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Guqin, a Chinese zither evoking sound of a mist, makes a comeback

TO tai chi master Guo Huaisheng, music floats from a guqin (a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family) like mist while melodies run from a piano like rainfall. "A great pianist can mimick the sound and image of a mist ...

From WANG YONG, Shanghai Daily,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Wang Wei

Choosing simple digs over mansion and leisure

AN illustrious, world-famous scientist lived in a simple apartment of less than 100 square meters for almost half a century, turning down offers to move him to a splendid residence - befitting his fame. Few Chinese knew of Qian Xuesen's frugal life ...

From WANG YONG, Shanghai Daily,  4 Nov 2009

How playing the guqin evokes ancient culture, the simple life and nature

IT'S rare for urbanites walled in concrete forests to hear the sound of flowing water - that burbling or splashing sound from the heart of nature. But my wife and I heard it on Saturday night, not real water falling down a high mountain - there's no ...

From WANG YONG, Shanghai Daily,  21 Sep 2009
Related Topics: NASA,  John D. Rockefeller,  Jack London

Escape from the city sizzle and find room at an inn called Tomato

It's my eighth time here," he gesticulated in simple English to show his fondness of the farm inn tucked away at the heart of Hokkaido, the most northern isle of Japan. He is a polite Japanese man in his 30s we chanced to meet at dinner in mid-July ...

From WANG YONG, Shanghai Daily,  28 Aug 2009

Stiff jail term for polluting boss is the right decision

MY hat's off to the judges of Yancheng City who have sentenced the boss of a chemical factory to 11 years in prison on charges of knowingly poisoning local drinking waters. On August 14, a local court in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, created a legal ...

From WANG YONG, Shanghai Daily,  19 Aug 2009

Nanjing Rd shop assistants need to learn about service

SHANGHAI is facing a double whammy: a shrinking land reserve versus a ballooning population. Xinhua news agency reported yesterday that the number of Shanghai's residents (excluding a transient population) had hit a record high of 20 million. From 20 ...

From WANG YONG, Shanghai Daily,  19 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Han Zheng

Net friends silent over fate of a hungry, homeless cat

A little stray cat caught my eye last Thursday on my way to work. It was trembling from hunger and cold. I stopped and stooped to "talk" to it in the shabby - filthy indeed - lane in which I found it. It opened its mouth as if to "meow," but it was ...

From WANG YONG, Shanghai Daily,  17 Aug 2009

Is there culture in a bowl of noodles?

IT'S unsavory to justify the high price of noodles sold in the Palace Museum in Beijing by conjuring culture out of them. The Palace Museum would not have come under public fire and satire for its expensive noodles had it simply said it was a matter ...

From WANG YONG, Shanghai Daily,  10 Aug 2009

Do drunk drivers deserve the death penalty?

THE death of a girl in Hangzhou on Tuesday night under the wheels of a Porsche has stirred nationwide debate over whether illegal driving deserves the death penalty. Wei Zhigang, a 29-year-old man who killed 16-year-old Ma Fangfang, who was legally ...

From WANG YONG, Shanghai Daily,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Porsche

Are workers better off in a state-owned factory, or private one?

IT'S surprising for an official supposed to safeguard state assets to ridicule workers' preference for a state-owned enterprise. Wang Xidong, an official in charge of state assets in Jilin Province, northeast China, coined the derogatory term "state- ...

From WANG YONG, Shanghai Daily,  2 Aug 2009

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