Chinese Literature Prize

Gao Xingjian / 高行健 received the nobel prize of literature in 2000. The press release for the prize refers notably to "soul Mountain". Gao Xingkian was a recognized artist in Beijing in the 80's. However his work has been banned in China for many years and he is a French citizen since 1997 or 99 (depending on which bio you read). While in China he translated several major author in Chinese and while in France he has written several plays in French.

Nobel prize link:

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President Back Track, Barack, Barry Soetoro, Obama is a very smooth telepromter reader and can read all kinds of good promises written by his speech writers!
By the way he has not yet ever performed one promise he has ever made! Quite the contrary professional news hounds are realizing that in actuality, whatever Obama says he is going to do it becomes just the opposite! Why in God's name this puppet to the Globalist Bankers would win a 'Nobel Peace Prize" is beyond comprehension and subtracts from any credibility this award might have ever carried!
Pres. Barack Obama promised to take troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, in reality he is increasing the amount of forces he will place in Afghanistan by 40,000 more military personnell, plus adding military contractors as well as, having started a new war on another front in Pakistan - at the same time advocating a war against Iran and threatening to allow Israel to Nuke Iran! This Marxist man is in the midst of a great effort to take away constitutional rights from American citizens re: First Ammendment Right: Freedom of speech and Second Ammendment Right: The right to bare arms in the act of self defence!
Barack has created on laws in his cap and trade environment bill to take away land,
property and the right to grow food on farms and gardens etc. from the American citizens - amongst other communistic manouvers!
The man is a Marxist Dictator who sets in motion conditions to set up policies and laws that Global Bilderbergers of the, "Bilderberg Group", require to set up their "New World Order", and place American citizens under their rule as slaves!
Barack has committed many High Treasonous Acts against "The Constitution of The United States of America", and this is the man that a board making a decision on who should be the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize would pick?

This leaves much room for the question to be asked, "What kind of incompitent politically biased "Nimcompoops" would choose president Obama?

Hello,

I enjoyed reading about the Dwarf Empire. I will make sure that when I come to Kunming I will go visit the park and take many pictures. I am an American and am hopeful to someday teach English to Chinese People in Kunming. If I am situated close to The Dwarf Empire I would glady teach any of the little people English for free, if they would like. My wife is Chinese and resides in Chongqing. We are considering on moving to Kunming.

Sincerely,

Jack P ( scpd2555@bellsouth.net )

hmm I wonder if it is possible to study kungfu there.... or is it more a touristic place?

I've seen it a couple of weeks ago on cinaoggi.it:

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By the way, craziest place in China!

Fascinating story Chris. I think I'll go check it out too. How curious.

Speechless...The village looks like something I'd have drawn in third grade. Shuddering at the thought of Lin's idea of "promotional work" that IS humiliating. I miss KM.

I assume this test only involved a very limited amount of traffic since the North-South traffic in Kunming today was worse than imaginable. Cool that the IMAX is ready to go. They are awesome.

We put the date below the headline... the day it goes up it says "today", the next day it says "yesterday", after two days the date is displayed.

that open bit of road in the photo looks far from safe... i may be seeing things (cough, cough), but are there people walking on the road? wacky.

thanks to my google news alert i know when this was publish and so i know what date the "tomorrow" you refer to is. could be cool to have a date on your stories though. or is there one and i missed it?

I am not buying HoGood's argument because Nestle has always very actively discouraged "Coffee-Mate" from becoming genercized. It does this by always (as far as I know) referring to it as "Coffee-Mate Non Dairy Creamer." This way, the Coffee-Mate is the brand name and the "Non Dairy Creamer" is what it is. I think this alone makes HoGood's argument a loser.

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If you develop a product and brand name that dominates the market to the extent that it b/c a generic term for sth, you should not be penalized for that, and you should definitely retain the rights to your trademark. That's why royalties are paid for public singing of the song "Happy Birthday to You" even though it's b/c so common as to be the standard, at least in countries where intellectual property rights are honored.

interesting stuff: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark

sounds like there's a difference of opinion on this subject across different jurisdictions - the wikipedia article contrasts the US and Germany. so, a key question is the view the Chinese legal system takes. any Chinese lawyers out there?

this must be a concern for any corporation with a major brand, but especially so if the legal environment involved has a protectionist streak.

The argument is not at all flimsy if in fact the term 加菲伴侣 has in fact become colloquial and used to refer to all coffee flavour additives. It's something called a genericized trademark. Look it up.