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Monthly Archive for January, 2007

my review for the book “1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline” on amazon

Posted in China, book, history on Jan 29th, 2007

The book: 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
The history of China is long and it is very difficult to get a clear idea about the logic behind the countless events happened during the last several thousand years in China. I’ve read many books on China’s history, both Chinese ones and [...]

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beauty beyond any word

Posted in life, music on Jan 25th, 2007

Just listen and watch.

At the birthday, to myself.

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Ningning’s Chinese tutorial Lesson 3: Fun of Permutation

Posted in Chinese, language on Jan 25th, 2007

Introduction to this tutorial
Lesson 0: Chinese is Simple
Lesson 1: Say Hello and Introduce Yourself in Chinese
Lesson 2: Plural and Interrogative Sentence
Further Lessons
Comprehensive information for Pinyin on Wikipedia.

Copyright Ning Zhao. All rights reserved. If you want to reproduce the tutorial in any form, please ask for my permission first. My email address is ellen_zhao@web.de. Thanks.
In Lesson [...]

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Ningning’s Chinese tutorial Lesson 2: Plural and Interrogative Sentence

Posted in Chinese, language on Jan 22nd, 2007

Ningning’s Chinese tutorial Lesson 0 and Lesson 1
Copyright by Ellen Ning Zhao, 2007. Please ask for permission if you want to do anything other than reading by yourself and/or printing a copy for your own. Thanks!
Lesson 2: Plural and Questions
In this lesson we are going to learn two magic words which both handle some crosscutting [...]

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My Envision for Nikon D400

Posted in hardware, photography on Jan 10th, 2007

Here are two features I hope for the Nikon D400:
1. HDR sensor. In November 2006 I saw HDR CMOS sensors were exhibited in the Vision Messe 2006, Stuttgart. Currently the targeted clients are not consumers but I hope the consumer market will adopt this kind of sensors in the near future. HDR images have been [...]

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Ningning’s Practical Recipes 1: Fried Mixed Rice (in English and German)

Posted in recipe on Jan 2nd, 2007

Yesterday I cooked several dishes in Helene’s kitchen and the fried mixed rice was the most welcomed one. So I’m sharing the recipe here. When it comes to the quantity of the raw material I’m using “per person” so you can calculate the total amount according to your need. The German version can [...]

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Ningning’s Chinese tutorial: Introduction, Lesson Zero and Lesson One

Posted in Chinese, language on Jan 2nd, 2007

Introduction
Before Dirk knew me, he already got a few books about/on the Chinese language from Singapore, just for fun. I read the Chinese language books he collected and didn’t really feel comfortable with them. They are either overwhelmingly difficult for foreigners from lesson one or not really efficient enough. Since my job is not teaching [...]

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New Year’s eve

Posted in life on Jan 1st, 2007

It is Jan 1st, 2007 now. Yesterday evening around 23:30, Helene, Jacqueline, Dirk and me and two cousins quickly climbed up a hill in Hirschau and watched the spectacular firework which lasted at least 30 minutes. Far away, the sky above the Rottenburg was bright and colourful, the whole village was like floating in a [...]

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