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From: furonhao@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rowggen Fu)
Subject: West Gingseng for Sale
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:26:50 GMT


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.hongkong
From: lee@rinconada.stanford.edu (Fung Fung Lee)
Subject: Looking Back From 2992 - The disastrous 21st century
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 07:25:16 GMT


There is an interesting article appeared on the current issue (12/26 - 1/8)
of the weekly magazine "The Economist" (pages 17-19).
In addition to its serious implications, the article contains some 
interesting speculations, yes, about China, Taiwan and Japan.
Following are some excerpts:

"... Out of this confusion arose two new great powers, which between them
came to dominate the 22nd and 23rd centuries. The first, predictably, though
not many people realised in time where the statistics were pointing -- was
China.  ... It was not, however, to become a democrarcy. ... They struck a
deal with their former Nationalist enemies, where unification with Taiwan
took place in 2007, and reunified China settled down to be a market economy
under an authoritarian political leadership. 

This China's first big foreign-policy challenge was what to do with Japan.
Many Japanese, seeing the way things were going in China, were by the end
of the 1990s arguing that if Japan wanted to keep its independence it must
become a nuclear power. ..., in 2009, China delivered its veto.

The detonation of a Chinese nuclear warhead over the sea off Yokohama
caused no casualties, except for unlucky crew of a tanker that had ignored
the warnings. It was the last martial use of nuclear power. ... "

How likely is this future?
Will Taiwan be united with the Mainland in 2007 after
Hong Kong's return in 1997? 
Will China ever use its nuclear warheads to prevent Japan from 
becoming a nuclear power?
Guess what the other "new" great power is.
--
Fung F. Lee
lee@umunhum.stanford.edu
~{@n7c7e~}
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: chris@austin.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: NTSC->PAL conversion info needed (rather long)
Originator: chris@ng.austin.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:55:03 GMT
Reply-To: cwlng@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Organization: What organization?
Keywords: video, convert, help


In article <1h55a4INN846@roche.csl.sri.com>, kzhang@cisco.com (Kui Zhang) writes:
> Hi,there,
> 
> I remember seeing a posting about a video format conversion service.
> 
> Could anyone repost From 

This is what I've saved. (A bit too long. Too lazy to edit it).
I have never used them so no opinion.

Chris


>From jmingxu@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Jianming Xu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.australian,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.new-zealand,soc.culture.french,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: PAL -> NTSC conversion
Keywords: conversion
Date: 4 Feb 92 17:13:42 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.hongkong
Distribution: usa


fvest@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>I've seen the question asked in one form of another, but have yet to see
>any answers.  My mother received a PAL videotape from the UK.  She, of
>course, can't view it on her NTSC VHS VCR.  Is there anyone who has the
>capability of copying this?  

Here is the place that we use for such conversion:

 DAKE International 
 3208 Foxboro Dr.
 Richardson, TX 75082
 (214) 234-8518 1pm-9pm

You pay $18.50 per tape which includes a new tape and shipping.
They can convert any TV system: PAL, SECAM to NTSC or vice versa.


From awdprime!auschs!panews!uunet!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!acd!amanning Tue Feb  4 21:40:23 1992
Article 13374 of soc.culture.hongkong
>From amanning@acd.uucp (Andrew Manning)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: PAL -> NTSC conversion
Keywords: conversion
Date: 4 Feb 92 17:57:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCAR/Atmospheric Chemistry Division

In article <34112@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> jmingxu@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Jianming Xu) writes:
>
>fvest@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>>I've seen the question asked in one form of another, but have yet to see
>>any answers.  My mother received a PAL videotape from the UK.  She, of
>>course, can't view it on her NTSC VHS VCR.  Is there anyone who has the
>>capability of copying this?  
>
>Here is the place that we use for such conversion:
>
> DAKE International 
> 3208 Foxboro Dr.
> Richardson, TX 75082
> (214) 234-8518 1pm-9pm
>
>You pay $18.50 per tape which includes a new tape and shipping.
>They can convert any TV system: PAL, SECAM to NTSC or vice versa.

Another option is:

SOMI International
50 Summer Street
Edison
NJ 08820

Phone 908 548 3065

They charge $12.99 per tape plus $3 for UPS - a little cheaper - and they
claim same day service. 

