China-watching

[poliphilo]

Joe has been showing me the Kung fu comedies of Stephen Chow. They're a bit Buster Keaton, a bit Police Academy, a bit Popeye the Sailorman (with chi in place of spinach.)

I reckon we need to be educating ourselves about the Chinese- seeing as how they'll be taking over the role of top nation sometime in the course of the next century.

Learning about China is a project I've been proposing to myself ever since I fell in love with Michelle Yeoh in 1999. Thus far I haven't made a whole lot of progress.

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[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I've been renting via Netflix some Extreme Engineering programs, and we watched last night the construction of the Hong Kong International Airport. What a prodigious project! And completed in seven years before the Chinese took Hong Kong back from England--they were afraid the Chinese government would scrap the 12 billion dollar project.

It's amazing what they accomplished so quickly--twenty three miles of two-story massive bridges built to withstand typhoons and also accommodate trains and trucks; new tunnels; new highway systems built on artificial coastline; and an entire new island, on which was built the amazing airport, the largest indoor structure in the world!

They did it in eight years.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess they had the chi flowing for them...

That's pretty amazing.

My dad was in that kind of work- pipelines and stuff- but he didn't work on the Hong Kong project (so far as I know)