- You4 shi4 ta1 ma?
- Again, is it her?
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Ta Zhang De Hao Kan Ma?
- Ta1 zhang3 de hao3 kan4 ma?
- Does she look pretty?
- Wo3 bu4 zhi1 dao4. Ni3 shuo1 ne?
- I don't know. How is your opinion?
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Zhong Guo Mei Ren
Ni3 ren4 wei2 ta1 mei3 ma5?
Do you consider her beautiful?
Monday, February 4, 2008
Slow down and smell the roses
By Wang Hao (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-02-01 07:24
We are on a fast train - so fast that we are oblivious to the view outside the window.
So how fast is it?
A foreign economist, after surveying annual growth of per capita income in various countries, noted that one year in China is equivalent to about four in the United States, or one year in Britain is about 3.1 months in China.
That is, an American has to live four years to feel the changes a Chinese experiences in a year.
That's fast.
I was racking my brains to pick a suitable topic for this column when a colleague stopped me in the corridor: "You should write about slowing down our lives." She looked exhausted constantly battling deadlines.
Yes, it is time to stop and think about the price we pay for this breathless life and what we are losing along the way.
To keep up with the fast pace of life, we eat fast food, which has robbed us of the pleasure of enjoying healthy, clean and tasty food; we read fast stories that fabricate sensational stuff about celebrities; we attend fast love (speed dating) parties in the hope of finding an ideal mate from among the dozens to whom you are only allowed to speak to for a few minutes; and we fast-track our children, forcing junior high textbooks on primary school kids.
Above all, what we have lost is the experience of life we should enjoy on the way to a better life.
Yuan Xiaojuan, a magazine journalist who died of cancer at the age of 35, wrote in her blog days before her death: "We live in such a rush that we forget about our inner feelings and what life is all about."
In this mad rush, we ignore the seemingly insignificant, but precious, details. No sooner do we understand one idea than we are bombarded with a new one. The fast life deprives us of not only the experience of life, but also life itself.
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Link to the source of this commentary
WB Cuts Growth Forecast to Below 10%
2008-02-05 07:29 Xin Zhiming (China Daily)
The Chinese economy will grow at 9.6 percent this year, instead of 10.8 percent as forecast earlier, because of a global economic downturn, the World Bank (WB) said yesterday.
The bank's latest quarterly economic update on China, however, says the impact of the snowstorms battering a large part of the country now would be limited and temporary.
This is the first time in six years that the economy has been forecast to grow by less than 10 percent. And it comes on the back of a year that saw the economy grow by a 13-year-high of 11.4 percent.
"The slowdown in the global economy should affect China's exports and investment in the tradable sector," WB director for China David Dollar said at a press conference, held to release the bank's report.
"The momentum of domestic demand, however, should remain robust and a modest global slowdown could contribute to rebalancing of the economy."
For the first time in seven years, China's consumption outweighed net exports and investments in 2007 to contribute 4.4 percentage points of the overall 11.4 percent GDP growth. Investments contributed 4.3 percentage points while net exports, 2.7 percentage points, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on hursday.
The economy grew at a blistering 11.9 percent in the first half of 2007. But a series of policies implemented to anchor the economy slowed down exports in the second half, when consumption picked up.
The slowing down of the country's economy should not be seen as a bad omen because the government is in a strong macroeconomic position to stimulate demand by easing the fiscal policy and credit controls if and when the US and global downturn worsens, the report said.
Inflation, however, remains a serious challenge for the government, WB senior economist and the main author of the quarterly report Louis Kuijs said.
The consumer price index (CPI), bellwether of inflation, is expected to have risen further in January after being above 6 percent during the last five months of 2007. But it is likely to ease after the short-term impact of the bad weather wears off, the bank said.
"Most of the impacts (of the weather) would turn out to be temporary," Kuijs said, because "the government has been fast in responding to the crisis."
The high rise in prices would not lead to generalized inflation, he said.
"We don't see a lot of spillover of the food price inflation into more generalized inflation," although risks remain.
Some analysts say China is revaluing the yuan at a faster pace to reduce the pressure of inflation because it will make imports cheaper. But the WB said that can't be the ultimate tool.
It is irrational to rely too much on the exchange rate to manage inflation, Dollar said. A gradual revaluation would be more advisable because it gives the economy more room to adapt to changes.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Who's That Mysterious Man?