Andrew


From awdprime!auschs!panews!uunet!uunet!think.com!spdcc!dirtydog.ima.isc.com!ispd-newsserver!dj Tue Feb  4 23:11:46 1992
Article 12933 of soc.culture.british
>From dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones 253-1987)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.african.american,soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Digital Conversion
Keywords: PAL. NTSC, SECAM
Date: 3 Feb 92 16:30:40 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Eastman Kodak

In article <1992Feb3.142956.5626@cbfsb.att.com> kb@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (konju.briggs) writes:
>
>I would strongly recommend to anyone interested in VHS video tape
>conversion from NTSC to PAL and vice versa to use SOMI International.
>I have used their services and found them to be professional, and of course
>their price is good ($12.99/tape plus $3 for UPS).
>Here is their address
>
>SOMI International
>50 Summer Street
>Edison, NJ 08820.
>Phone 908 548 3065.  

While I haven't yet used their services, I did try to call them.  I got
an answering machine with the curt announcement "Please leave message"
spoken with an (East) Indian accent.  Big professional operation here,
guys.


-- 
| Dave Jones (dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com) --------------------------|
| Eastman Kodak Co.	Rochester, NY 14653-7300                      |
| C++ will do for C what Algol-68 did for Algol! -----------------|
From: viczhu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (yi zhu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: none
Date: 30 Dec 92 09:50:47 GMT
Reply-To: viczhu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (yi zhu)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: viczhu@happy.cc.utexas.edu


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: ping@bnlux1.bnl.gov (Shiping Zhang)
Subject: Re: Yan Xing and Qi Gong, Is It Science?
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:55:41 GMT

In article <X5b=V-+@engin.umich.edu> chen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Jian Chen) writes:
>Yan Xing came to Ann Arbor to give a Qi Gong lecture last year.
>I attended his lecture. During his lecture, I followed his instruction
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  What kind of instructions?  Did his Qi Gond force you to follow his
  instruction or you just followed his instruction with full consciousness?
  I thought people should disobey his instructions and let his Qi Gong take
  over your consciousness.  That is, let a third person tell you that you
  did what you were instructed to do, BUT you would absolutely deny that
  you followed his instruction, or better, deny you did anything at all,
  except admitting, for example, that your arms ARE out of your control
  and ARE shaking.

>and, after 30 minites, my arms keep shaking and I can not control

  You sure it's the effect of HIS Qi Gong, or just responce/consequence/
  reaction of whatever you did yourself, under his instruction? 
  Do you still remember his instruction and do it by yourself and
  get the same effect (just curious)?

>my arm. When I went to restroom and left the lecture hall, the
>Qi Gong effect disappears. I also saw many people lost their control
>and laugh or cry. From my personal experience, Yan Xing's Qi Gong
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  Laughing is probably understandable, but crying seems not. :-)

>is a real thing although I do not understand it. Probably, it is 
>something beyong today's science.

  I seem believe in Qi Gong (not necessary Yan Xing's, though), due to
  so much has been talked about it.  But I have never had a chance to
  meet any one who claims capable of exerting Qi on others.

-ping
From: math1pu@elroy.uh.edu (Luo, Youngping)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: An Old Arithmatic Problem
Date: 31 Dec 1992 14:45 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <BzvqEq.K6@cs.psu.edu>, wang@math.psu.edu writes...
>In article 92Dec24102412@dblab3.dblab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp, chx@dblab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp (Chen Han Xiong) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec18.030842.3141@news.cs.brandeis.edu> xi@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>>
>>
>>  >> 5 * ( 5 - 1/5) = 5*4.8 = 24
>>
>>It's a funny you calculated this way. So,
>>
>>7*(3+3/7) = 7*3.4285714... =(?)= 24
>>--
> 
>Sure, why not?  What's wrong with this?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

(5*5*5-5)/5=(125-5)/5=120/5=24

SOMETIMES I THINK I LEARN MORE IF I CLOSE ALL MY BOOKS.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: yan@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Yongfei Yan)
Subject: Announcement of the Establishment of SUOAA
Summary: SUOAA is established, e-mail me you e-mail address if you are
		from Shandong University.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:44:18 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada
Keywords: Alumni, Shandong University

