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http://markschinablog.blogspot.com/

This is a blog about china from a western point of view, the blogger lived in Xi’an, China for three and a half years. Xi’an used to be 13 dynasties capital, thus preserved a typical Chinese culture. The blogger’s view is really interesting to a Chinese, its reflection both help me understand Chinese and western culture more. The picture on home page caught my eyes; it’s the blogger standing before a lake under snow mountains in some plateau. The extensity and boundlessness suddenly welled up my resonance. I suppose he would be someone never refrained by anything. The whole interface is clean and concise, in a delicate position----beyond it will be too much, beneath it would be too less. His use of visual elements, especially videos, really enriches his content, and beneficial for foreigners to understand what China really is.

http://zenmirror.blogspot.com/

This blog is about Zen. Zen is a unique genre of Buddhism originated from China. It abandoned ascetical life and appeal natural life to enlightenment. As same as Buddhism, it believes in constant contemplation and introspection, all matters come from one and all matter can only solve by oneself. The reason Zen attract me is that it never try to complicate the truth which supposed to be plain and simple and it provide a natural and magnanimous approach. The blogger, interestingly, was an American converted Buddhism. He tried to convert many Buddhism ideas to western thinking model, though distorted occasionally. His interface is concise, just as the essence of Zen, but has profound and inspiring content. He has the sense of design that every single picture he chose is perfectly fit to the content, and makes it contemplative.

http://www.haruki-murakami.com/

This is a blog about Murakami Haruki, my favorite author. It’s easy to see from his name he is Japanese. He authentically inherited the melancholy fundamental key from Tale of Genji. It’s the bewildered, void melancholy though slight enough but you can’t ignore it. All of his books has a common theme, seeking. The blog’s background music makes you feel dreamy and unreal, and the combination of objects with boldly contrary color makes the entire blog artistic; a sense of Jazz pervades the blog. The blog include introductions and book review; it’s lots of fun for me to read others understanding of Murakami.