These two photo were taken by Antonio Ho in the Bird’s Nest stadium.

这张图片是Antonio Ho在鸟巢体育馆拍的.

90,000 spectators fell silent at the announcement that Liu Xiang’s was unable to compete at the giant Birdsnest stadium. This overwhelmingly emotional announcement was soon replaced by cheers from the crowd for encouragement on Liu Xiang and the other competitors.

在“鸟巢“中,90,000名观众因为刘翔退出比赛而沉默起来,但这寂静的气氛很快便被

鼓励及支持刘翔和其它运动员的声音所取代.在“鸟巢“外,人们照旧装扮起来,庆祝奥运的举行

This picture is from Antonio in an army base in Taizhou.

这张图片是Antonio Ho在台州的一个陆军基地照的.

Soldiers couched in a circle to light candles to form a shape of the Olympic rings.

在图片中,五个陆兵士兵们蹲在地上用蜡烛拼出一个奥运五环.

Here is the place where you can bid for the coins and pins we are currently offering to raise some much-needed funds for our students. To bid, just list the item and amount you want to bid in the comments section. You are free to use an anonymous screenname. Please check the comments to be sure you are not accidentally underbidding anyone…and remember, all of these funds go to our help our students on the Dreamblogue.

You can see our video about the items here!:

DAVID AND the TORCH TAKE 12!
Or if you can’t stomach eight minutes of Dawei talking to Yanzhi’s disembodied voice, or if you don’t have a facebook account, you can always just look here to see the items available:

These are the commemorative Olympic pins Lenovo sent me. They are an extremely limited edition of six pins featuring little children using computers, and we’d really like to auction these pins to raise some money in support for Coffee and helping her leg.

Next are the landmark coins:

This set of coins is limited to 80,000 and features famous landmarks acrosss Beijing and China, including the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, and the Great Wall. The coins come with a certificate of authenticity that they are licensed official Olympic Beijing products.

The last set of coins we are offering are the flower coins:

This limited set of 30,000 coins features a number of plants and flowers with a special meaning in Chinese culture, including bamboo, orchids, plum blossoms, and chrysanthemums.

And while you are here, remember to add the China Dreamblogue to your Technorati favorites!

BID HERE!

We’ve been encouraging our readers to send us their dreams, and now I want to share my dream with you to carry a torch for the 2008 Olympics. You can help us out by voting here. Here’s my essay about why I’d like to carry the Olympic torch:

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I want to carry the torch for Ms. Yue. A year ago, I came to China on a fellowship from Grinnell College in America. My commitment was to teach English and engage in cultural exchange for groups of college students. And while I met many remarkable and people during my time there, Ms. Yue stands out. Offering to be my adoptive Chinese mother (or “中妈”), she took me into her home, taught me Chinese, offered me home-cooked food, and showed me how to enjoy everyday Chinese life: I want give back to her and China and pay my respects by running and by writing on my website, the China Dreamblogue. I will travel with Lonnie B. Hodge, a Zhongshan University professor, and write about the amazing dreams of China’s people. I want to create a place for positive engagement between the East and West, and share a place where I can speak about my great respect for this country.
I also want to show Ms Yue respect by carrying the torch for her Olympics. I believe in the spirit of the slogan: “One World, One Dream”. It rings true for me: Professor Hodge has worked and trained Olympic-level athletes, and during my year in Macau I acted as a language liaison for their Olympic Tae Kwon Do Association. I was privileged to train with members of Macau’s Olympic team. Part of my journey will include stories from Olympians and include medalist’s dreams from around the world. I support the Olympics as a forum for international understanding and the promotion of cross-cultural appreciation.

Lien Chan once said, “The Chinese nation is confronted with unprecedented opportunities of development. Well-being and prosperity that the nation has long aspired after will never be a faraway dream.” In order to help China achieve its dream for prosperity for its people, and I dream of a positive network of engagement for China and the West, I am working tirelessly to create ways for people to interact with China: not everyone gets their own Ms. Yue.
I see my work as community service, helping others to make connections, tell the world about their dreams, and give ordinary Chinese people a voice with which to speak and to show their truest face to the world. I work with The China Business Network, a site which offers help and information to business leaders; California Polytechnic University, and its MBA program with a business study plan actively engaging China; and The Library Project, which builds libraries for orphanages and rural schools. I’ve given over 1,000 hours in community service work to provide the world a chance to share China’s greatest dreams.
My favorite proverb from Chinese culture is “the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” I hope that my carrying the torch will help others to appreciate the Middle Kingdom and call China by its right name: an engaging culture with extraordinary dreams.

