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Hi, I am Chunhua (Leo) Liao. Currently, I work as a postdoctoral researcher at USA.

My major interest is Portal:computer science, Portal:Health and recently, China issues.

To be more specific, I am editing:

[edit] What Matters the Most to Me?

[edit] Health

Traditional Chinese medicine todo:

manual of human bodies
Explanations of common diseases form TCM's point of view
Different factions within traditional Chinese medicine

 Just some draft now

Since TCM is a big system with thousands of years, it is not surprising to find out there are different factions within traditional Chinese medicine. And there are always some arguments among them.

Chinese Books:

Ephedrine

[edit] Time

[edit] Wisdom

Things beyond or behind societies, humanity, technicals, sciences, .. and so on.

[edit] Knowledge

[edit] Other random contributions

Template:Internet Access,

Believe it or not: I am the creator of Car maintenance
Ma Junren

[edit] Hot China Issues

Once upon a time, I am asked about some China issues. Here is my cheating sheet for some common questions from friendly and intelligent Americans. Otherwise, I would respond: Expressing a strong opinion on something you have no idea about is equivalent to telling the world your ignorance and stupidity.

Dog meat Some self-righteous people like to use this topic to show their up-hand moral position. But the reality is many countries have the same tradition.

[edit] Sichuan Earthquake

http://www.google.com/chinaearthquake/

[edit] product quality and safety problems

Many politicians would say this to treat China as a scapegoat and divert the attention of the public from America's own, real problems. How many Chinese products are made? How many of them have quality and safety problems? How is the ratio of problems compared to other countries including USA? Singling out a fact without context can draw very ridiculous conclusions. That is what really happening to the so-called product problem from China. So many USA-made products had very serious qualify and security problems, including the notorious mad cow disease. Why don't call American are trying to poison themselves by these facts? It is ridiculous that this kind of plain lies can draw so many attentions today in USA. And blaming China for any problems is becoming a trend to make American feel better. Unfortunately, making lies will never solve real problems except a temporary illusion of feeling better.

[edit] Tibet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Tibetan_unrest More third-party perspectives of Tibet issues

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth, by Michael Parenti (Ph.D. in political science from Yale University), http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
THE SHADOW OF THE DALAI LAMA, http://www.iivs.de/~iivs01311/SDLE/Index.htm
Tibet, China and the United States: Reflections on the Tibet Question. by Melvyn C. Goldstein, * http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~wtv/tibet/article/art4.html
“The Snow Lion and the Dragon, China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama", by Melvyn Goldstein, http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Lion-Dragon-China-Tibet/dp/0520219511
TIBET - A REALITY CHECK, by people from India, a country having border conflicts with China and hosting Dalai Lama's exile government, http://www.flonnet.com/fl1718/17180040.htm
A Year in Tibet (BBC), http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00936pn.shtml , only available to UK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_sovereignty_debate
The Secret Truth about The Dalai Lama http://www.newspiritualbible.com/index2.html
Tibet, the 'great game' and the CIA http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JC26Ad02.html
Why They Hate China http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12585
The CIA's Secret War in Tibet http://www.amazon.com/CIAs-Secret-War-Tibet/dp/0700611592
PBS Discussions (in relation to the Tibet issue) http://discussions.pbs.org/viewtopic.pbs?t=68073&sid=ce0b20590dd445725153c83b5ef21c7f
China History by America: Why We Fight: "Battle of China (ca. 1944) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tOtVQ7cNWY It mentions Tibet as part of China already.
Tibet: The Truth (oppression, monks, nuns... you're wrong) http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xsoc4-QnplY

Well, I just realized that I over, over, ..., overestimated pro-Tibet-separatists people , since they don't even know where Tibet is!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=twHzXN3kNTs Free Tibet, wait, where is Tibet?

So, all the materials above only for people with a serious attitude towards China and the world affair. enjoy!!

[edit] Propaganda

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10875823&mode=comment

Euphonium wrote: March 24, 2008 10:58 A side note from my experience and observation, not directly related to Tibet:

Over the tens (if not hundreds) of years of propaganda Chinese people have gone through, they have developed very trained eyes to immediately filter out the propaganda part and get the truth part of every official report (I'm not sure they have developed the same skills against western media though). Propaganda actually doesn't work for Chinese now. Believe it or not, neither does the government expect it to work. It becomes more a ritual, or the "Chinese way to say things" if you will. If the Chinese government suddenly speaks without propaganda, most Chinese people will get confused and wonder what's really going on. Hilarious it may sound, but that is the status quo. Nobody knows better than Chinese that "the truth is always somewhere in between".

