Comments on: People Mountain People Sea

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:11:22 +0000

But if you divided, say, India up into States (provinces) then a large number would be Indian! You can’t divide up one large number, leave another large number whole and say “wow, what a lot of components of the large number there are”!

By: Handan

Handan — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:10:54 +0000

Ben, assume your audience knows little about Chinese provinces and add parallel colume of land size if you would…

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:21:26 +0000

Wow. Mixing the province populations with country populations really puts it into perspective. No wonder I feel occassionally claustrophobic.

Although, I notice it a lot less than when I first arrived. Empty seems strange.

By: Jeremy Yeh

Jeremy Yeh — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:15:28 +0000

yeah,china is really renshanrenhai! when i told a uruguayan friend that china has a population of 1.3 billion people,fukien 35 million and foochow 6 million,he really had a big wow! cuz there are only 3 million in uruguay.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:33:24 +0000

人山人海 is the first 成语 (four character Chinese expression, often with deep meaning and a story behind it) I learned, although it is more literal than most. I've noticed Wikopedia is on again, off again in China. Last night was the first time I could access Technorati from China, so the pendulum may be swinging in our direction once more.

By: China Law Blog

China Law Blog — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:52:30 +0000

Great list. Reminds me of a graphic I saw on the Freakonomics blog a few weeks ago, showing a map of the United States with the name of the country with a similar GDP as the state. For example, my state, Washington, was labeled Turkey, because the state’s GDP is about the same as Turkey’s It was cool too.

By: cheer

cheer — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:54:52 +0000

ha““I live in sichuan.

By: Mylea Mei

Mylea Mei — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:25:01 +0000

I am impressed by the ways Ben observes China. I long for more stories from him.

By: Echo

Echo — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:22:07 +0000

Hi Ben, I heard your story from a friend who has visited your blog. And generally I come to like reading your blog now. I am an English editor for a magazine named “The World of Chinese” that aims to introduce China to the world. We will introduce the foreigners who live in China in the coming issue. Would you like to share your story with us? My email address is echozhaolei@163.com. We could talk about that in detail. Thank you. –Echo

By: Therese

Therese — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:09:00 +0000

It seems that Shanxi’s population is closer to that of Canada than Fujian’s is closer to that of Canada….