Note that the date on these entries is slightly off, as I am posting from China onto a server in Pasadena, California in the USA.

<a href="http://www.asianweek.com/2002_06_28/opinion_emil.html">Bill Moyers on China</a>?  Bill Moyers did a presentation to the PBS executives at their annual meeting on a series he has funding for:  "Becoming American: The Chinese Experience."  Bill Moyers?  That's right, and with only a few Asian-American producers.  The author of this article is skeptical and mentions other documentaries Chinese-Americans.  There have been quite a few since the "model minority" has given rise to talented TV producers.  However, these documentaries tend to be tinged an activist bias, and/or a sappy "pity our hard lives" bias.  It will be nice to watch a documentary about Chinese Asian America where the final say comes from a non-Asian (but still American) perspective.

An article titled "<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-06/30/content_462982.htm">China-U.S. Housing Demonstration Project Starts in Beijing</a>" (from Frank Yu's <a href="http://www.brandrecon.com/newspage.html">NewsPage</a>) talks about a joint US-China project to build a couple  "New York-style housing project" in certain areas of Beijing and Shanghai.  My first thoughts went back to the early immigrant days of New York and the awful conditions of the tenement housing.  My second reaction was to the words "housing project" which don't have a very good connotation either ("the projects" etc).  However, after reading the article I came away with a very good feeling.  This is a cool example of cooperation between the Chinese and Chinese-Americans.  

I just hope it doesn't become another abandoned or half-empty housing development.  An article a few weeks ago stated that housing in Beijing is the most expensive per square meter in China, which on one hand is hard to believe when you look at places like Shanghai or Guangdong.  But at the same time it is an emerging reality.  Places like the old Muslim neighborhood are being torn down to make way for modern apartments.  It's a shame.

Today is a good day for articles.  I found this <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/may2002/nf20020529_1844.htm">interview with Tomas Casas Klett</a>, a Spanish businessman who owns five companies in China.  He is a very interesting fellow, and is not just spouting the usual line about China.

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