Saturday, December 5, 2009

Zhu Zhu Pets:Washington Post,Dec.5,09 page A1

"Zhu" in Pin Yin system of romanization of Chinese means Greetings to offer good wishes.("Zhu ni hao") as an example.

Lifelike toy hamsters(Cangshu)called Zhu Zhu Pets are among the season's most sought-after gifts. Such toy is timely by virtue of history below: Believe it or not?

President Jimmy Carter was born in the year of the Rat and he started normalization with China 3 decades ago with his good vision for US-China proper relations in the 21st century

Page B1 Tai Shan(meaning peaceful mountain) heading east, breaking hearts on his way. Before panda's move to China, expect a long, mushy goodbye. Panda is loved by all folks in USA and in China as well.

Page C1: Style section- Theater Review: A show of girl power: At imagination stage, the animated Disney feature "MULAN" gets live-action treatment with anestral spirits and an inept dragon that offers help to a plucky young woman in ancient China.

My cousin is named after "Mulan" and her husband earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard but he passed aways years ago as a former Director of Exports in China. Unfortunately, my cousin is having hearing trouble for reason of aging,living in Beijing.

Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao blogs on a raining day at the Andrews AF Base Library on Saturday,December 5, 2009 at 9.38 a.m. I was in Shanghai ,Jiaxing and Suzhou in the month of November 2009. Got back on Monday, November 30th with fond memories of Shanghai,the host of Expo 2010, The American Pavilion will be the largest in May 2010.

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