Speaking of westerners, or particularly Americans, most people did not have the "privilege" to get so much training about propaganda, and the result is a rather naive attitude towards media reports: either it's complete truth, or it's complete propaganda. In that sense, they don't have any immune system against skilled propaganda, a good portion of which is from the western media (which to Chinese eyes aren't skilled at all). I found it amusing how the two American young people in the TV documentary got so completely converted to pro-China in a 10-day trip to Tibet. You can't convert a Chinese that easily, no matter which direction it goes. On a side note, what was shown in the documentary is basically consistent with what I saw in Tibet when I was there, I make no further generalization though.

[edit] double standard

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Khut8xbXK8 The Iraq War: Legal or Illegal?
https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/tchou7/Wen_Ho_Lee.htm Scapegoat of the century?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5LctoUV-tag The American War: The U.S. in Vietnam

[edit] Quick notes

Mail station in campus bookstore office hour: 8:00-11:00, 11:30-2:00, 2:30-4:00, M through F. metered packages are not accepted after 3:45pm. Not a full service site, no international fast delivery. Cash & check only

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_in_film

italkbb call anytime to anyone
KyLin Chinese TV

Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)

[edit] tips for apartment renters

I hate to say that it is easy to be ripped of by apartments. Here are some tips:

Safety is the first priority. Monitored entry gate is preferred. You may request crime stats about one apartment from the local police station with little fee. Or check online data.
Ask about application fee, deposit, water bill, gas bill, reserved parking lot fee, garbage collection fee in addition to regular apartment rent. Those little things may cost you a fortune.
Be very, very careful when signing your lease: make sure the rent, the lease term is exactly you agreed. Make copies for all of them especially the supplemental documents of discounts. Take oral promises as absolutely nothing!!
Check your unit for everything carefully before move-in, notify the apartment in the formal form and keep it. They may charge you for new damages.
Check water pressure if your unit is located in the second floor or above.
Check parking lot for good drainage.
check the direction of your bedroom. You inner temperature may be very high if your unit is under the direct sun shine in Summer.
Delivery move-out notice in time as requested by your lease.

[edit] Brainstorming

The natural aftermath for business ratings? --> personal ratings! Nowadays, we are getting used to have a look at the ratings(reviews, feedbacks) before doing business. How about looking at ratings and reviews of a person before interacting with somebody? Sounds crazy? Maybe not. I predict that in the near future, there will be some huge internet based personal rating sites. And everybody will write reviews for others and looking reviews before meeting someone. Just watch your every behavior then. The persons with 99% percent positive feedback will be hot!
Scientific research is now carried out in small groups (an advisor with several students), with very low productivity. There should be some advances in doing research in engineering ways, like software engineering for programming. I'd like to call it research engineering, which targets to large scale, collaborative, controllable research activities dealing with real challenges for human beings. --Leo 19:57, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My Favorite

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[edit] bikes

http://parktool.com/repair/

[edit] books

The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
Personal Finance For Dummies, 5th edition (Paperback), by Eric Tyson (Author)

[edit] movies

Contact (1997)

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Internet has been extensively used for passing information to aid rescue and recovery in China. For example, the official Xinhua has set up an online rescue request center in order to find the blind spots of disaster recovery. ^[1]. After knowing the rescue helicopters had trouble in landing into the epicenter in Wenchuan, a student proposed a landing spot online and it was actually accepted as the first touchdown place for the first rescue helicopters^[2]. Volunteers have also set up several websites storing contact information for victims and evacuees to help locating the missing loved ones online^[3].

[edit] Favorite links

http://www.familywatchdog.us Map of registered sex/child/rape offenders near your home
http://www.gasbuddy.com/
http://www.norc.org/projects/Survey+of+Earned+Doctorates.htm
http://www.mindtools.com/
http://dict.cn/ Online English-Chinese dictionary.
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com Mostly for teaching rating.
http://www.apartmentratings.com Check it out before signing your lease!
http://ratemds.com/ doctor ratings and reviews

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