“Why are the Chinese putting jade onto the Olympic medals?”I asked my colleague Wu Nanlan as we sat waiting for our boss to come and conduct our weekly planning meeting. Raising her elegant eyebrows she gaped at me in surprise.“Haven’t you ever heard the Chinese saying,‘Gold is valuable,but jade is priceless?’”she replied.“China is the place where jade is the most respected. Even today jade (yu in Chinese) is known as the royal gem.The character for yu is only one stroke different for the Chinese charac- ”Why are the Chinese putting jade onto the Olympic medals? “ I asked my colleague Wu Nanlan as we sat waiting for our boss to come and conduct our weekly planning meeting. Raising her elegant eyebrows she gaped at me in surprise. ” Have not you ever heard the Chinese saying, ’Gold is valuable, but jade is priceless?’ “She replied. ” China is the place where jade is the most respected. Even today jade (yu in Chinese) is known as the royal gem. character for yu is only one stroke different for the Chinese charac-