Beautiful China

Panda and the Magic Serpent

Panda and the Magic Serpent is considered to be the first full-length animated color film to emerge from Japan (1958).

Inspired by an old Chinese folktale, Panda and the Magic Serpent tells the story of Bai-Niang, a white snake with magic powers.

I found it on DVD at Wal-Mart for only $1. It was with a large assortment of slim-cased DVDs placed by the checkout counters. Keep an eye out for it. You can also get it from Amazon.com (although it costs more).

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Few Partners for Outstanding Women: Women with high educational credentials, qualities and incomes usually find it difficult to find their Mr. Right, according to the latest statistics by the marriage and family consulting service center of the Beijing Women's Association.

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Making room for another: New Berlin couple with 5 sons from China has been granted the rare exception to adopt a sixth.

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Koizumi Apologizes for Past, to Meet Hu: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologized on Friday for Japan's wartime atrocities and said he would meet Chinese President Hu Jintao in a bid to repair ties that are at their worst in over three decades.

Generation Gap for Disney in China: Ever since Mickey Mouse visited Lin Huanbin's school here last summer, telling fairy tales and passing out Mouseketeer certificates, the 11-year-old boy has been unable to get Mi Laoshu out of his mind.

China Looms as the World's Next Leading Auto Exporter: Industrial heartlands from the Great Lakes region to Germany, look out -- here comes the Chinese auto industry.

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Local Story: Motherhood has been good for Kelly Burns. Since she adopted two daughters from Asia, ages 5 and 1, she has become "more patient" and able to "enjoy things more."

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Great Wall visible in space photo: A photograph taken from space appears to confirm that China's Great Wall can be seen with the naked eye after all.

China's workers face high risk of work-related diseases: Workers in China -- the factory of the world -- are at high risk of contracting work-related diseases, especially lung ailments, state media said while attributing part of the blame to foreign companies.

Blame China?: Members of Congress, egged on by American manufacturers, are threatening to slap punitive tariffs on Chinese goods unless China increases the exchange rate of its currency, the yuan, thus raising the price of Chinese imports here.

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Baby adoption brings Danville couple to Taipei: Traveling to Taiwan was a labor of love for Jaime and Larry Kendrick. They were there in January to pick up their son, Jacob, who was less than a year old at the time. He now joins a sister in Danville, Raechel, 13.

The Amish, China Adoption, Vaccinations, and Autism

In this part of an ongoing series on the roots and rise of autism, a reporter investigates the link between autism and vaccination by looking for autism in the Amish community. The one case of autism he finds turns out to be girl that was adopted from China.

Julia's vaccinations in China -- all given in one day at about age 15 months -- may well have contained thimerosal; the United States had stopped using it by the time she was born, but other countries with millions to vaccinate had not.

The article is interesting on many different levels.

Iris Chang

Historian Iris Chang won many battles The war she lost raged within: Irrefutably, Iris Chang won many battles in her fight for justice. But as she began to manifest symptoms of bipolar illness, she perceived them as a failure of will. Such harsh logic, symptomatic of the disease, rendered her unable to extend her own magnificent compassion to herself.

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