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Chinese Inventor Creates Revolutionary Travel Sleep Aid
A new invention was put to the test this week. Inventor Chen Jianquan calls it the Train Buddy. It's two adjustable cushions that support the head and chest to allow for a little shuteye on a crowded journey. And Chen's timing couldn't be better.
It's the height of China's busiest travel season. During Chinese New Year holidays, 32 million travelers are expected to be packed into crowded trains. The seats are hard, and the journey could last several days.
[Chen Jianquan, Chinese Inventor and IT Programmer]:
When I was in college in the 90s, I had to take a train to Beijing. After I slept in a hard seat overnight, I was in pain everywhere; in my waist, my neck and my eyes. I wanted to invent something to help people in stiff seats sleep comfortably overnight,
Chen Jianquan brought his invention on a train traveling from Shanghai to China's northeastern Jilin province on Thursday (February 7).
[Chen Jianquan, Chinese Inventor and IT Programmer]:
I'm quite optimistic about the future development of the sleep aid. Passengers who buy tickets for hard seat train need this train buddy. There's the same demand (for those who ride) airplanes.
So far, Chen has sold more than 700 of his 'Train Buddy', mostly through China's biggest e-commerce platform, Taobao.
[Zhang Qichao, 22-Year Old University Student]:
I think this is quite comfortable. The design is very user friendly. The angles and pads can be adjusted. It's easy to assemble and carry. I think it's convenient and functional.
The Chinese New Year falls on February 10 this year. Officially, the celebration lasts ten days, kicking off the year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac.
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The National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine (Chinese: 國民革命忠烈祠; pinyin: Guómín Gémìng Zhōngliècí) is a shrine in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, dedicated to the war dead of the Republic of China.
Built on Chingshan Mountain and overseeing the Keelung River in Taipei's Zhongshan District in 1969, the Martyrs Shrine recalls the architecture of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in Beijing's Forbidden City. The structure houses the spirit tablets of about 390,000 persons killed, among other engagements, during the Xinhai Revolution, Northern Expedition, Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, and the First and Second Taiwan Strait Crises. A changing of the honor guard from the various branches of the Republic of China Military, similar to the rituals at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, take place at the shrine.
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The Pelkor Chode monastery and the old town of Gyantse (Tibet - China)
(EN) The Palcho Monastery or Pelkor Chode Monastery or Shekar Gyantse is the main monastery in Gyantse, Gyangzê County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet, in the Nyangchu river valley. The monastery precinct is a complex of structures, which, apart from the Tsuklakhang Monastery, also includes its Kumbum, believed to be the largest such structure in Tibet, that is most notable for its 108 chapels in its several floors and the old Dzong or fort.
The earliest history of the Penchor Chode Monastery is traced to the ninth century. Pelkhor-tsen, son of Langdarma (anti Buddhist King of West Tibet) after whom the monastery is named as Pelkor Chode, lived here and attempted to perpetuate the Yarlung dynasty of his father who had been assassinated.
Gyantse town was established between the 14th and 15th centuries as a feudatory, with the Sakya sect playing a crucial overlord role. During this period, the Buddhist monuments were also built with the Dzong (the old fort) followed by the Kumbum and the Pekor monastery. All three structures have been dated. Tsuklakhang monastery was built by prince Rabton Kunzang Phak between 1418--25. However, Gyantse's historical importance declined by the end of the 15th century.
The Tsuklakhang, the main temple of the monastery was built in 1418--1428 by Rabten Kunzang Phak, the second Prince of Gyantse, who was a devotee of Kedrub Je (1385--1438), one of Tsongkapa's leading disciples later recognized as the 1st Panchen Lama. It became an important centre of the Sakya sect of Tibetan Buddhism. The Kumbum or Tashigomang, commenced construction in 1427 and completed by 1437, also by prince Rabten Kunzang Phak. Several other buildings followed, with Buddhist sects such as Sakyapa, Zhalupa and Gelukpa building religious colleges or hermitages; 16 colleges were recorded by the end of 17th century, increasing to 18 by the start of the 19th century. However most of them were later closed. Now, only two colleges of the Gelukpa order remain, which are stated to be of little consequence.
