Saturday, August 30, 2008

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(PROVISIONAL) LAST REPORT

In a few hours of stay in Beijing is unfortunately already history. I leave in my place befitting the great Chairman Mao Ze Dong wave goodbye (here the chemical university at the 3rd ring). He has in his lifetime is hardly ever imagine how his country and its capital will change in the years since his death in 1976.

conclude this in mind I do not have a quote from the famous "Red Book", but with a claim of a well known (capitalist) sports goods manufacturer, who, my so I fit in nicely with China in 2008:


PS. My reports in Beijing and ends in August 2008 with the brief report. I'm going to blog is alive and occasionally add new posts. I am pleased to now and if you look inside. Thank you and zai jian!

Friday, August 29, 2008

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XIAO JIANG, ZAI JIAN!

addition to visiting the Forbidden City, Summer Palace and the Great Wall is also a shopping trip to the Silk Alley (Xiushui Jie) to the standard range of tourists. Originally it was actually a narrow lane, lined up at the stalls that were involving more or less true brand clothes at bargain prices (with good negotiation skills) are sold. This lane is for some years only history, there now is a multi-storey department store, only the name remains. There, too, is lined with small stands that result from Victoria backpack, the Columbia jacket and diesel sports shoes to Oakley sunglasses, Billabong T-shirts and Callaway golf clubs pretty much every (trade) Products that think they are can. This store has no windows, the air is stuffy, it's noisy and usually there is a very brisk business. For people who want to stock up on cheap brands therefore a good level of stamina and stress resistance is demanded. But who are these mostly younger salespeople who this hectic and noisy bustle daily exposure?
works over three years now since the 22-year-old Xiao Jiang on the fourth floor in one of those small items and sells golf equipment. Immediately after the end of schooling (high school) she has left her apparently poverty-stricken village in Zhejiang province, to check how many millions of migrant workers and migrant workers from poorer provinces their luck in Beijing and with any job, at least a halfway decent income to . achieve
the job in "Silk Alley" department store is truly not a "chocolate job". Xiao Jiang is working, except for short holidays during the Chinese New Year, free all year without a single Day and this clock from 9 am to 9 clock in the evening (with a short lunch break). This work is required in addition to sales and negotiating skills were above all a robust physical constitution. Meanwhile, Xiao Jiang speaks more than passable English, and has in the time when I know them now developed into an intelligent and very self-confident young woman. Compared to sellers in "normal" stores, shops, Xiao Jiang earned quite well, she can even have their own small room near the Silk Alley afford and put one or two yuan to the page (apart from the fact that she has no time to spend money). Despite their hard work and degrading from a European perspective Office hours, I experience Xiao Jiang voted always cheerful and positive. You have to listen even more precisely and "read between the lines" if you want to learn something about their concerns, desires and dreams.

Xiao Jiang, the Silk Alley in September and turn their back to try to find another job in her home. First, they will recover but even by the hardships of the past three years, take time for their friends and just enjoy life again. I wish her good luck for the future! Xiao Jiang, zai jian!

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(CONTINUED) NO Botellón BEIJING

It is of course pure coincidence that This short report just hours after (finally) took place at the Zurich Botellon Blatter meadow appears (seen from a distance it appears that Switzerland, apart from the severance of Mr. Nef, only deals with Massenbesäufnissen). Actually, but this is not the subject of this report, but I suppose that earth-shattering event to be happy to discuss the drinking customs in China, in my personal view and experience something discuss it further.

No, I have a Botellon here really experienced yet in Beijing, but who knows when these types of events are held there. That does not, however, that the Chinese do not more or less close contact with alcoholic beverages maintain. I once read that half of the Chinese, the enzymes needed to break down alcohol in the blood does not have. I do not know if that's true, but I can say from (bitter) experience, only that the other half apparently with double the amount of enzymes with it. The trend I have learned that alcohol southern Chinese tend to be less tolerated than the inhabitants of the northern provinces (the "liquor trench" runs, however, in the truest sense of the word very fluent).