*****************************************************************
* If you are from Shandong University, I would be very          *
*  appreciative if you can e-mail me your email address and     *
*  other alumni addresses if you know.                          *
*															    *
*  Remember: your friends and classmates are looking forward to *
*            hearing from you!!!                                *
*  															    *
*  You may send an e-mail message to yan@cs.uregina.ca if you   *
*  don't want to be involved. Shandong University Overseas      *
*  Alumni Association (SUOAA) appreciates your wish to join in  *
*  and understands your inclination to leave also.              *
*****************************************************************


******************************************************************
*       Shandong University Overseas Alumni Association          *
******************************************************************

	The association is established by overseas students and visiting scholars 
	from Shandong University.The association is a non-political, 
	non-profitable organization.

	The objectives of the association are to:
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

1. Enhance communications among Alumni and organize social activities;

   We should probably set up an Alumni network to promote more
   scientific and job-oriented ( more important to most of our members )
   information exchange. We can also help each other find old pals and
   classmates.

2. Serve members' interests;

	The organization has the right and responsibility to represent
	and serve our members. The association has the right to contact
	any institution or make any statements on behalf of its members.

3. Promote scientific and technological exchanges between China,
   especially Shandong University, and overseas organizations;

	Practically, don't forget to give a seminar at Shandong
	University whenever you have a chance to visit China.

4. Promote involvement in helping China into the 21st century. 

   We are walking toward the 21st century, which obviously belongs 
   to our Asians. Our history books have been filled with foreign 
   invasions and repressions, but our brothers and sister 
   are writing a new chapter. We should not be buried with books 
   and concerned with only bread anymore. Let's be involved in this 
   great era.

   The association is run according to democratic procedures:
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

1. The association is run by president, vice-president, and committee
   members.

2. President, vice-president and committee members are elected by voting.

	The cheapest and fastest way is to vote by e-mail.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.korean,soc.culture.japan
From: huangz@topaz.ucq.edu.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: What happened to the Long March?
Date: 25 Dec 92 15:29:23 AET
Followup-To: soc.culture.china
Organization: University of Central Queensland, Australia

In article <8228@news.duke.edu>, feng@phy.duke.edu (Yutao Feng) writes:
> Anyone knows the detail about what actually happened to the Chinese rocket
> Long March II, lauching the Australia communications satellite?
> Peter Jennings said on ABC last night that the satellite was lost. But didn't
> give details. The Long March is said to have a 100% success rate in the past,
> as I heard from the chinese official media. 

I don't know who has told a lie, you or the Chinese official media. The Long 
March did experence failure before. This time it's the second Australian 
satellite launched by Chinese. The first one was launched successfully several 
months ago, but in its second try. The first launch was failed in March 
(or May). The rocket was fired but not lifted yet, and the satellite was 
saved. I saw the Australian director's tear on TV, but actually we should
cry. 

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong
From: y70q@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (LAM)
Subject: Re: On the Baby (Re: HK Airport Project
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:09:00 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.131606.1@cua.edu> 54yang@cua.edu writes:
>a slave (colony) give suggestions to his master???

Please don't be so extreme. Practically, can you give me any appropiate
examples of how HK people work as a slave?

>no, not follow, but dictate, giving colonial orders!!!

Hay hay hay, can you give a clear definition of dictator?

>cooperation is not one-side only thing.  When Patten introduced some
>reform measures, had he consulted from the Chinese government? Had he
>made any cooperative intents with the Chinese government? NO!

But China government trends to delay the airport project, making
the cost goes higher. How can you explain that?

>As I understand this issue, the issue is still between UK and CHINA,
>about HK.  The British government may be enjoying right now while
>watching HK people are divided.  This is what they hoped and wanted.
>Do they want to cooperate?  Do they willingly return its colony back
>to China and keep it wealthy, healthy?   I doubt.  You'd better
>give some doubt before take a stand with UK at this point.

