Monday, February 15, 2010

Quartet and lute virtuoso craft as oundscape of Chinese history

Washington Post,Feb.15,2010 page C3: Beginning with 19th century mountain dances,the pieces advanced to 1930s Shanghai,with its jazzy night club music,tempered by disturbing images of the Sino-Japanese war.

I remember Sino-Japanese war vividly in my mind when I was a teenager in Shanghai and in Tianjin,North China.

Page A14: Photo of Zhu Zhu pets for high-tech, low-priced playthings to stay popular.

In Pin Yin: Zhu can be more than 20 Chinese words. Therefore,machine translation leave much to be desired. Cf.www.Google.com.cn for Sino-American Economics with lots of errors including my name Xie Shihao.

Page A17: Robert Samuelson published a column with negative scenario. His conclusion:"Given China's growing power - and the world economy's fragile state-a showdown may do no one any good,Miscalculation is leading us down dark alleys."

My positive outlook: Cooperation and collaboration would be desirable for Sino-American Economics. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke are leading USA to have constructive cooperation with China for mutual benefit.

Page A3: China is world leader in hacked computers,US is a close second. There is the common problem in the global context. Photo: A woman uses an internet cafe in Shanghai. There are believed to be more than 10 million infected computers in China.

Francis Shieh a.k.a.Xie Shihao,an independent student of economics watching Sino-American economics in action. Monday,Feb.15,2010 at 8.38 a.m.

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