Customer is King?!

"Customer is King .""Customer is always correct."
These phrases are always said by the stores,but do they all obey the "King"?
Not really.Especially in China.
This is my first-hand experience.The other day,once I stepped into a clothing store,the storekeeper told me scornfully not to touch anything if i do not wanna buy it.
Y？Just because i am a student, seemed not rich,yet i even do not have the right to touch ur clothes?
I said nothing but touched & tried one,then leaved with buying nothing.U can imagine how bad she treated me at that time.
I told all my friends about the horrible service,& since then,I have never went to that shop.
R u curious about the business of that shop?It manages well & unexpectedly has some regular customers!
"THE CUSTOMER IS GOD AND THE MARKET DECIDES EVERYTHING."
That sounds pretty.
Normally owners only choose to pay more attention to the most potential customers,miss & neglected the others,for they have excellent location & attractive price.They don't have to worry about their customers.
Nowadays society is a Materialistic society,money means power,money is dignity,money decides everthing.
May be to many merchants Money is the King~

Looted Chinese relics sold for 14 million euros each

China Tuesday demanded the auction of two looted historic bronze sculptures in Paris be canceled, saying it broke international conventions.

The auction seriously violates the country's cultural rights and interests, and hurts national sentiment, it said.

A Paris court on Monday ruled against stopping the sale of the sculptures, rejecting an appeal filed by the Association for the Protection of Chinese Art in Europe.

The sculptures, of rat and rabbit heads, are part of an art collection from the estate of French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, which went on sale at a Christie's auction started in Paris on Monday.

The heads were taken from Beijing's Old Summer Palace when it was razed by invading French and British forces in 1860 during the Second Opium War.

"The State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) has formally informed the auctioneer of our strong opposition to the auction, and clearly demanded its cancellation,"

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told a news conference.

"The Western powers have plundered a great amount of Chinese cultural relics including many precious items robbed from the Old Summer Palace. All these should be returned to China," Ma said

SACH said Tuesday that it "strongly objected" to the auction and had written to Christie's asking it to stop the auction.

"We believe there is a common understanding in the international community that looted cultural objects should be returned to their countries. "

"This is a basic cultural right of people in the origin countries," the SACH statement said.

"We requested they stop the auctions and hope the parties (to the auction) understand and respect this proper request from Chinese people," it said.

Song Xinchao, director of the SACH museum department, reiterated Tuesday that China would not buy back the bronzes that rightfully belong to the country.

Chinese netizens are furious about the planned auction.

According to the UNESCO Convention on Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Objects, any cultural relics looted or lost during wars should be returned without any limitation of time span.

"If they are sold, we will start legal proceedings against the buyer," he said.

Two controversial ancient Chinese relics were auctioned off on Wednesday night for 14 million euros （17.92 million U.S. dollars） each by anonymous telephone bidders in Christie's sale of the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge in the Grand Palace of Paris.

The two bronze sculptures are part of the art collection of the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. So far, five of the 12 bronze animal fountainheads have been returned to China, while the whereabouts of five others are unknown.

Chinese movie star Jackie Chan is sad about this,and is indignant about this kind of looting.

He plans to make a film about Beijing's Old Summer Palace.

my photo albums

I took my Photo albums last semester~This is typical chinese Female students dress code before Liberation ~

Do u love this kind of Clothes ?

Quick view to civilization of Chinese Food

It is not easy to brief the civilization of Chinese Food in a short message, it is because, there are more than 56 folks inside the Mainland China, and the large area causes difference dining habits among the difference districts. First of all, we need to know that, the old China was developed in a faming society, and most of the dining habits and meals culture are based on this factor.

Dining Tool and habits

Not same to the people living in western area, Chinese used to have their dinner together with all the family members, sitting around a table and each person will have one set of dining tool in front of them, including two bowls which one for rice and another for soup, one pairs of chopsticks and one plate for meat / vegetable. They will share the food dishes which were made and put into the central of table, diners will only pick up the food from the dished which who want to eat. He will pick it and places it into the small plate in front of him. There are 2 special habits, one is, Chinese diners never pick up rice from the bowl but will handle the bowl towards their lips then poke the rice into their mouths by the chopsticks. The other one is, Chinese always have soup during or after dining.

