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New Year Lingo!
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Written by : Shane Qin, Kelly Wang, Sammi Zhou, Balvinder Kataora
Feb 4, 2008
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New Year
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| Get into the spirit with these key phrases.
Basic New Year Greetings
I wish you...
Zhu Ni...(Mandarin)
Juk Nei...(Cantonese)
祝你。。。
Happy New Year!
Xin Nian Hao! (Mandarin)
Sun Nin Ho! (Cantonese)
新年好!
Happy New Year!
Xin Nian Kuai Le (Mandarin)
Sun Nin Fai Lok (Cantonese)
新年快乐!
Hail the Year of the Rat!
People born in the Year of the Rat are often noted for their boundless charisma and, ahem, enthusiasm for the opposite sex. Their passion and sense of self drives their ambitions, making them highly successful individuals. Rats often enjoy respect and admiration from the Chinese.
They are renowned for their liveliness, thirst for life and constant need for "stimulation". When coupled with intellect, Rats are virtually all high achievers.
What type of person is a Rat?
THE METAL RAT (1900/1960)
The strongest, most visionary of all Rats, metals always take charge and have impeccab ... ... |
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51 Things that make you laugh
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Jan 28, 2008
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| Oh yes, we all need a good laugh, especially after the New Year Blues. Laughing costs nothing, yet it can give us a fresh take on China. So here are 51 things that make you chuckle everyday...
51 The beautiful ancient Buddhist Temple of The Six Banyan Trees ¨C it always brings warm serenity to mind.
50 Cutting down lingo. Forget sentences, small words can do the job. Instead of saying "Can I have another napkin, please?" simply point at your face and say "mouth" and?"tissue". Problem solved!
49 Cantonese people love their pets. No, not in that sense, they really love their pets.
48 Agree with everything! By nodding your head and repeating "Dui-dui-dui-dui-dui" you can go a whole evening without saying anything else. To anyone.
47 Conspicuous signs of prosperity: migrant workers carrying Louis Vuitton bags. Ace!
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The arts of warfare
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Written by : Sammi Zhou
Jan 28, 2008
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sword
traditional Chinese art
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| A new book displays the shock and awe of Chinese swords.
In the modern age, when technology is developing at breakneck speed, the strife and slaughter of ancient battlefields seems further away from our minds than ever before. What's more, the beauty of ancient Chinese culture seems to be shrinking under the enormous shadow of rising skyscrapers and cutthroat commerce, so much so that many bygone eras in Chinese history now seem vague or even ambiguous to many people.
Yet a recent book, entitled "A Guide to Ancient Chinese Swords" - which is said to be the first compendium of its kind in the world - has stirred the passions of Cantonese people, causing a rush of orders.
"This book deserves success because now, more than ever before, we all need to record our history," said literary critic Peng Peng. "We always say that history is a mirror. However, sometimes nonchalance to history is more disastrous than ... ... |
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A conversation with Wong Kar-Wai
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Written by : Alice Xin Liu, Portraits by Simon lim
Jan 28, 2008
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| China's most celebrated director talks about music, America and his first English-language movie, My Blueberry Nights.
Earlier this year, Wong Kar-Wai became the first Chinese filmmaker to open the Cannes Film Festival, with the premiere of My Blueberry Nights. As this, his first English-language film, hits the Chinese mainland, the director sat down with that's PRD to talk about his love for movies and music . . .
Some film critics have described My Blueberry Nights as a kind of new beginning...
Did I say it was a new beginning? [Laughs] Actually, it is a kind of new beginning. I have made films in the West, but that was from the perspective of a Chinese. This time we are telling the story of an American person, not a Chinese. I am also trying something new with a different language and culture.
How difficult was it to make the film?
Well, I had written all my other films, but the scriptwriter for this movie is ... ... |
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