HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hchen@csvaxd.csuohio.edu
Subject: Re: air ticket fare
Organization: Cleveland State University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:41:41 GMT

In article <92359.095114U59962@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U59962@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
> Do you know which travel agency offers a best price for a air ticket from Beiji
> ng to Austin, TX.  I appreciate it if you give the name and phone number.
> 
i do not know the name of the travel agencies, but i can give you their phone
number, all of them can speak chinese.

	1-800-800-2460
	1-800-777-8892
	1-800-421-8908

good luck.
hongjie chen
From: cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Everyone should change his major to Qi Gong major
Keywords: Qi Gong
Date: 3 Jan 93 18:54:50 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science

In article <1i7bdpINN9rp@crcnis1.unl.edu> tchen@hoss.unl.edu (tianan chen) writes:
>     Frankly, I am really confused about Qi Gong. If Qi Gong masters can do 
>     everything they want to do, why all of us, stupid guy, are still busy
>     with something else. We should change our major to Qi Gong major. Ops,
>     I forget something. May be it's too late for us to learn Qi Gong. I 
>     heard that one should go to a very remote mountain, find a very strange
>     master, start practice Qi Gong at his very young age. So, how about next
>     generation? People should send all their children to The Qi Gong University
>     of Remote Mountain at China. Then, hundreds or thousands of "A" students
>     would become new Qi Gong master and control the nature.
>
>     My former advisor at China is a professor and a director of a institute. He
>     practice Qi Gong for years. He strongly believe some day he could see the 
>     atoms and molecules in a flask by his naked eyes and control the chemical  
>     reactions inside. This make me don't know whether to laugh or to cry, Ku(1)
>     Xiao(4) Bu De.
>     
>     C
>     I really hope someone can tell me the truth of Qi Gong.
>     .ek
Radio Bejing onece reported a "Qi Gong" master can lift, or bring down a
person without any physical contact. I rather keet skeptism and mentain
curosity on this matter. If "Qi Gong" work so magically, Chinese, not
Westeners should have dominate the World. I hope the deal not become a
laughstork.
>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: smj@sdf.lonestar.org (Stephen M. Jones)
Subject: Why posting of 'pretty girl'???
Organization: Super Dimension Fortress - Public Access Unix - Dallas, Tx.. 
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:18:55 GMT


I am just curious... does she have your permission to have her picture
distributed across the net??  I am sure she is very flattered... from what
other posters say, it seems she is just a normal girl.. pop star or 
anything..  just wondering..


-- 
Stephen M. Jones (214)436-4622  
smj@sdf.lonestar.org <Cs&E> 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: bihkyan@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Yang Yuanxin)
Subject: Re: Newwer China
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:03:02 GMT

In article <9301020026.AA24552@gandalf.gso.uri.edu_> cayula@gandalf.gso.uri.edu (Jean-Francois Cayula) writes:
>I wondered a little bit whether I should reply to your posting.
>I apologize if I am a bit sarcastic, but it's difficult to remain
>serious. 
>In article <C03GM9.82G@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> you write:
>|>      Remember, it's not a matter of money on the Chinese side. and $2B
>|>  is too little to consider for a nation with 10B people.
>Of course, a country with 100 Billion people (why not?) should not care about
>a mere $2 billion, specially when you consider that China is so wealthy.

  What I mean is that there are something more important than money,
certainly you don't understand this.
>|> 
>|>      I can understand, in most situations, Chinese and French can not
>|>  understand each other, too much differences in these two groups of
>|>  people/culture....in WWII, Chinese fought 8 years bloody battle with
>|>  wooden sticks and knifes and rocks agains the invading modern Japanese
>|>  army, while the French surrendered to German in days.... just one 
>|>  example.
>Have ever noticed that population wise, Germany is bigger than France?
>Do you think that all French people capitulated or colaborated? Have you
>ever heard of General De Gaule or Jean Moulin to mention just two? Actually,
>the current French president was also a member of the armed resistance
>movement. But all French were cowards while Chinese were super heroes!
>|> 
    you are almost true.

