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01/08/2009
Fewer visitors to China last year despite Olympics (AP via Yahoo! News)
The number of travelers to China dropped by 2 million in 2008 in what was supposed to be a banner year for tourism but became one dampened by Olympics-related security measures and the global economic crunch.
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01/08/2009
China's jobless migrants go home early for holiday (AP via Yahoo! News)
Some hefted their luggage on bamboo shoulder poles. Others carried their things in plastic buckets. All were migrant workers hurrying to get home Thursday before China's Lunar New Year festival — a holiday that triggers one of the world's biggest annual migrations of humans.
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01/08/2009
China's CCB says Bank of America partnership sound (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
China Construction Bank (0939.HK) said on Thursday it was "fully confident" in its strategic relationship with Bank of America , after the top U.S. lender sold nearly 13 percent of its holding in the Chinese bank this week.
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01/08/2009
China reassures over bird flu, says no outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News)
China said Thursday there was no outbreak of the deadly bird flu disease in Beijing and neighbouring areas after a woman died of the virus in the capital.
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01/08/2009
Senior official says US, China ties strengthening (AP via Yahoo! News)
China and the United States are "increasingly interdependent" following three decades of building close economic and political ties, a senior U.S. diplomat said Thursday.
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01/08/2009
China-US ties a legacy of Bush administration: envoy (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Relations between the United States and China were at their warmest ever, a senior US diplomat said Thursday as he hailed the improved ties as one of President George W. Bush's important legacies.
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01/09/2009
China's jobless migrants go home early (MSNBC)
Many migrant workers in China have been forced to go home early this year for the Lunar New Year holiday because their factories went belly up or their assembly lines were idle.
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01/08/2009
China’s Exports Probably Declined Most in a Decade in December (Bloomberg)
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China’s exports probably fell the most in a decade in December amid a deepening global recession, making it more likely extra measures will be implemented to stimulate growth.
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01/08/2009
Freezing China warns of repeat of New Year gridlock (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
China is preparing to tackle paralyzed roads and railways if icy weather seizes the south and center in a possible repeat of last year's gridlock just as millions head home for the Lunar New Year holiday.
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01/08/2009
Bank of China shares fall after HK tycoon's sale (AP via Yahoo! News)
Bank of China shares tumbled Thursday after Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's foundation sold more than $500 million worth of shares in the lender, becoming the latest investor to cut its investment in China's banking sector.
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  • Chinese Doctrinal Classifications of Buddhism - In the fifth and sixth centuries CE, Chinese Buddhists employed p'an-chiao as a hermeneutical strategy to reconcile the discrepancies among the different teachings believed to have been taught by the Buddha. By resorting to the doctrine of expedient means, they were able to create a hierarchical framework within which the entire range of Buddhist teachings could be systematically organized into a coherent doctrinal whole.
  • Dafo - The worlds largest Buddha, in Leshan, China.
  • A Defense of Buddhism vs. Confucianism - A defense of Buddhism written to refute some of the charges against the new religion from India by Confucian and other Chinese. While the author and date of composition are uncertain, this kind of tract was common in China under the Southern Dynasties (420-589 CE).
  • Han Yu's Memorial to Buddhism - One of the leaders in the Confucian counterattack on Buddhism was the classical prose stylist and poet Han Yu (768-824 CE), who in 819 CE composed this vitriolic polemic attacking Buddhism. A champion of rationalism, Han Yu wished to suppress Daoism as well as Buddhism.
  • The Legend of Miao-shan - In China, Kuan-yin (Avalokitesvara) came to be most frequently worshipped in female form as the Goddess of Mercy. This transformation from an originally male deity into a female one seems to have occurred sometime during the Northern Sung dynasty (960-1126 CE) and is reflected in Kuan-yin's miracluous appearance in human form in the legend of Miao-shan.
  • A Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms - An account of the (394-414CE)journey by Fa-hsien and his companions. They visited as many of the Buddhist sacred shrines as they could, especially those associated with the presence of the Buddha. The selections presented here show the reasons for the estblishment of these shrines, the legends that surrounded them, and the ways in which they were maintained.
  • Shaolin Kung Fu History - History of how the Shaolin monks first originated in China, with details of their practice

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