Chinese becoming popular with US learners
XinHuaNet - BEIJING, Feb.23 -- While English learning has been the rage in China for decades, Chinese as a foreign language is just starting to catch on on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. The study of Chinese used to be concentrated on a few college campuses and in large ethnic Chinese communities on both coasts of North America.
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Noodle Prices Rise, Along With Chinese Tempers
NYTimes - Feb.23 - LANZHOU, China — One difference between China's remote west and the rest of the country is what people choose to put in their stomachs. Noodles, not rice, are the favorite dish, none more so than the steaming bowl of beef noodles named after this decaying provincial capital on the Yellow River.
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Chinese Bloggers Grapple With the Profit Motive
NYTimes - SHANGHAI, March 5 — Last October, a colleague persuaded Xu Jinglei, a Chinese actress and filmmaker, to start writing her own Web log. Now, five months later, Ms. Xu, 31, is the country's most popular blogger, and her runaway success has given rise to an online debate here about the economic value of blogs and who should profit from them.
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