China Airlines' float won the International Award for most beautiful entry from outside the continental U.S. with a theme of Taiwan's Gardian- The Third Prince during the 121st Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, on New Year's Day, January 1, 2010. The third Prince in Mandarin is known as Nezha. More info. on how Nezha has become more Taiwanese.

China Airlines is really Taiwan's entry, since it's government owned.

Beautiful float! Pictures..

What's interesting is the floats have had more of a Taiwanese theme the last couple of years, where it used to be a generic Chinese theme.

Click on the labels to see previous years Float Entries.

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The float by Rount Table of Southern California Chinese Association, and Avery Denison "One World One Dream" won the Theme Trophy in the 119th Rose Parade in Pasadena on Tuesday January 1, 2008. (Photo by Keith Durflinger).

From the San Gabriel Tribune

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China Airlines "Carnival of Taiwan" float won the International Trophy in the 119th Rose Parade in Pasadena on Tuesday January 1, 2008.

From the San Gabriel Tribune

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China's entry:
Theme Trophy for excellence in presenting parade theme: Roundtable of Southern California Chinese-American Organizations and Avery Dennison's "One World One Dream"

Taiwan's Entry:
International Trophy for most beautiful entry from outside the continental U.S.: China Airlines Ltd.'s "Carnival of Taiwan."

China Airlines is currently owned by the government of Taiwan.

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Picture of the billboard against China's Rose Parade Entry
Planned protests at Rose Parade against China's float from CBS
Dissent on Parade - from Pasadena Weekly (local paper).
Avery Press Release on their float - Avery's web sites had nothing on their float, not even a picture. One way to attempt escaping controversy.

Questions:
Why is it so hard to find a picture of China and Taiwan's Float? I"ll add these later as they come available. Looks like the Tournament of Roses site has bandwidth issues.

Humerous:
1. When I did a search on google for a picture of China Airlines 2008 Rose Parade entry, my blog came up. I did a previous post on China Airlines Rose Parade Entries with the pictures I could find noting my frustration on finding photos.

2. The float builder for both the Taiwan and China floats is the same. Festival Artists (which needs to improve their web site. Sugestions - Pictures! List of clients with drawings. Other float builders are doing this).

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Anti Beijing 2008 Pasadena Olympic Billboard and a newspaper story. It's an interesting coalition that is behind this billboard.

I feel a bit sorry for the Pasadena Government, they really are in a no win situation where no matter what they do, they are going to upset somebody.

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Pasadena, CA city council continues to debate China's Entry into the Rose Parade. From a political prospective, smaller organizations have a chance to have their voices heard concerning China. The Pasadena City Council is in a lose lose situation no matter what they do, somebody will be unhappy saying they did to much, or to little.

Avery Dennison Corp. contributed half the cost of the float, which is not surprising since the founder of Avery who went to one of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona, organized a trip to China that made a lasting impression on him. Avery used to sponsor Claremont College students and recent alumni to spend a year in China having an adventure, but this looks like it has been discontinued. I applied for riding steam trains in China, but other worthier projects were chosen that year.

What I liked about the Avery China Adventure program was it gave a chance for students to really learn the Chinese culture by experiencing China by living there. The lists of projects that was done is amazing, from magicians to hiking remote areas to wine making to looking for gibbons. All adventures that were out of the ordinary.

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My view - I wish I could get better pictures of the China Airlines Float each year (which is actually from Taiwan. For some reason it is so hard to get good pictures online of it. Every year they do a beautiful job. In 2007 they won the International Trophy and did a nice press release, but no photos on their site! 16th time they have won an award.

Pictures I found:
2007 - The Natural Beauty of Taiwan (scroll down 2/3rds of the page - they disables the right click finally).
2006 Magical Taiwan with more pictures here (scroll down)
2005 Enjoying our Native Family - Taiwan and from China Airlines Site.
2004 Taiwan's Sound of Joy
2003 Dreaming of Taiwan International Trophy.
2002 Enjoying Taiwan, 2003 Dreaming of Taiwan,
2001 "Chinatown USA"Winner, International Trophy. I found it on the company that provided the Orchids for the float.

If you are frustrating by the lack of good photo's on the China Airlines Site, here is some contact info.
Johnson Sun Director of Corporate Communication & Customer Relation div., Spokesperson
Chih Yu Deputy Director of Finance Div., Deputy Spokesperson
Address: 131, Sec. 3, Nanking E. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan,R.O.C.
TEL: (02)2715-2233
FAX: (02)2715-5754

And contact information for the US Offices

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