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"Mei-Hua" View, April 2008, Issue # 2April 22, 2008 - 4:56am

Program Managers Articles & Columns

Telecom Ping-Pong

When I traveled to Beijing last June, it was not the Beijing I remembered. Back in 1990, the streets were flooded with heavy bicycle traffic, the “Friendship Store” was the only place in town where we could buy our croissant and salami supplies and telephone connection was unbearable.

The Cat Learned How to Catch Mice: Now What’s Next?

It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it can catch mice.
Deng Xiaoping

He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
Rudyard Kipling, The Cat that Walked by Himself

Imagine

Andrey G.Imagine that I say, I speak Chinese and therefore, I understand China. Nonsense, you’d say. Even if you know how to connect characters and follow four tones of Mandarin, and even if your count is above 4,000 of thinly brushed calligraphic masterpieces, you’d be fooling yourself. “You may say that I am a dreamer. But I am not the only one.”