>|>      I'm very sure, on the issur of HongKong and France, the Chinese
>|>  government  have the support of most, if not all Chinese.A
>|>      American have a treaty with Taiwan, and F-16 is out of date, but
>|>  how about the French, it recognize the PRC as the only Government of
>|>  China including Taiwan province, but it sells  most advanced weapons
>|>  to one of it's province, what's more, the weapons' only target is
>|>  the reat of the PRC.
>Let's put it this way, it's much closer to reality: the USA is a much
>bigger country than France. 
>|> 
>|>     Just think about it! Do you still thing the French is doing anything
>|>  right? it's really a shame. what kind of people would do anything only
>|>  for money? (I did see a lot of this kind of people in certral Paris,I 
>|>  was really surprised)
>That's right, China doesn't sell weapons to anybody. No, sorry, China only
>sells to the good guys... like Irak for example... And in China, nobody
>cares about money, people only care about their fellow human beings.
>Yes, everybody is so honest there, it is well known that there is 
>no corruption in China. 
>|> 
    Does this garbade means you admit that French will do any thing to 
    get money? 
 


Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: zlg9209@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Alan Liu)
Subject: Asking for Fax Number of Nanjing University
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:34:26 GMT

Does anybody have a fax number for Nanjing University, preferrably for the
Department of Atmospheric Sciences? Please email to

     wang@crg50.atmos.uiuc.edu

Thanks for your help!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: xlli@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (xiao-lin li)
Subject: Re: Everyone should change his major to Qi Gong major
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:41:35 GMT

In article <105974@bu.edu> jeffy@bass.bu.edu (jeff yuan) writes:
>
>As to whether Qi Gong is a science, science is all about conjecture,
>test and experimental proof.  So Qi Gong masters can bullshit
>(conjecture) all they want, what they rave about is all crap without
>proof.  And I don't see any proof forthcoming.  At least not
>scientific proof, because they say in order to experience Qi Gong, you
>have to first believe.  Guess that places it squarely in the religion
>category.

That is the point. Instead of using proof, Yan Xin used many big
names such as President Bush, Qian Xuesheng, Zhao Zhongyao and C. N. Yang.
He bragged his audience in China. Gave all kind of bullshit
mystery. The only thing missing was the data and proof. He wanted
people to blindly believe without asking questions. That is
indeed the behavior of a cheater. 

I wonder why he came to America.
From: haiying@cs.mcgill.ca (Haiying ZHANG)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Joan chen on screen? Oh, no!
Date: 30 Dec 92 15:52:47 GMT
Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <1hqmtjINNgvj@shelley.u.washington.edu> jinxiang@carson.u.washington.edu (Jinxiang  Ren) writes:
In article <Bzpxtr.Dut@cs.psu.edu> echeng@phys.psu.edu (Eddie Cheng) writes:
>In article <Bzp1wG.Ept@cs.mcgill.ca> haiying@cs.mcgill.ca (Haiying ZHANG) writes:
>>went off to live a house wife somewhere in West Germany. If a promising
>>career is not even worth a house wife life in the west, what does it say
>>about the future and collective commitment of the Chinese culture
>>circle?
>
>	Come on, it is not just the "culture circle".  We heard stories 
>about medical doctors cleaning rats here.  We heard stories about Ph.D.s
>opening restraunts here.  Why should we demand differently to culture
>cerebrities?  After all, it is their own choices.

   These doctors and PhDs are not celebrities. Neither in here or back
home. They are doing whatever they could to make a living here. Part of
the price of being a celebrity is that one's word and action are
subjected to public scrutiny.

>	Remember how Chinese women's volleyball team became strong?  It
>was largely due to a Japanese coach.  Why can't we Chinese help others
>in the things we know better about?

   When Japan sent its volleyball coach to China, Japanese team was
still in their prime. They did not expect China ever being in a
challenging position. I believe the Japanese did so as part of their
reconciliation effort with China. Those Chinese former table tennis
players' action are largely their own personal decision. 

   I am not saying that these people do not entitled to earn a better
life elsewhere. I am just saying that it is sad that not only China's
brightest students want to come abroad, its popular idols and
celebrities are also giving up their comfortable life at home at all
cost. 

				Haiying
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: Ming-Wa@CSC.mgate1.cuhk.hk (Ming Wa)
Subject: testing
Organization: Computer Services Centre, C.U.H.K.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:00:37 GMT

This is a test.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.china:33769 soc.culture.taiwan:16702 soc.culture.hongkong:16744
From: yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Program to Play Songs (jianpu) Released to PD
Date: 2 Jan 93 17:47:02 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.china
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: yding@unixd2.cis.pitt.edu

I have uploaded jianpu.zip to cs.pitt.edu (130.49.2.61) in directory
/pub/incoming.  