Who's that mysterious man next to her who has orange shell-like skin according to Chinese people's perspective? Look at them, both opened mouths widely laughing, hei, must be loudly. What made them so happy, and what's the fun there? Curiously to know from here!
Young But Aged Beauty - Dancer
Young but aged beauty. She's around 49 when this pic was taken. She's minority from Yunnan province, a well-known dancer.
The Past Beauty -
The Past Beauty - is looking at modern Hollywood! Hint: she is Shanghainese, passed away in 1957 or so. A very pretty girl when she's 17.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Chairman Mao's Tutor Dies at 73
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2008-01-28 09:57
Zhang Hanzhi, the woman who tutored Chairman Mao Zedong and interpreted for him and US President Richard Nixon during the latter's historic visit to China, died on Saturday. She was 73.
A mourning hall is set up yesterday morning at the former residence of Zhang Hanzhi, the woman who was Chairman Mao Zedong's English tutor. She died in a Beijing hospital on Saturday at the age of 73. [Shanghai Daily]
Zhang suffered heart failure following lung complications in Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital, the Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post said.
Zhang was born in Shanghai in 1935, the illegitimate daughter of a beautiful shop assistant and a powerful businessman. At eight months old, she was adopted by Zhang Shizhao, a legal and education official in the Kuomintang government.
In 1960, Zhang became an English teacher at her alma mater, today's Beijing Foreign Studies University, immediately after finishing her master's program.
In late 1963, she accompanied her father, then curator of the Central Research Institute of Culture and History, to a birthday dinner for Mao, founder of the People's Republic of China. It was there that Mao asked her to be his English tutor.
"The Chairman wanted the lessons to start the following day," she said. "I was dumbfounded. I was to teach the great leader whom over a billion people worshipped as their god," Zhang told Time magazine in 1999.
In 1971, Zhang started work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She divorced her husband Hong Junyan in 1973, after a 16-year marriage to the economist at Peking University. Hong Huang was born of the marriage.
Several months later she married Qiao Guanhua, who was China's foreign minister in the 1970s. Qiao died in 1983.
Zhang attended Mao's and Premier Zhou Enlai's talks with Nixon and Henry Kissinger, which laid the cornerstone for normalizing relations between the two countries in the 1970s.
Later she joined China's delegation to the UN.
In recent years, Zhang enjoyed further national celebrity with the publication of several best-selling memoirs.
China's GDP, CPI Surge to Decade Highs
2008-01-24 10:59:09 Source Chinadaily.com.cn
National Bureau Xie Fuzhan, head of the National Bureau of Statistics, elaborates on China's economic status last year in China at a press conference held in Beijing on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]
The Chinese economy grew 11.4 percent in 2007, the biggest increase since 1994 while the consumer price index rose by 4.8 percent, the highest level in more than a decade.
China's economy expanded at its fastest pace in 13 years in 2007 even after a slowdown in the fourth quarter, amid rising inflation, official figures showed on Thursday.
The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 11.4 percent last year from 2006, to 24.66 trillion yuan ($3.42 trillion), said Xie Fuzhan, head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) at a press conference in Beijing. For the entire news, please click the link below...
Links: the news
When East Meets West
When east meets west, or when an Eastern man meets a western woman, how do you think? See story in "the Children of Huangshi" (2008), about the love, and the Nanjing Massacre. The director for this film also directed "007" James Bond before, so never miss the opportunity to see this "Child"!
"the War of the Red Cliff" (2008)
"the War of the Red Cliff" (2008) will be released soon early this year. Do you know her? She's 174 cm, weighs around 100 Chinese jin1 (less than 100 lb.), age abut 32. Still available like another Taiwanese girl. So now you know she's also Taiwanese. She's top model and no# 1 beauty in Taiwan today.
I like her facial expression in this movie which is her first one, that it seemed she's accurately delivering ancient Chinese women's - everything - unspoken, mysterious, complex and implicit feelings, to men and many others in general.
She's the top picked female to act in the film, very much favored by famous director John Woo (Hong Kong, China and Hollywood's). John Woo has strong confidence on her from the beginning, even most people have doubts. Now heard people there released that her performance is just as good as those masters, and commented "I just can't tell you now, you'll have to see it yourself"! Wa... What a surprise!