Many Chinese are in fact rather modest, often shy people. For important business meetings that take place are often not in a meeting room, but at a meal in the restaurant, alcoholic beverages are consumed in order to achieve a slightly more relaxed mood. They want to know (better), and personal issues are well discussed, the transaction is even often relegated to the background (meetings with strict opening and closing times and a prepared agenda of all are often unknown). It gives off and also with foreign business people as notorious "binge drinking" and that can also pretty neat to go to the liver. But I think that these drinking habits tend to be rather slow . Die Especially in privately owned companies can be regular "failures" on key employees (usually women are spared from these booze-ups) no longer afford.
drunk is usually the local "white wine (bai jiu), but beware, this white wine should not be confused with our Chablis or Aigle. This is
is a brandy with volume often 60 percent or more (the more alcohol the more expensive). Almost every region in China produces its own specialty drink. Famous (and expensive) is the "Maotai" from the province of Guizhou. Here is
in Beijing, especially the notorious "He Guo Tou" (pictured right) is very popular, is a half-liter bottle of it already for about two francs. Especially among the better-off layers Mitel but now more and more "normal" wine drinking.

China is also increasingly a country of beer, currently with an average consumption of about 24 liters per capita per year. This quantity as the Czechs drink beer drinking champion (over 150 liters per head) for breakfast, but the growth rates in China are still a year of more than 5% is very impressive. So it's no accident that actually establish all the great international beer companies here in China and partly in particular younger Audiences are very popular (including Corona). In China itself but also very good, rather light beers brewed. Known to us is the Tsingtao beer of more than 100 years of German brewery founded in the city of Qingdao, Shangdong Province. There are, however, probably almost as many beer breweries and varieties such as Belgium, is worth including the HAPI from Harbin and Shenyang in the SNOW-BEER. Yes, even in the inhabited mainly Muslim Xinjiang Autonomous Region is a very neat light and dark beer is brewed.
Here in Beijing Yanjing is the dominant brand of beer, a bottle (6 dl) of the simple variety is to have been for 30 cents. And Yanjing is doing everything that it remains, despite the increasing competition from home and abroad also No. 1 in Beijing.
Recently I met in a small restaurant Wang Lili, who was dressed as Yanjing ambassador, the guests at the influence of drinks accordingly. Its charm has made it then, that the writer has ten clock in the morning ordered the first Yanjing. Perhaps worth mentioning is the fact that Wang Lili comes not from Beijing but from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, but that does not stop, motivated for a good product to use in Beijing.
sports and beer go together like Siamese twins, apparently. There may be no sporting event that is not sponsored by any brand of beer. While we had to add to the dictates of the EURO 2008 Carlsberg, it was during the Olympics after all a choice. Tsingtao, Budweiser (which in the U.S., of course) and Yanjing all just came into some form on as sponsors.

Conclusion: No Botellon die of thirst in Beijing, but here visitors have not won!

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

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OLYMPIA FREE ZONE


There are still places where one has the sense to find Olympic Games, if any, take place on another planet. For example, in Baishan in Changping District, a small village just 30 miles north of the Bird's Nest. And here there are also street kitchens, which would meet the strict hygiene and although he never needs of the BOCOG, but wonderful Chaobing (fried pancake with vegetables and a little meat) and cook it for less than 1 franc.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

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VOLUNTEERS: BEST OF BEIJING

you were (almost) be seen everywhere: the roughly 1.6 million volunteer helpers or just volunteers (for comparison, in Sidney there were about 45,000, about 60 in Athens' 000) were everywhere and have their uniform clothing the city significantly influenced . There were the volunteers who had very directly to do with the games. They managed athletes and officials or serve many functions in the stages or as assistants in the input controls. Others worked on about 600 across the city, distributed information booths. Emergency - Information or Translation Services stood at large panels. These stands were each filled with up to 10 people, often held a laptop and many brochures equipped, many had prepared a Guestbook or bulletin board at the visitor could add a personal message or greeting . I experienced this Volunteers usually very helpful, knowledgeable and often quite eloquent. They were always cheerful but set up, and took their time for a chat or a little fun . These volunteers it was mostly students, some of them came from distant provinces, and in some cases there were also foreigners. Quite obviously they
have seized the opportunity to make contact with guests from all over the world and get to know so the world a bit.
A large army of volunteers was recruited for security guard services. These were employed by the security controls in the U-Bahn stations or in traffic control, but above all they were to be met before
everywhere settlements to intersections , museums and other attractions. Here was
are often elderly people, and they evoked the days when the Vetreterinnen and representatives of the so-called street committees were still visible. These volunteers took their task was also an opportunity to be together with their neighbors and with the residents of the neighborhood to hold a little chat. They were now less by informed on foreign language skills, but were still too foreign passers always friendly and if the communication is not quite so well worked out, then at least that was one reason for a hearty laugh.
The great fireworks at the opening - and closing ceremonies, the story records the men Phelps and Bolt that seem perfect organization of participants and spectators have probably all impressed. For me it was but clearly this Volunteers who have significantly contributed to Beijing by a friendly, open, cordial and helpful Side show. You have definitely helped to have the city's image as a great and regular visitors of this city can do I only did this " Spirit" shows a profound effect. Each city is ultimately only as good as its people and at least during the games, Beijing has in this respect clearly deserves a gold medal!