This is a program to play songs in jianpu format.  I am expecting 
people to post / mail their favorast songs to scc / me.

This program is for IBMPC only, and released to public domain.

The format is designed so that you can post easily.  For example, you
can save this posting as test.dat, and play the following song by type

  jianpu test.dat

JP{
Tou2 ru4 de5 ai4 yi1 ci4 (Story from editor's office)
72 4/4 C
| 0 0 0/1'/ 1'/7/ | t7/5/3/ 3 0/7/ 6/7/ | 6/ 2. 0/6/ 6/5/
| 4//3// 4. 0/2/ 1/7,/ | 6/ 5. 5/1'/ 1'/7/ | t7/5/3/ 3 0/7/ 6/7/
| 6/ 2. 0/6/ 6/5/ | 4//3// 4 2//3// 2. 1//7,// | 1 - - -
| 3. 3/ t3/2/1/ 2 | 6, 0/ 1 1/ t7,/6,/7,/ | 5, - 3. 3/
| t3/1/3/ 5 3 0/6/ | 6/6/ t6/1/2/ 3 - | 0/3/ t5/3/3/ 7. 6/
| 6 . 3//2//1 - | t6,/1/3/ 2 2/2/ 1/7,/ | 6/ 5 . 5 -
| 1' - 1'/ 1' 7/ ||: t7/5/3/ 3 0/7/ 6/7/ | 6/ 2. 0/6/ 6/5/
| 4//3// 4. 0/2/ 1/7,/ | 6/ 5. 5/1'/ 1'/7/ | t7/5/3/ 3 0/7/ 6/7/
| 6/ 2. 0/6/ 6/5/ | 4//3// 4 2/3/ 2. 1// 7,// | 1 - - -
}

If you have trouble to download, let me know.
I welcome suggestions.  Enjoy,

-- 
Want to write in Chinese on PC?  Get dngdng12.zip from 130.49.2.61 in
directory /pub/incoming.  With it, you can post in Chinese too.
From: yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: About Two Puzzles]
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:05:03 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <9211227250.AA72504@ccmail.uoregon.edu> Tuya@ccmail.uoregon.edu (Tuya) writes:
>          As I expected, no one got the answers :
>
>          1.  By the time John gets there, the dog will have traveled
>              ( 20 miles - the length of the dog ) for the dog cannot

Indeed, I think the correct answer is:

  2*(10 miles - the length of the dog)

:-) ;-)

-- 
//Yijun Ding, Pittsburgh //Go your way, be happy.
From: f0l8973@rigel.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Vectorized Chinese Font Lib
Date: 3 Jan 1993 20:19 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rigel.tamu.edu
Keywords: Chinese Font Vector
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <C0AuH2.M6v@cs.mcgill.ca>, haiying@cs.mcgill.ca (Haiying ZHANG) writes...
> 
>   I am surprised by your ingenuity. But before we get into any further
>discussion on vectorizing Chinese, I want to ask some simple questions.
>Pardon my ignorance towards vectorized fonts, is there any fonts of the
>kind available for any language or symbol for that matter? As you

Yes.  It is called Type I Postscript.  Another alternaty is True Type Font.
Also, there PCL 5, and many other standard.
From: lug@oak.ppc.ubc.ca (Guoqiano Lu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: pinyin reform
Date: 21 Dec 1992 08:09:24 GMT
Organization: University of B.C. Pulp & Paper Centre
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak.ppc.ubc.ca

In article <BzLFnM.B36@ulowell.ulowell.edu>, cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi) writes:
|> In article <01GSJW441NJ496VN9G@CWU.BITNET> TAN@CWU.BITNET writes:
|> >From:   IN%"HUSS8397@iscsvax.uni.edu" 19-DEC-1992 15:34:21.56
|> >
|> >
|> >
|> I am so glad people are interested in talking about PinYin. I believe any 
|> format is better than HanZi. HanZi was designed for writing on wooded logs. 
|> The wood log was precious
|> comparing with time they need to spend at the time. So HansZi was designed to 
|> have as much info as possible with limited space. Those info are desirable at 
|> ancient times , but not necessary. HanZi is an artistical wonder and a 
|> scientific and technolgical junk. Drop that thing sooner the better.
|> I believe as computer gets spreaded among Chinese people, The cry for PinYin 
|> will grow stronger.
|> 
|> 
|> 

Don't agree!

