Sailing the Seven Seas

Sailing the Seven Seas of Semantics
You can look at What? and Why? but expressing your views in what is fast becoming the default communication tool of humanity (the English language) requires us also to enquire, How?

Qilin-China.cn moves rapidly through these three gears – which match our pages, Read, Understand, and Internalize – as it accelerates to the lift-off stage of, How about this? (where you may experiment with the various possibilities which you have discovered!) – and this corresponds to our final, speculative, innovatoryTransform page.

As regards content, we are making the assumption that you are in some sense Economists or prospective future thinkers about the dynamics of international interaction. ‘We are all economists now.’ Great things always depend on (although can never be reduced to) Economics: a branch of study emerging from the struggle for food and warmth and sleep about which Simone Weil speaks.

When we have the micro-chip and a source of electricity – analyzed, with Tim Harford’s help, on our final pages – we may feed our hearts, minds, soul and senses with other things (and you’ll find a little of it here). What links all these things together is imagination and a desire for the new.

It was in that spirit that we set off from China for Bengal in the fifteenth century – later bending our route to Malindi in East Kenya (which it now is) as you will learn below. So navigate carefully but swiftly on the Seven Seas of Semantics; and never forget to bring home your own particular version of ‘Chinese African Gold’.
Yours sincerely,
Admiral Zheng He,
Nanjing, 15 February 1413