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This brief review will actually show is that we consume here in the Olympic city of Beijing not only sports, but are also active participants. Golf is (still) not an Olympic discipline, although within about an hour about 70, sometimes quite challenging golf courses found. With my friends Shao and Cao and his wife He Jia on Friday I have an entertaining, albeit only moderately successful round in a square in Langfang (approximately located between Beijing and Tianjin in Hebei Province) played. And good friends meet at the golf sometimes in the bunker. To create but also gave me this nice little pond. After I had already sunk two balls in it, I did not let go of the suspicion that this water barrier was probably sponsored by the golf ball industry.

As in Switzerland, the golf experience for some years also a big boom and it would not surprise me if China in the next few years one or the other "tiger" would produce. The Inside Track: Here, no cell phone ban is on the court, on the contrary, it is given to the caddy, the / the way as Hilfstelefonist works (in). Although we often calls it, but somehow manages it mostly to play a round within the target time finished. Interestingly, the interpretation of the "Local Rules" or "GUR", here is always decided in favor of the (gratuity payable) score and protest is (almost) useless. Anyway, for militant Golf purists may not be the appropriate China golf destination for people who just enjoy this wonderful Sports have the China one can recommend highly.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

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the everyday MORNING MOOD

saw this morning in the nearby park as if would take place no Olympic Games. The mostly older people came, as always, to make her walk, Tai Chi to practice singing and dancing or complain to others about their daughters to
, the cook can not decent. The old man was like every morning here to proudly show off his singing birds. In this rather small, in and of itself unspectacular Park, foreigners are rarely seen, but the
just makes him so appealing. Or so it might already have looked in ancient China.
But is still the Park gardener and has looked, so that the visitors but please do not forget that there are now even games. With bamboo pipes he built this wonderful cyclists and placed in the middle of the flower beds.

Friday, August 22, 2008

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FIRST REFLECTION TO BEIJING 2008

In a few hours, the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing over. Among the sporting events I can and I will not express here, I was too far away from the action. In addition, one was from the various media constantly and probably also served competently. Stress I will here simply once the reports and reports by Corinne Schlatter (cos.) from the NZZ, who took the trouble to travel for several months before the Games to Beijing and to throw one, or more behind the scenes. Her numerous articles have shown that Corinne Schlatter, unlike many other journalists, approached the city and its inhabitants critical but open mind and reported. All those from unskilled "China-bashing" is fed up with know their work to appreciate the more.

It is for me, at least at this stage difficult, many of my impressions, experiences and encounters while to organize these games and to bring in a still somewhat tolerable dose to "paper". The following figure but says perhaps more than many words.
Beijing has certainly left no stone unturned to make the city appear in radiant splendor. This is in many respects succeeded and where they supposedly unattractive or unfinished could not remove it, it was, more or less tastefully clad, flag manufacturers, and the screen printing and other printer here really did a great job.

In a figurative sense, this picture also shows that China is not just "ready built" is that in this country many contradictions, Incomprehensible and sometimes quite brilliant programming encountered. You really have to take the trouble to learn about China and the Chinese a little better, to understand why many here hold very different than here in Switzerland or in Europe. It is therefore not surprising that many things around the Olympic Games in the Western media (and probably also in the general public) felt very different, were considered or assessed as here in China.

Time will tell whether these games, apart from several new sports venues and shows mass intensive investment in public transport, in some way a lasting effect.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

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DRESS CODE

No shoes, no shirt, no service: Actually, at each entrance to a restaurant in the U.S. see these remarks concerning dress code. Also in this respect China is different, at least in the small places that are frequented by ordinary people. Here the half-naked men are served even by the same two service employees at the same time.
way: In this simple and cheap restaurant just around the corner from us are Uighur specialties and not bad.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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PEKING UNIVERSITY, Polyclinic for TCM

