There's The China We Know And Love

[Mercator]

Baseball is an Olympic sport, though, and I'm sure they're trying to get as many medals as possible. Then again, Cuba will win anyway.

[Drake Tungsten]

To be fair, the Chinese don't care that much about baseball. So they don't put the funding and effort into it as much as other sports like soccer or the Olympic games.

I understand that. Still, getting beat by a combined 28-3 by your two biggest regional rivals must hurt. And it's not over yet. I wonder how bad they'll get beat by Taiwan today...

[Colonâ„¢]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid



40 years ago, my father had to get up at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before he went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work, and when he got home, his mother and father would kill him and dance on his grave singing Halleluja.

You had a tough youth.

[Colonâ„¢]

Originally posted by One_more_turn
Just to give you "spoiled" westerners some perspectives:

45 years ago, my dad had to travel 10 miles during snow storms deep into mountains to find woods for their family stoves.

20 years ago, whole familes shared a single pair of pants in some parts of China.

20 years ago, when I visited my dad's home village, children are only allowed to eat meat during festivities. Meat are reserved for most productive members of the family and guests.

15 years ago, my wife's high school cafeteria offered only rice and some salted vegetables for meal.

And that's not all.

10 years ago, whole families had only one cell phone, AT MOST.

15 years ago, you HAD to PAY for music.

20 years ago, animated movies HAD to be DRAWN by HAND.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by DaShi
To be fair, the Chinese don't care that much about baseball. So they don't put the funding and effort into it as much as other sports like soccer or the Olympic games.

deeess ahhh naught ahh good ahh answeeerrr

weeee beee weeerrryyy good buuutt weeee haaavveee aaahhh pwablem wifff daaaaa ballllsss annnddd daaa branchhhh

Pwusss...take loong time to chase ball when hit ower wall

I make fuuunnneeeee

[Alexander's Horse]

more evidence China has its handsful just holding it together

[Drake Tungsten]

Taiwan beat China 12-3 this morning...

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Mercator
Baseball is an Olympic sport, though, and I'm sure they're trying to get as many medals as possible. Then again, Cuba will win anyway.

Not anymore. It's being discontinued despite the fact that it is popular in North and Central America and East Asia.

[Zkribbler]

We need to keep in mind that since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, cities have financially outstriped rural areas. We hear about the horrors of factory life in Europe and the US 100-125 years ago, but we forget that at time, people were moving into the cities, because factory life was less horrific than rural life.

China's going through that now. So it will need to deal with the problems we went thru -- the dicodomy of wealth between city dwellers and farmers, and the uneven distribution of the wealth created by industrialization, which the lion's share being skimmed off by the managers.

Hopefully, China will handle these problems more quickly and efficiently than the West did, because it has our history as a roadmap, and because of their Maoist backgrounds.

[Dauphin]

China to execute handbag theives?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2070005,00.html

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Dauphin
China to execute handbag theives?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...070005,00.html

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
We need to keep in mind that since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, cities have financially outstriped rural areas. We hear about the horrors of factory life in Europe and the US 100-125 years ago, but we forget that at time, people were moving into the cities, because factory life was less horrific than rural life.

China's going through that now. So it will need to deal with the problems we went thru -- the dicodomy of wealth between city dwellers and farmers, and the uneven distribution of the wealth created by industrialization, which the lion's share being skimmed off by the managers.

Hopefully, China will handle these problems more quickly and efficiently than the West did, because it has our history as a roadmap, and because of their Maoist backgrounds.

Thanks prof Z

[Mao]

Oh, just randomly, DaShi, are you still curious about the Asian American movement across America? I vaguely remember something about that in a thread before it dropped into a black hole...

[Alexander's Horse]

now, now, don't be snippy

[C0ckney]

from that times article.

China executes more people than any other country, with research suggesting that about 10,000 people die at the hands of the state every year.

disgusting