You may not  believe that a well trained Han Zi typing person can beat an English counterpart.

Computer is powerful but not that powerful to get rid of the  HanZi which has thousands years of  history.

By the way, don't worry about the typing issue. May be years later you don't even need to type.
Speaking will do the job for that. If you agree computer is getting more advanced.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: ykhsu@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (yung-kao.hsu)
Subject: Re: Newwer China
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:31:48 GMT

In article <C03GM9.82G@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> bihkyan@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Yang Yuanxin) writes:
>
>     I'm very sure, on the issur of HongKong and France, the Chinese
> government  have the support of most, if not all Chinese.A

	I read it somewhere that people in the special economic zone
	near HK is in favor of Patten's reform in a survey.
	Would you still be so certain of your perception of your people
	when they are given the chance of being better informed of the
	outside world?

	Are you in favor of MFN status to China? How is that compare
	to Chinese government's use of economic measure as a political
	tool and not putting people's wellfare first?

Yung-Kao Hsu

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: "micky wong" <micky.wong@canrem.com>
Subject: [news] prc closes french
Reply-To: "micky wong" <micky.wong@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: soc
Date: 23 Dec 92 21:47:30 EST

In Article: <BzpxrE.ECo@wilber.rich.nt.com>
   Subject: [news] PRC closes French Consultant
      From: zing@wilber.rich.nt.com (Leon Z. Lee) writes:


>CBS Radio just reported this morning that the PRC government have
>retaliated against the government of France for selling Mirage
>high-performance combat aircrafts to the ROC by closing the French
>Consultant in the city of Canton.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^

Please be corrected, in the above news "French Consultant" should read
"French Consulate".

No hard feelings, we all make mistakes when we are using English.  :-)


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From: peng@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Kaping Peng)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Need Words of the Song--"I Love You, China"
Date: 3 Jan 93 17:17:21 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania



Could anybody tell me the words of the song "I Love You, China"? I
have no the song at hand but I can remember the music.


Thanks


Kaping
From: gang@ms.uky.edu (Gang Li)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Use your judgement
Date: 24 Dec 92 16:29:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

mliu@pt.com (Fred Liu) writes:

...
>The reason I suggested not posting puzzles, pictures, etc.
>was not because I don't like puzzles.  I like to solve
...

I dare to ask one question here: what is the definition of "culture"?

>-- 
>Fred Liu, Performance Technologies Incorporated		mliu@pt.com
>315 Science Parkway, Rochester, New York 14620		uupsi!ptsys1!mliu

Please help those needies, all of our friends who work in a company. This
is part of Chinese culture as well as American culture, if I am not wrong.
Please donate to .....
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: guo@borneo.gmd.de (Guo Shuwei)
Subject: ? about CXTERM
Keywords: cxterm, input
Organization: GMD
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:25:43 GMT

Hi, dear netter:

    I want to install CXTERM in my SUN SPARK station with X window
R5. Everythings sound be OK, but there is a problem with the input.
I can only use QIU WEI as a input methed. For others (e.g PINYING...)
a mesage appear at the bottom of the cxterm window:

Unable to load input table for TONEPY  (for F3)
Unable to load input table for PY      (for F4)
Unable to load input table for QJ      (for F5)

   ......

I have already put the *.cit files for those input methods in ../dict.

Anybody know the reason? I need your help!

Thank you in advance!

send the solutions to guo@java.gmd.de or put then in scc

Have a nice new year!

Guo in Germany


Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan
From: utingli@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Tingli Pan)
Subject: Re: World Journal
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:51:13 GMT

In article <ljf5qdINN146@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> stlin@stevelin.Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Lin) writes:
>In article <BzoDqx.IMF@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> utingli@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Tingli Pan) writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>Though the owner is a KMT, the WJ apparently has no dedication to KMT. Though
>>>>>it is emphasized on Taiwan news, it is not a pro-KMT newspaper in general.
>>>>>
......