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One of the many goals of the China Dreamblogue is to create a strong, pro-China internet presence in the blogosphere. To do this, we need your help. And as we create our pro-China network, we would also like to help the people who want to be part of this network by giving them a way to increase their SEO power and their ability to monetize their site. Sound complicated and difficult? The process is deceptively simple and powerful.

We’ve created an idea called link it forward. Similar to the internet memes and the Thinking Blog tag that recently moved through a number of English-language blogs about China, our idea will travel rapidly through pro-China blogs. In addition, this idea will help to create links–as many as four thousand–to your site through a trickle-down method.

There are five simple steps:

1. Take this list of 8 blogs and put them in a post on your blog. The first three blogs, Onemanbandwidth, The China Dreamblogue, and Sinotrading, remain on the list.
2. At the top of the moveable list, put a link to your blog.
3. Remove the link from the bottom of blog.
4. Send your updated list to at least five other people.
5. If you want, create a new moveable list of five blogs you think deserve some links. Be kind and include the permanent list as well.

Perma-List:

• Onemanbandwidth
• The China Dreamblogue
• Sinotrading

The Moveable list:

• The Hao Hao Report
• East South North West
• The Cal Poly MBA Trip
• China Law Blog
• The Opposite End of China

The numbers work out well for you. You will have approximately five rounds on the list. On the first round, you’ll get five links. On the second, you’ll get 25 (each of the five people you sent the list to will get five more people to put your link on their site). The third round nets you 125, the fourth 525, and the fifth 2,625. Your grand total (should everyone follow Link it Forward) will be 3,305 links. And if you get linked to again by another blog, you can start the process all over again to earn another 3,000 links.

To monetize your blog or site please click on the links found on the front page of this blog.

China Dreamblogue的其中一个目标是在因特网上创建一个强大的，支持中国的互联网。实现这个目标，我们需要你的帮助。在我们建造我们中国的友好互联网的同时，我们将会帮助那些支持我们的人，把他们的博客推到网络排名的最前列。这个过程既简单又有效。

我们已经有一个构想，称为“链接在一起”（Link it Forward），与“网络媒母”（internet memes）相类似。“Link it Forward”（ 链接在一起）会以很快的速度在支持中国的博客上移动。另外，这个构想可以使你的网站的链接数量增加几千个以上。

以下是六个简单的步骤：

1. 按照以下的说明列两组博客的目录然后放到您的博客上。第一组名单是三个固定的博客：Onemanbandwidth, The China Dreamblogue, 和Sinotrading。这三个博客的连接必须永远的保留和不可改变。
2. 在第二组上，把您自己的博客连接放在目录的第一位上。
3. 把所有在第二组目录上的连接排名依次向下移动一位。即排第一的移到第二位，排第二的移到第三位等等（第五位的移到第一位）。
4. 这就是说排第五的应该要完成一个循坏回到第五的位置上。
5. 将你的更新了的列表发给至少5个其他博客。您发的越多，您就能获得更多的链接。如果您有一百个人，那就快点去做吧。
6. 如果您想的话，还可以另外创建一个您认为有价值的列表。请也同样包括那个不变名单（即onemanbandwidth, china dreamblogue 和 sinotrading）

请记住，不要改动或者改变第一组名单和不要在第二组名单上加上第六个链接。同样，通过第一组名单所得到的广告收益将用作慈善用途。而从第二组“link it forward”上所得的收益将有您自己支配。我们会为您列举一些能够推算您自己网站价值的地方。

第一组（长期不变得目录）：

Onemanbandwidth

The China Dreamblogue

Sinotrading

第二组（可更新的目录）：

您的博客

您朋友的博客

如果理想的话，您大约会有比从前翻5倍的链接量。

第一个循环，您会得到5个链接。

第二个循环您会得到25个链接（跟您建立链接的那5个人每人会给您带来5个新的链接）

第三个循环您会有125个链接，第四个有625，第五个有3，125个。

如果每个人都按照Link it Forward的方法，您最后会得到3，905个链接。如果您同时又跟其他博客建立同种方法的链接，您将会得到另外3，000多个的链接。有了这上千个的 连接，您就能从Google Adwords（Google搜索引擎营销）那里得到相应的收益了。现在就请按本页底部的Google Adwords按钮来看一下您的网站的价值吧。

这是为了兴趣；这是为了提高中国博客在西方搜索引擎的排名；这更是为了中国的慈善事业出一分力（因为限定组中的3个博客将会把全部广告收益捐献给中国的慈善机构）；同样也能增加中国博客在互联网上的知名度。

让我们一起link it forward(链接在一起)吧！