Another testament to Prince Rabten Kunzang Phak's period is the public display of two gigantic paintings; (Thangkas) of Shakyamuni Buddha flanked by his two principal disciples, of Maitreya, Manjushri and many more on the occasion of the Gyantse festival that is held in the fourth lunar month of the Tibetan calendar. This practice was started between 1418 and 1419 in the northeast corner of the monastery walls, known as Goku Tramsa.
In 1904, the town and monastery were attacked by British soldiers under the leadership of Francis Younghusband (commanding 1000 troops, 10,000 servants, and 4,000 yaks) and although most of the damage was later restored, bullet holes from this attack remain in the monastery to this day. Following the capture of Gyantse fort, the agreement signed by the Tibetan Regent, resulted in establishment of British Trade Missions at Gyantse and Mt. Kailash in Tibet. In 1906, the British signed an agreement with the Chinese authorities, which established their influence over Tibet and thus effectively ending both British and Russian influence.
It was partially destroyed in 1959 after a revolt against Chinese rule. It was ransacked again during the Cultural Revolution, but has since been largely restored.[8][9] Prior to the uprising there were 1520 monks but now they number less than 80. (wikipedia)
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Bob Inglis is the Executive Director of the Energy and Enterprise Initiative based at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Inglis founded and launched the national, grassroots organization in July 2012. E&EI is guided by the conservative principles of free enterprise and economic growth, limited government, liberty, accountability and reasonable risk avoidance to solve our nation's energy and climate challenges.
Inglis represented South Carolina's Fourth Congressional District (Greenville, Spartanburg, Union counties) for 12 years in the U.S. House of Representatives (1993-98 and 2005-10). He was first elected to Congress in 1992 after having never run for public office. He spent six years in the U.S. House and unsuccessfully challenged Democratic U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings in 1998. In the fall of 2004, he was re-elected to the open House seat he had previously held and went on to serve another six-year stint in Congress. In the midst of the financial crisis in 2010, he lost his bid for re-election.
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N. Korean leader visits Mt. Baekdu with key aides ahead of year-end deadline in nuke talks
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North Korea is sending a number of signals to the U.S. as its self-imposed year-end deadline for nuclear talks draws near.
Following Kim Jong-un's symbolic visit to Mount Baekdu this week, the second such visit in about two months, the regime is also going to convene a major ruling party meeting later this month.
Oh Jung-hee has the latest developments in North Korea.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits Mount Baekdu once again on a white horse.
Pyeongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Wednesday that Kim looked around revolutionary battle sites in area and ascended Mount Baekdu.
He was accompanied by Choe Ryong-hae, viewed as his second-in-command, some top military officials, and his wife Ri Sol-ju.
Kim Jong-un said that his visit aims to instill the indefatigable revolutionary spirit of Mount Baekdu into party members, the people and the soldiers when all of us are in the drive to build a powerful, self-reliant socialist country, despite the unprecedented pressure imposed by the imperialists.
That is Kim trying to stir up the atmosphere to work towards achieving independent economic growth despite the crushing international sanctions.
Kim visits Mount Baekdu whenever he has to mull over major political or diplomatic policy decisions.
Meanwhile, North Korea is also holding a fifth plenary meeting of its ruling party's central committee later this month.
Pyeongyang's state media says... they'll discuss the changing circumstances inside and outside the regime... as well as what it calls a Korean Revolution.
The Workers' Party's plenary session usually decides the party's major policies.
The government will be on close watch because the meeting is to take place right before Kim Jong-un's New Year's Address.
North Korea has continuously warned that it will walk a new path if its talks with the U.S. fail by the end of the year.
And Kim's latest visit to Mount Baekdu... and the planned ruling party gathering show that the North is currently devising that new path.
Kim Jong-un's New Year's Address on January 1st next year will lay out where the regime is heading amid its months-long stalled denuclearization talks with the U.S.
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A World in Revolution: The Inevitable Backlash against Global Elites
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The Trump election and populist movements in Europe and Asia can be considered akin to true revolutionary movements--ideologically driven; brought about by a slow-down in social mobility, elite factionalization and decline in public goods; and pursuing a revolutionary agenda including propagandist reshaping of reality and a radical reconfiguration of international relations. This talk will show the common demographic factors behind these developments, and examine whether historical lessons can be drawn regarding the durability of such revolutionary movements in modern democratic states.
