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A Real Friend of China in Mid-19th century
热度 2 何毓琦 2013-2-8 04:14
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) If you have lived and travelled through Northern California, you have no doubt come across the city name of Burlingame. What you may not know is the fact that this city was named after An ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|7109 次阅读|3 个评论 热度 2
[转载]Our Hyperconnected World
热度 3 何毓琦 2013-1-30 19:29
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求, please read my 公告栏 first) Reproduced below isanother Op-Ed piece by my favorite columnist. Although his target is primarily forthe American audience, his message has serious implications for the futureeconomic growth of China. The h ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|6292 次阅读|9 个评论 热度 3
The Origin of the Opium War – a British View
热度 6 何毓琦 2013-1-4 22:49
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) I have been on-and-off reading a book given to me by my son entitled “history of the World via 100 Objects (in the British Museum)”. It is a rather unusual book of 1 ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|8551 次阅读|13 个评论 热度 6
Random US-CHina Comparisons
何毓琦 2012-12-26 00:49
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) I have written earlier about the 1990 Institute in San Francisco http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1565-449810.html . Under the new management, she has started a short newsletter poi ...
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Lexington 300th Birthday Celebration
热度 4 何毓琦 2012-12-19 21:57
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) My home town, Lexington Massachusetts, is the birth place of American Revolution. The town is celebrating her 300 th birthday in 2012-2013 – a year long festival with many eve ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|7987 次阅读|12 个评论 热度 4
Pay it Forward
热度 6 何毓琦 2012-12-7 21:40
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求, please read my 公告栏 first) “Payback” is a well–usedEnglish word that has both good ( 回報) andbad connotations ( 報復 ). Lesser known and usedis the phrase “pay it forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|11275 次阅读|13 个评论 热度 6
Chinese Politics Past and Present: After the 18th Congress
热度 2 何毓琦 2012-12-1 22:24
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) A Harvard Conference on 11/30-12/1, 2012 http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/cppp Out of curiosity, I went to the opening panel session of this conf ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|8029 次阅读|4 个评论 热度 2
Volunteer Activities and Philanthropy on US College Campuses
热度 2 何毓琦 2012-11-22 01:32
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) My granddaughter (Melody Kim) goes to school at the University of Southern California (USC) and majors in Journalism and Public Relations. College students in the US ...
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Harvard's Financial Profile
何毓琦 2012-11-2 20:07
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) Harvard has a 30 billion dollar endowment but it still must carefully manage her expenses and make her spending cost-effective. Here is a interview with the Vice President of finance and the Executive VP of Harv ...
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