Ian_Lee Posted February 6, 2004 at 06:36 PM Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 at 06:36 PM The current issue of National Geographic magazine has an article covering the Han Dynasty: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0402/feature1/index.html And it uses three words to describe the Han dynasty: brilliant, cunning, and cruel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cavebear Posted February 7, 2004 at 07:37 PM Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 at 07:37 PM The current issue of National Geographic magazine has an article covering the Han Dynasty:http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0402/feature1/index.html And it uses three words to describe the Han dynasty: brilliant' date=' cunning, and cruel[/b'] How could it be! It was not even democratic!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_Lee Posted February 10, 2004 at 07:53 PM Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 at 07:53 PM Cavebear: Why so sarcastic? Such labels could perfectly fit the behavior of Victorian England or Teddy Roosevelt's US. Well, I would say that Liu Bang was really cunning and cruel (and cool) when he replied "Could I share some soup" after his adversary Han Yu threatened to cook Liu's POW father to make some nice soup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithsgj Posted February 11, 2004 at 01:51 AM Report Share Posted February 11, 2004 at 01:51 AM You'd think they could have have come up with a better translation for Nat Geog then 國家地理. What rubbish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_Lee Posted March 2, 2004 at 12:41 AM Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 at 12:41 AM National Geographic is running two months on a row about China. The article in the current issue titles China's Growing Pains -- China's environmental problems: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0403/feature4/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jasmine Posted March 2, 2004 at 11:43 PM Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 at 11:43 PM whenever i read the title "National Geoghrpahic" ...first word that comes in my mind is boring...well never read b4..i will try someday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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