>>But the opinions of overseas Chinese are more conservative than today's
>>KMT. That is why it is criticising Li Denghui. 
>>
>>When ever I want to change my mood to pro-CCP, I'll read some from WJ's
>>editorial comments and Zhengmin. Otherwise I'll read People's Daily. It
>>works for me without any problem.
>>
>If folks ever noticed the recent readers articles about one China policy,
>I do not support Pan's view. The WJ has stepped toward a position that only
>provides a tool for people to speak out, no matter what the readers' political
>positions are. Constantly it provides a debate place and information sources.
>
As I mentioned before, the pro-KMT articles are the editorial comments.
About the readers articles, then I perfer scc, it is a much better "tool
for people to speak out, no matter what the readers' political positions
are". Not to say "a debate place and information sources". At least I
read a lot of your articles here instead of in WJ, and same to me too. 

>To the most mainland published newspaper, most of them remain in the learing
>stage, as that college students published newspaper. A huge land of China has
>no news to report? There are more than 40 pages from WJ and the readers request
>more coverage constantly. However, the mainland newspaper seems to have too
>much space to report, most of them are two small sheets.
>
The last 2 sentences have remind me of Central Daily, althoug it is not
published in a communist country, but in a "real free, democratic society".

>The newspaper and the book publication all indicate that mainlanders some how
>either are forced not to write or nothing to write, nothing to report, nothing
>to complain, or knowing nothing to write, the worst: don't care to write
>anything. Nothing is my business as the life goes under CCP ruling.
>
Do you know any books written by mainlanders. If not, please read them
first. As far as I know, few people consider Taiwang books serieously. 

>On the contrary, the properious the Taiwan publication business is one indication
>that people are happy and free in life, so they write, they report, they create
>things those attract people to buy, to read, to share.
>
Sounds another KMT properganda stuff. I'm familiar with such tone when I
listened to Taiwan broadcasting since 1969. Old habbit is hard to
change.

Tingli Pan
>
From: tang@kawa.ssl.fujitsu.co.jp (liyue tang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: post pictures or jokes on this group, please
Date: 24 Dec 92 05:43:53 GMT
Organization: FUJITSU SOCIAL SCIENCE LABORATORY LIMITED, JAPAN.

Hi, everybody.
This is the first time(?) for me to post something on this group. But
i have read it for a long time. I don't like any fight news that i
always past. Why don't we enjoy something else? 
Recently, there are many math problems, puzzles, jokes, and
pictures on here. I very like it.
But unfortunately, i cann't, because some reasons, get newsgroup
*.pictures
*.pictures.misc
and cann't access to any other network by ftp so i have to wait for
somebody posts pictures on here.
So, if somebody can kindly mail some pictures to me or posts them on
this group rather than *.pictures, i will very appreciate it. 
Thanks.
BTW, I do my work on SUN using unix.

			===========================
			   e-mail: tang@kawa.ssl.fujitsu.co.jp
From: lix@thames.bu.edu (Xiaowen Li)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Use your judgement
Date: 25 Dec 92 01:31:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University

In article <1992Dec24.112949.23434@ms.uky.edu> gang@ms.uky.edu (Gang Li) writes:
>mliu@pt.com (Fred Liu) writes:
<>...
>Please help those needies, all of our friends who work in a company. This
>is part of Chinese culture as well as American culture, if I am not wrong.

I think you are right. Puzzles, Dengmis etc., are part of culture.

>Please donate to .....

I have been retired. However, in case you forget the address, I am more
than please to help.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: achen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (positron)
Subject: Re: HIV test
Keywords: HIV test
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:34:30 GMT

In article <BzL8I7.GpD@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> utingli@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Tingli Pan) writes:
>In article <BzKL53.BG5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> swg9183@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Shiming  Wu) writes:
>>Hello netters:
>>Next month I will be back to Mainland for a short visit. I have heard that
>>upon landing on any Chinese airport, EVERY CHINESE CITIZEN must be taken
>>x cc of blood and 70 US$ for HIV test. How can I avoid being rip-off like
>>this in China? The local hospital offer free HIV test, does their certificate
>>work?   
>>Thanks.
>
>The green card holder doesn't need the test.
>
>Tingli Pan   


Because green card holders are all universally recognized
as being HIV positive already and are condemned to a
slow and painful death.






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