Besides doubt, I think suggestions are more welcomed.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: nlu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu)
Subject: Re: Hus Fu and the Japanese
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:27:55 GMT

In article <105710@bu.edu> lix@thames.bu.edu (Xiaowen Li) writes:

>That is right. Ying Zheng, Liu Che, Yang Guang, [Ming] JiaJin and
>[Qing] QianLong, as well as [PRC] Mao are all the same kind of jerk
>emperors. They all have some smartness, but all put personal feeling
>above people's (then country's) interest. So their damage to the
>country are usually greater than other stupid emperors.

I disagree with grouping Ying Zheng, Liu Che, and Ai4 Sin1 Jue2 Lo2 Hong2 Li4
with the other two (Yang Guang, Ju1 Hou4 Zhong3 (I think that is how it's
pronounced)).  They all made significant contributions, while Yang and Ju did
pretty much nothing beneficial.

Ying Zheng's building of the Great Wall was often used as an "evidence" against
him, but his dynasty actually did a maximum of 30% of the construction of it,
and it proved to be highly useful in defending the country against the Huns.
Liu Che defended his empire well against Hun invasions.  Ai Sin Jue Lo Hong Li
also made significant military contributions in defending the country (mainly
against the Dzungarian Khanate).

Meanwhile, Yang Guang *might* have tried to imitate Ying and Liu, but he was
a military failure.  He wasn't even able to defeat the small Koguyro(sp)
Kingdom, and was once almost captured by the Turkish Khanate to the north.
Unlike Ying and Liu, who spent most of the money they did spend on the
military (which is arguably wrong, but besides the point right here), Yang
spent the money on building palaces everywhere, particularly at Loyang and
Yangzhou.  Also, his concubines number 60,000, which is at least 3 times as
many as Liu Che and Ying Zheng.

Ju Ho Zhong was bad because he, unlike the others, were terribly stupid in
being manipulated by Yen Song and his son Yen Shi Fan.  In this regard, though,
he wasn't all that worse than the other Ming emperors, but that is faint
praise...  (Most Ming emperors are stupid and/or tyrannic.  When you compare
the people slaughtered by Ying Zheng, for example, to the people slaughtered
by Ju Yuen Jang, you'll see how Ying Zheng really wasn't that bad.)

>I guess he was only luckier than Yang Guang. If He Guang were ambitious,
>Western Han may not need to wait for Wang Mang.

True, but then, he saw He Guang's personality well; if He Guang had been
ambitious, Liu Che might have been able to see it and not entrust his son to
him.  (And Liu Che didn't entrust the regency to He Guang alone either; Jin
Ze Di and Tien Chien Chu were also powerful at the time.)
From: pchan@acs.bu.edu (Patrick Chan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Joan Chen naked GIFs
Date: 1 Jan 93 23:38:14 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <C06IKH.C3L@sdf.lonestar.org> smj@sdf.lonestar.org (Stephen M. Jones) writes:
>In article <1992Dec31.081643.15666@netcom.com> jturley@netcom.com (James Turley) writes:
>>Anyone have any GIFs of Joan Chen or Gong Li?
>
>bastard...
>

I agree!!!!!!!
Damn bastard!

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: jfeng@vax.cns.muskingum.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Gi Gong:  scienceor religion?
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:34:17 GMT
Organization: Muskingum College

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
> 


**** I am very uncomfortable with the notion that Yan's Gi Gong is science.  To
me, Gi Gong demonstrated by Mater Yan is becoming more of religion than of
science.  Yan's Gi Gong is more mental than material, more psychological than
physiological, more mysterious than truthful, more religious than scientific. 
If Yan and his disciples believe what Gi Gong, Yan's Gi Gong rather can do
against all odds, that's fine.  But if he is trying to persuade people to
blindly believe in him in the name of science, it offends me and I think it is
an insult to our intelligence.  If we think Yan's Gi Gong as a kind of
religion, let's leave it alone and not make a big fuss over it.
From: yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: ascii Chinese fonts
Date: 23 Dec 92 18:03:16 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Dec23.165415.24633@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:
>
>Is there a public domain utility that people are using to add Chinese
>characters to their messages?

You can use gb2text.exe to translate gb to ascii text.  See my new
signature:

-- 
Want to write in Chinese on PC?  Try dngdng12.zip from 130.49.2.61
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.china