While we in the West, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is gaining in popularity, trust the Chinese makes increasing the blessings of Western medicine. Nevertheless, TCM is mainly among the older generation still propagated quite popular, according to it is taught as a subject of well-known universities. Every Wednesday 18-20 clock also stops by Professor Li Yuhang Guo Zhong Zhong Yi Yao Da Xue (University of TCM, is part of the famous Beijing University) and his assistant, Yang Hong hours for the Beijing citizens. Included are always some of his students, taking notes diligently, which diagnosed the professor and what medications he prescribes. Professor Li is apparently known among other things, a specialist in blood-pressure problems and which increasingly also in Chinese on (one of the dark side of rapid economic development and the associated stress).
Visiting Professor Li begins for us with a nearly hour-long trip to the near Sanyuan Bridge on the third ring situated polyclinic. At 15 yuan, about Fri 2.35, you pay first visit to this doctor, it usually begins the long wait, yesterday, for example, almost two hours. The people endure this waiting, with admirable patience, many use this time to stop and talk with others to bring snacks and drinks. Privacy and confidentiality, as we know it in doctors' offices and hospitals, is completely unknown here. The surgery Prof. Li is always open, there is no door to
adjacent waiting room (which is of course a TV and see the Olympic broadcasts are). By a thin, partially open partition can be noticed well, come what problems the patient to Prof. Li.
In a TCM consultation is a feeling in the truest sense of the word on the pulse and also is also the state and especially the color of the tongue looked at closely. Above all, however, asked a lot of interest, including the consistency and frequency of various bodily secretions. In the end, a prescription issued for a generally very bitter "magic potion" is to take twice daily. Hardcore-TCM patients with a lot of time to cook their medicine at home in a purpose-made pot itself. This is obviously quite complicated and takes up to two hours.
We can mix this medicine in a pharmacy and cook, then we get the filled in portions Medicine wrapped in plastic, which we then only have to heat up later in a water bath.

For me as a (western) is much lay around TCM strange and difficult to understand. The fact is that my blood pressure has stabilized at a lower level. Professor Li, who knows the list of my Western medicine provides this treatment as a supplement. He is also very careful with his recipes, which he prescribes for more than one week. A visit to a TCM doctor in the country of origin is definitely very interesting.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

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XIU XI

Chinese are almost always time and a more or less suitable place for a break (or even xiu xi) or a nap. I can assure you: This guard is not the personal bodyguard of Hu Jintao, he still guarded the vault with the gold medals (most of which remain in the country anyway). No, he only guarded the entrance to a property management office and there's never really hold an event in which his required active use would be. Therefore: sleep well and dream 'sweet!

Monday, August 18, 2008

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COMPLETELY NORMAL SHOPPING MADNESS OLYMPIA

Even if one puts the sale at IKEA, Easter at Sprüngli, Christmas in the Franz Carl Weber and the Swisscom shop on the first day of sale of the iPhone: Compared to what the flagship store of Olympic souvenirs at the famous Beijing shopping street Wang Fu Jing's going to feel to the transactions mentioned as haven of peace and solitude. What's going here defies description and you might think that there is something for free. The opposite is the case here: jostle each square meter of retail space is perceived four persons, all in the true sense of cool as possible to get hold of many of the overpriced Olympic souvenirs. Of Fuwa's (Olympic mascot) in all sizes and variations, mugs, ties, 1389 different pins, pennants, adhesives, T-shirts or towels, there are actually any possible (and impossible) object that it has not printed with the Olympic logo is. There are also models of birds nest there have, in different sizes and materials, in part, for several thousand francs. The Olympics seem to be a great success, at least for the Merchandiser (and licensors).

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NORMAL CITIZENS FOR PUBLIC VIEWING

Tickets for all competitions are officially for weeks sold out. Three weeks ago, in the award the last cards, it was even pretty desert skirmishes. Nevertheless, one can see but always places available in the stadiums, this went because a large number of tickets to the sponsors and then distributed
obvious to people
were not used to this. This phenomenon is also increasingly with us to watch for large sporting events, people are often only interested in the "prime" or finals and finals.
before yesterday could now even the "normal" people in the city the games live pretty close to do first of all, free. For example, come to the Shouti Nan Lu, where the Tomorrow, the marathon runners ran past us. The road was completely blocked and numerous well-guarded security forces (including helicopters that flew in
large number of us to watch the whole thing from the air).
to the otherwise very quiet (and rather boring) in our street, especially by officials of the nearby residential neighborhood ministries, quickly formed a large crowd. Many onlookers were the meanwhile
everywhere present in the city merchandise, such as Chinese flags and pennants, Fanshirts or adhesives in the face and arms. After half an hour was the ghost again
over and had the same cleaning crew to the road from the filth of the public right to free again. People went back to their homes and it seemed that never even happened something special. Anyway: The derhaben applause and ultimately worthwhile. With the positions 3 and 4 had the Chinese in this discipline, a strong showing.