Jack A. Goldstone is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, a Senior Fellow of the Mercatus Center, and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. Previously, Dr. Goldstone was on the faculty of Northwestern University and the University of California, and has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, Stanford University, UCLA, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the California Institute of Technology. He has received the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship award from the American Sociological Association, the Arnoldo Momigliano Prize, the Barrington Moore Jr. Award, the Myron Weiner Award, and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the JS Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Mellon Foundation. He also served as the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor to the American Academy in Berlin.
A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Goldstone is also an Academic Fellow of the European Policy Council, and serves on the International Advisory Board of the Gaidar Institute (Moscow). He led a National Academy of Sciences study of USAID’s democracy assistance policies, and has served as a consultant on state fragility to USAID, Britain’s DFID, and the OECD. He helped lead the Political Instability Task Force initiated by the office of the U.S. Vice-President, and co-developed in State Fragility Index now published by the Center for Systemic Peace.
Dr. Goldstone’s research focuses on the impact of global population changes on social and economic development. His 2010 essay in Foreign Affairs – “The New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends that will Change the World” – has been widely cited as a critical guide to the impact of future population change. He has been a keynote speaker at events in Oslo, Moscow, Antalya, Delhi, Beijing, Berlin, Aspen and New York, and appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, Russia Today, and Fox News.
His recent books include Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics (Oxford U. Press, 2011) and Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford U. Press 2014). Prof. Goldstone blogs on global politics and economic trends at newpopulationbomb.com.
Dr. Lynda Bell, “Consuming Revolution: The Museum and the Gallery in Post-Socialist Beijing”
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Dr. Lynda Bell (UC, Riverside) “Consuming Revolution: The Museum and the Gallery in Post-Socialist Beijing”
Thursday, November 13, 2014, 12pm to 2pm, PL-4005
Talk Description: In 2011, a massive renovation of the exhibit on modern Chinese history housed at the National Museum on Tiananmen Square was completed. This permanent exhibit, “Road to Rejuvenation,” presents the most authoritative official view of the revolution led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the very political party that still governs China today. This talk explores the history of the exhibit and its treatment of the most controversial episodes in mass politics led by the CCP during the revolutionary years—the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Bell then contrasts the “Road to Rejuvenation” and two long-term artists’ projects in Beijing, launched by the artists’ gallery called Long March Space, that also consider the legacies of China’s revolutionary era. The talk explores the contrasts between public and private consumption of revolution, in an effort to understand not only how an instrumental historical narrative first crafted during the socialist era is being reshaped, but also how collective memory of revolution operates through hegemonic negotiation over cultural expression in the post-socialist present.
Speaker Bio: Lynda Bell, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, is a specialist in modern Chinese history. She lived in China from 1979 to 1982, conducting her doctoral research on modern Chinese silk production while based at Nanjing University. She has worked as a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing and at Peking University; and as the Faculty Director for the University of California’s Education Abroad Program based in Beijing. Bell’s current work explores the history and memory of 20th-century Chinese revolutionary politics in two separate projects. The first is an archival study of mass campaigns to mobilize rural women for state building in the critical, formative period of the early 1950s. The second is an exploration of how government and private citizens today commemorate China’s revolutionary decades in museums, art galleries, and other public venues. Delineating exactly how and why “red culture” remains vital both publicly and privately in post-socialist Beijing is a central goal of this project.
Co-Sponsors: CSUSB History Department, History Club/Phi Alpha Theta, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the College of Extended Learning, the Center for Global Management/College of Business and Public Administration, the University Diversity Committee, Pfau Library, NEH Lecture Series, and the Intellectual Life Fund. Please contact Jeremy Murray (History Department) with questions at jmurray@csusb.edu. Special thanks to Pamela Crosson, Iwona Contreras, and Rueyling Chuang.
The Big Picture: India's electric car revolution
India is changing gears, but it's not a normal change. It probably means going straight from first gear to fifth. In a surprise move, the Indian government in April announced that by 2030, India will only have electric cars. For a country that runs on fuel guzzling cars, it's an ambitious target. Now, to imagine this happening in 14 years, it seems bordering on impossible. But whether the deadline will be met or not, the fact is that one of the largest countries in the world is on the path to eradicate fossil fuels in favor of electric vehicles.
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