Traditional Chinese Food

There are so many traditional and special Chinese foods, according to the folk culture, district, religion, and festival. For the famous classes divided by district, there are style of Guangdong, Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan, North-West, and so on…or by folk, there are kajia, Yunan, Fujian, etc. These all above mentioned styles are well-known in the worldwide. Here, introduce some special dishes, perhaps you have had it, or you have never heard .

Festive Dishes

Because of the poor and hard lifestyle character of a farming society, the Chinese farming families would have food which were being get from the farming field, such as, potatoes, tomatoes, vegetable, sweet corn, mushrooms, etc. So, the Chinese will have many dishes of meat recipes like Chicken, Pork, Fish that they do not have in the normal days. The are some special snack, or to be said, festival food will be made during the Chinese festivals, Such as Sweet-Stick Cake and Turnip Pastry in Lunar New Year, Glutinous Rice Tamale in Dragon Boat Festival, Moon Cake in Middle Autumn Festival, etc, and Steamed Buns to the Birthday person……

Religion Culture - Vegetarian Diets

Buddhism and Tao is the main religions in Mainland China, and, it is must more simple to know that vegetarian diets becomes the main food to the people whose cult as monk and nun, as well as Taoist. There are so many vegetarian diets made looked like meat as pork, beef, fish, cuttlefish, etc. It is so funny and tasty, and healthy. Islam is one of the large religion in Mainland China, but it is well-known that, the Muslins never eat Pork, and their famous recipe is BBQ Lamb……

Main Food

Generally, we can divided the farming products of main food in China into 3 styles, those are, Rice in Southern and Eastern China, Wheat in Northern China and Sweet Corn in Middle, Northern, Western China. Because of their farming products, the people living in Southern China will have rice, congee or rice noodle as their main food, and who will have wheat made products like Bun, noodle, pancake in Northern China. The populace who living on seaside and lakeside will have seafood or lake fishes as meals. Of course, people can have any food as they want nowaday.

UK university Website Links

I have found some of UK university Website Links(rank by letters)

University of Aberdeen

Abertay University, Dundee

Anglia Polytechnic University,

Aston University, Birmingham

University of Buckingham

The University of Bath

Birmingham University

Bournemouth University

Bradford University

University of Brighton

Bristol University

Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London

Coventry University

University of Cambridge

University of Central England , Birmingham

University of Central Lancashire , Preston

City University, Central London

University of East Anglia , Norwich

Cranfield University

Derby University

University of Dundee

Durham University

Edinburgh University

University of East London

Exeter University

University of Essex , Colchester

Glasgow University

Glasgow Caledonian University

University of Glamoragn , Pontypridd

London Guildhall University

University of Greenwich , London

Huddersfield University

Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh

University of Hertfordshire , Hatfield

University of Hull

Lancaster University

Keele University, Staffordshire

University of Kent , Canterbury

Kingston University, South West London

Leeds Metropolitan University

University of Leeds

University of Leicester

De Montfort University

Liverpool University

University of Lincolnshire and Humberside , Hull

University of Lincolnshire and Humberside , Lincoln

Liverpool John Moores University

Manchester Metropolitan University

University of Luton

University of London

Loughborough University

University of Manchester

Napier University, Edinburgh

Middlesex University, West London

Nottingham University

Newcastle University

University of Northumbria , Newcastle

University of North London

Nottingham Trent University

The Open University , Milton Keynes

Oxford University

Oxford Brookes University

Paisley University

Plymouth University

The University of Portsmouth

Queen's University Belfast

Reading University

Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

St.Andrews University

University of Salford

The University of Sheffield

Sheffield Hallam University

University of Southampton

South Bank University, London

Staffordshire University

Stirling University

The University of Strathclyde , Glasgow

Thames Valley University, Slough

University of Surrey , Guildford

Sussex University, Brighton

University of Teesside

Sunderland University

University of York

University of Ulster

University of Wales

University of Warwick

University of the West of England , Bristol

University of the Highlands and Islands , Inverness

University of Wolverhampton

University of Westminster , London

Hope this will help u find the information u want~^^