About China the Beautiful

C h i n a t h e B e a u t i f u l

Globe China the Beautiful
Classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy

17-th Year on the Interet

Welcome to

C h i n a t h e B e a u t i f u l

The web site for 5,000 years of Chinese cultural heritage - Just a tiny bit of it anyway.

In addition, there is an open Forum for the reader of China the Beautiful. You are cordially invited to post your questions, comments and suggestions; and to read the postings from other readers.

You are invited to visit or post comments there.

It is highly recommended that you communicate with us via the Forum, as described above.

For questions and comments, please go the Open Forum where your queries will be answered.

You are welcome to post any questions to the Forum, to post your comments, amd to serve as monitors.

Editor-webmaster

Ming L. Pei

Board of Advisers

Siu-Leung Lee, United States (S. L. Lee)

web site.

Alfred W. Tüting, Germany (Tueting)

web site.

Julian Yiu, Canada (Yiu Kwokwei)

Technical Admin

Contributing writers

Rudy Chiang
Tin-kay Goh
S.Y. Ho
H.S. Wu

General questions and queries

Because of the flood of junk mail, we regret that we do not maintain an email address for the public.

There is, however, a public forum for you to read, write, and communicate with us. This is our preferred method of communication.

If you have questions or comments, kindly go to: the Forum and register. We respect your privacy, and do not reqire that you use your real name. However, registration is essential to prevent junk mail people from flooding us with countless postings. (Yes, this happens all the time!) This rule will also allow me to restrict anyone who do not behave respectfully. If you choose not to register, you can still read postings by others.

China the Beautiful is in its 17-th year of publication. Initial publication date: 2-15-1994.
During the month of October 1998, readers from over 85 countries downloaded more than 261,000 pages with 8.6 GB (that is 8,600 Megabytes) of data from just one of the two sites. Who says Arts and Culture are not popular?
During the month of January 1999, readers downloaded 288,000 pages totaling 10.0 GB of data from one of the three sites.
During the month of January 2000, readers downloaded 476,000 pages totaling 18.2 GB of data from one of the three sites.
In November 2001, we reached another milestone.
We sent out 30 GB per month of information to our readers! This is 1,000 million bytes (characters) in one day.

During the first 10 days of 2002, the average daily traffics are:
15,650 visits
50,735 pages
2,343 MBytes
or 70 GB per month.

During the first week of April 2003, the average daily traffics are:
12,000 visits
56,000 pages
3,600 MBytes
or 108 GB per month.

During the first full week of October 2003, there were:
3,765,000 visits
385,110 pages wiewed
27,000 MB downloaded
This is 110 GB per month, or 3,800 MB per day. Compare this to 30 GB per month or 1,000 MB per day in Nov. 2001, the traffic has grown 3.8 times.

March 2005 there were more than 1,860,000 page views.

April 2006 there were more than 2,290,000 page views.

January 2007 we have more than 3,519,000 pageviews, from
1,180,000 unique visitors.

Latest statistics of readership

Where do our readers live |Readers from 150 countries.
A few words by Dr. Ming L. Pei, Webmaster-Editor.

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