into Russia, crossing over to Alaska, then Canada, on down into America. At the moment science believes a mix of Asian and European People become First Nation People.

 

The Han vs 56 Ethnic Tribes

 

China has 56 Ethnic Tribes (Atayal tribe, one of Taiwan's 14 native ethnic groups) and America has 562 First Nation tribal entities recognized and eligible for funding and services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs by virtue of their status as Indian tribes re: Section 104 of the Act of November 2, 1994 (Pub. L. 103-454; 108 Stat. 4791, 4792. These tribes guard their, territories, languages, history, folklife: songs and stories. The tribes protect their culture and don't want to assimilate, which makes governance a real problem.

Oh The Irony

America owes China a lot of money.
The Treasury Department estimates that American debt to China is approximately $889 billion.  ​That is more than $10,000 in debt for the average American working family. Asian People become First Nation People and now the Chinese own America. What goes around, comes around.

China's communist rulers are now the world's most powerful and wealthy political party, but China is just a cell phone swarm away from revolution in certain regions, with a Nobel Peace Prize to a jailed Chinese activist.

“Therefore I say: Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.” ~ Sun Tzu

Do You Believe Asian Kids are the Smartest?

​2010 Shanghai Kids are the Smartest in the World!
And Even if Communist China controls all media 24/7 360 people can read!
China's newspaper circulation surpassed 50 billion, rising 13.9 percent year on year and continuing to rank first in the world. 25 mainland dailies stood among the top 100 dailies in the world in 2010. Chinese President Hu Jintao meets with Fox News Owner Rupert Murdock.
“The Chinese discovered that Rupert was a real emperor who controlled everything himself.” [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

Rupert Murdock friend of the Koch Brothers also helped launch the Web site of the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, The People's Daily. He helped the communists develop a television encryption system, which will doubtless prove useful in suppressing dissent in the future. His Chinese version of MySpace obeys all communist censorship laws, even including a built-in link for reporting "inappropriate information" to the authorities. And to smooth the skids on his new ventures, he signed employment contracts with the son of the national propaganda chief and the leadership committee of the Communist Youth League.
Oh, and he also does business with the communist nation of Cuba, which harbors one of the many tax havens where he has hidden cash to avoid American tax laws. This powerful American friend of communists is, of course, Rupert Murdoch — the man who signs Glenn Beck's paychecks.
“His courtship has made him the Chinese leadership's favorite foreign media baron. He has dined with former President Jiang Zemin in the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing and repeatedly met other members of the ruling Politburo in Beijing, New York and London. Television channels affiliated with Mr. Murdoch beam more programming into China than any other foreign media group.”

2010 MBA Alert - Doing Business in China: - Rupert Murdoch gives up. He will sell a controlling stake in three Chinese TV stations and a movie library to China Media Capital, a $732 million private equity fund that was formed in 2009 with investments from the Shanghai Media Group and the China Development Bank. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

 

 

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METHODOLOGY: When I started this project in 2009 I was living in Shanghai, China. I began reading newspapers, and living with media censorship. It was the 60th year anniversary of the Cultural Revolution. I culled the online information and aggregated currated links that citizens would read everyday about culture, law, economics, government, history, current events, art etc. the context through which I would understand how the world worked in and through my experience living in China 2009.

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