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Attached is the section of Malthus's classic work An Essay on the Principle of Population devoted to China and Japan.

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Attached, in .pdf format, is a copy of our seminar schedule.

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Attached, in .pdf format, is a copy of our guide to using the discussion forum. Please remember that we can create a forum for you to use with your students.

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Attached, in .pdf format, is a copy of the seminar assignment guidelines.

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I did not imagine that Chinese would feel the compulsion to find artifical ways to burn calories. Please take a look at the attached photo, which I took in a Shanghai discount store a few weeks ago.

Who knew there'd be a market for treadmills?

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Everyone reading this knows how much I enjoy Chinese food. And certainly you know I eat too much generally. Reporters are starting to notice that some in China are eating a bit too much. Please take a look at this 7/18/04 ap article on the bulge in urban China.

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Hi Kathleen and others,

Many film processors will scan your photos and put them on cd for you. There's an additional cost, but it certainly saves time and trouble. Alternatively, you can wait for your prints and then decide which to scan. Some processors will even post your pictures online for you to download and to share with friends. Until this summer, I did this. The company I used is called http://www.photoworks.com. They're pretty good and have been around for a long time. I started using them years ago primarily because they specialized in producing slides and prints from a single roll of film. Many other film processors offer similar services.

We'll extend the second photo submission deadline to 8/14 and the third deadline to 9/14.

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I have attached a photo of a baggage cart at the Kunming (Yunnan province) airport. Note the symbol the advertisers used for this golf course.

The construction of golf courses continues at a rapid rate in China and several other Asian nations. Here is a stark decision -- rather than using the land for food production, it is now used for luxury recreation. What does this change represent?

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Attached is a picture from the Xianggelila airport. Note that they know where the money is -- they don't use the romanization of the Chinese characters, but rather use the "English" name Shangri-La.

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Place names are fascinating things. How many know the origins of the name California?

A Chinese town recently lobbied for and won the right to rename itself. That's striking since China is a place where having been called something for a long time is a source of pride (why do the Shanghai license places use the character "hu"?). What is even more amazing is that this place came up with a name from an English novel. I recently visited Xianggelila in Yunnan province and found it fascinating. The novel, Lost Horizon, by James Hilton was turned into a successful film by the same name. In it a plane carrying Westerners has to land in an isolated paradise: Shangri-La.

The town, previously called Zhongdian, fought to get this name, mindful that tourist money would certainly follow. Please take a look at the attached article on the name change.

What does this suggest about the importance of global images to China today? What does it say about the importance of tourism to the Chinese economy?

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If you are reading this, then you probably don't need the attached guide (which was passed out at the orientation and also distributed via email). Still, many people find the step by step help useful, especially in attaching documents and photos.

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A new pirated translation of Clinton's memoir has come out in China. I've already asked my friends to get me a copy.

I've attached a Times of London story about the book, which is quite fanciful.

Among the "innovations" in the text are:

Hope, Arkansas has spectacular feng shui.

Clinton learned a great deal from Mao.

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I'm anxious to see John's pictures and everyone else's as well.

To add a photo:

1. Make sure the photo is appropriately sized.

Those of you with photo editing software can readily do this for an entire folder of photos. For posting on the net, it's best for your photos to be 800x600 pixels (that's the size of many computer screens, 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels tall). This display size will also make your file size smaller, meaning that it will be quicker to upload and quicker for your fans to download. Most of the photos people will post will be between 150 and 500 kb in size.

2. Click on the "reply" button in this thread (this part of the discussion forum).

3. Change the subject to something appropriate to your photo.

4. In the message area, put whatever info you think we need to make sense of the photo. What, where, when, why, and how.... (if they aren't obvious - for example, where your camera was hidden...) This would be where you would make your blackmail demands.

5. Click on the browse button below the message space and navigate to your cd, floppy, or hard drive. Select the photo (short file names are best). The file location should appear in the blank beside "attachment." Then click post.

6. It will take a short period of time for your file to be uploaded. With Internet Explorer a little window opens with a scrolling bar to indicate something's happening. Once complete, you'll be automatically taken back to the "favorite photos" thread (or wherever you started).

7. To view photos, just click on the little file in a vise icon that appears at the bottom of the message. I've attached a donkey meat photo to this message, if you want to try opening it.

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Detailed instructions on attaching documents, photos, presentations, etc. are in the handout distributed at the orientation. I'll put another copy up in just a moment.

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Okay -- if Miranda can break out the cow stomach on a stick, then why shouldn't we take a close look at donkey meat prepared Dunhuang-style?

Note the technique used to tenderize the meat as it is being stir-fried.

It was tasty and certainly better than yak meat in Lijiang.

Incidentally, neither Miranda, Yunxiang, nor I are eligible for the prize. Right now it looks like only Ryan is after the Asia goodies the prizes provide.

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Ryan took this at the Baoshan (or was it the Baogang?) hospital.

The addition of children definitely ups the competitive ante. [Edit by="Clay Dube on Jul 24, 4:21:15 PM"][/Edit]

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