Purposive without Foresight

To my readers who cannot read Chinese: this entry is a prose about my trip in China from Sep. 29 to Oct. 11: what I’ve seen and a lot of nostalgic feelings. I’ll try to post a English version later. Photos made during the trip will be posted soon.
第一章 缘起
每年秋风起时， 去国离乡的悲凉总是挥之不去。 无边落木年复一年萧萧而下， 却总是只能在梦里一掬滚滚而来的长江水。 妈妈总是会寄来新做的冬衣。 想起孟郊的游子吟， [...]

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Ost Trifft West by Yang Liu on amazon.de
It’s a small book with warmth of daily life, humour, and sophistication. It however does not require the concentration that is usually needed for reading a book on a subject that is as heavy as this. The compositions in the pictures are concise and powerful. I admire Liu [...]

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This topic has been boring in my blog, I know. Dear readers, please bear with me, this is my last entry for the mainstream German media this year. After this entry, I’ll focus on interesting stuff such as software programming, investment, and animes.
Yesterday, in the subway station in Hannover, the projectors there kept broadcasting [...]

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Sniff:

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) becomes the newest most profitable bank of the world (source: bloomberg.com) Last year, the champion was Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). Below is a list of the top ten largest banks by market capitalization (rank, bank name, country, market cap in billion dollars):

1. Industrial & Commercial [...]

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Last Friday I went home four hours earlier to watch the 29th Olympic opening ceremony live on ARD ( the main German TV channel. It is publicly funded ).
I cried from the beginning to the end while I was watching the ceremony. The selfless contribution of tens of thousands actors and volunteers touched me [...]

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I heard that Shanghai is going to build yet another Disneyland which would cost around 4 billion euros. And, an artificial lake which costs 50 million euros is already being built in Shanghai, seems the main purpose is to boost the price of real estates around the lake.
I don’t feel happy to hear these [...]

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In the National Geographic German version issue July 2008, there is a story about China. I bought this issue and read the complete story. Very well written. The authors had lived in China for many years, what they described is quite fact-oriented. The critiques are quite to the point. The story was written with [...]

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The Wise: Helmut Schmidt, ex. Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. The talk below was on 2008.05.20. When I get time I’ll try to translate it into English.

The complete interview can be found here.
If only Angela Merkel were as half as wise as Helmut Schmidt is, Germany would have much less problems now. [...]

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Just watched ARD’s report about why German people are so reluctant to donate to victims of the recent natural disasters in China or Myanmar. First of all, let me make clear that I know donation should be voluntary.
People in today’s program talked about donation scandals, they worried that the donation would not get [...]

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Sniff:

Jim Rogers: China’s Economic Advance is All But Unstoppable Recently I was reading a 20-year-old book “Market Widzards: Interviews with Top Traders” and was deeply impressed by Jim Roger’s accurate prediction for the world economics in late 1980s. More impressive was his way of viewing the world economics. Now let’s see what he said about [...]

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