Current Two Hottest Chinese Actresses and Movie Stars
Current two hottest Chinese actresses and movie stars. Do you know anything of them?
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
15 Must See. How Many Now? I Can't Rememebrer. Let's Index It...
15 Must see. How many now? I can't rememebrer. Let's index It... Well, this young Chinese girl was later in the film "Lust.Caution", by the table of Ma2 Jang4, one of those 4 middle-aged weathy Tai4 Tai4, meaning wifes. I believe if it's not that Gong li has been taken by Zhang Yimou, or China still allows 4 wifes, she might be taken by Zhang Yimou also... Who knows? Zhang has a pair of perfect eyes for perfect women, no doubt of it.
Is She Her?
Is she her, or them? Can you image!? Anyhow, I think she has perfect joints - btwn her top arms and the ends of two shoulders.
Is she half naked or in whole? It seemed she's just out of a hot bath or in it? - Dangerous.
“the Chinese can be very romantic”
- “the Chinese can be very romantic” - a viewer of amazon.com
Romance set in Chinese countryside by Philchlee (movies profile) Oct 12, 2003 9 of 10 people found this review helpful
- The Road Home "回家" (Hui2 Jia1) is about our home and what it means to us. And this movie reminds us of that road we need to take, to journey back home. It’s about valuing love and being faithful. It’s about the rich meaning of home the Chinese culture holds - the sentimental value that has been eroded by the material value so easily purchased in the capitalist market. A broken bowl is not replaced, but repaired painstakingly by nailing the pieces together. The finest cloth woven with care and love.The story centers around bringing home a body from the hospital, carrying it by foot, with the belief that this way it will never forget the road home. This story was told by the son who came back from the city to the mountainous village of Shanhetun when his father died. As he begins recalling life in the village and the passion of his parents, he begins to realize that the home means more than a place to sleep. Of course, besides the meaningful story, the well crafted cinematography - another acclaimed work of director Zhang Yimou, you'll get to see the beautiful Zhang Ziyi, being in itself could make this the Best Picture. :) I applaud the good camera shots taken here! Can still picture Zhang Ziyi with the yellow autumn leaves in the background. You'll never want to see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon after seeing this :).
- a viewer of Yahoo! Movie
A Repetition of Non-Beauty
A Repetition of non-beauty, but a nice body. Believe me, human being's body is the most beautiful creature and treasure made by the universe, if you are lucky enough to have a good one. Show off sometimes! Hint: she's a Taiwanese, a current China nese - still. How about future?
A Repetition of Beauty
A repetition of beauty. Hint, she's Shandongnese. Same as Gong Li.
A current popular movie star in China, she has finally received an international award as a leading female role in Europe for her best performance in the film "Apple" 苹果 ping2 guo3. She's no longer to be a 花瓶 hua1 ping2 any more, literally "flower bottle", meaning "a bottle only for flowers as decoration".
Do You Know Any Connections btwn Her and the "Lust.Caution"?
Do you know any connections btwn her and the "Lust.Caution"? A hint: she lived in the building of this picture in Shanghai till 1952, then moved to Hong Kong, then moved to the U.S. a couple of years later. Later she died alone in an apartment building of CA, at 75 in 1995. A few months later, an employee in the building found the incident. She briefly married twice. Very short. Most of the time, she lived alone, had no children. I consider the Uncle Sam was supposed to be responsible for her living alone, living poor, and dying alone/poorly. Why? Supposed she came to the U.S with whole heart of "American Dreams" at the young age, due to America's propaganda of the capitalism - beautiful, tall, slender, talented, well-educated with good command of British English, rich in the beginning by carrying her money bag from mainland China. A proud girl, a Shanghainese and, a poor princess!
A Perfect Face, But...?
A perfect face, but...?
Not sure if she's Beijingnese, but definitely somewhere in mainland China. Her name might be called Chen2 Shu4.
How's She?
How's she? She's been taken now. Almost a year. By a man from Israel, a 12 or 13 or 14 years her senior. Heard that interracial marriage will create the most beautiful, most handsome, and most intelligent fruits, hopefully she will get married with that old guy (Chinese consider 40 was too old for her, particularly that guy has grey hair when just turned 40!) Hint: she's Beijingnese.
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