Tag: china
Friday Song: Here’s Helen Feng of Nova Heart – SupChina
On China’s Great Books: An Interview with Frances Wood – BLARB
More China-Focused Suggestions for Bookish People – BLARB
Ultra-Real China – BLARB
Modeling for teen-girl clothes on Tmall, 72-year-old grandpa becomes Internet sensation | Offbeat China
Former feds take vital cyber skills to foreign companies – Nextgov.com
Unrestricted Warfare
‘Editor’s Note: The following selections are taken from “Unrestricted Warfare,” a book published in China in February 1999 which proposes tactics for developing countries, in particular China, to compensate for their military inferiority vis-à-vis the United States during a high-tech war.’
Dark Roasted Blend: Intricate Japanese Movable Type Sets
Dark Roasted Blend: Intricate Japanese Movable Type Sets
“It is a widespread misconception that Johannes Gutenberg created the first movable type system and the printing press, around 1450 A.D. It’s true, Gutenberg was the first to make his movable type from a certain alloy of lead, tin, and antimony (which was more efficient than iron, used in Asia) – but movable type itself was originally invented in China around 1040 A.D. by Bi Seng (during the Song Dynasty). “