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Tang dynasty and Japan
The next batch of photos that I’d like to share here were taken from the Huaqing Palace (華清池). It was once the gigantic bathtub of the Imperial Concubine Yang Guifei (楊貴妃) of Tang Dynasty. Like many women characters in history who were famous of being pretty, Yang was ususally blamed as the root of the An Shi Incident (安史之亂), during which the two Tang captials – Changan and Luoyang – were invaded and taken over... [Read More...]
911-style terror plot foiled by China
Washington Post – The crew of a Chinese airliner bound for Beijing thwarted an attempt to crash the plane last week, a Chinese government official said Sunday. The plane had taken off from the region of Xinjiang in northwestern China, where police in January raided an office of an ethnic minority separatist group. Police said at the time that they had killed two suspects and arrested 15. The Communist Party chief of the region, Wang Lequan,... [Read More...]
Orientals work like dogs?
In a surprise comment about the shopping on statutory holidays debate in Toronto City Hall this week, Coun. Rob Ford said: “Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their hearts out. They are workers non-stop. They sleep beside their machines. That’s why they are successful in life.” Ford went on: “I’m telling you, Oriental people, they’re slowly taking over.… They’re hard, hard workers.” A... [Read More...]
Is Chinese culture going mainstream?
(caption: America’s first cartoon character who teaches preschoolers Mandarin premieres on the Chinese New Year day.) The world has changed. “Ni Hao, Kai-lan” is only one signal telling the emergence in importance of China on the world stage. My friend’s nephew, now 4 years old, was born and raised in Hong Kong. His parents, both have studied in Canada and the US, are “traditional” elite Hong Kongers who devote... [Read More...]
MPs, reporters poles apart on journalism fairness: study
Canadian Media Research Consortium release – Members of Parliament and the journalists who report on them agree on the importance of accuracy, balance and impartiality in reporting, but are poles apart on just how far journalists should go to get their stories. Those are just some of the findings in an insightful new study of fairness in the media by the Canadian Media Research Consortium. The Fairness in News Study reveals that while MPs and... [Read More...]
And now China is king of ‘cultural goods’ exports too
Asia Pacific Foundation release – China’s economic surge has captured the attention of much of the world. Its export goods from cotton undershirts to computers have flooded Western markets. It has become, in common wisdom, the “workshop of the world.” Less noticed has been the rapid rise of China as a supplier to the US$60 billion-plus world market for cultural products. From a position of relative insignificance a decade ago, China has... [Read More...]
Amazing ‘Thousand-hand Buddha" performance
This beautiful performance is by the China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe. The choreography of the dance, Buddha with Thousand Hands, is breathtaking and awe inspiring. Even more amazing is that all of the performers are deaf and cannot hear the music. They have performed in Vancouver last February during the Chinese New Year. It was a big buzz in the community. More info here, and here. Except: In the 15 days after Spring Festival,... [Read More...]
A culture of suicide
Asahi Shimbun – A record high 886 students committed suicide in 2006 as problems at school continued to be a growing source of despair for the nation’s youths, the National Police Agency said Thursday. The figure was up by 25 from the previous year and is the highest since the NPA started compiling suicide statistics in 1978. Overall, the number of suicide victims decreased by 397 from 2006 to 32,155, the NPA said. But the number still... [Read More...]
And now promoting Chinese culture, language is a conspiracy too?
This is ridiculous!!! What is the problem of promoting one’s culture and language?? From what is reported in this article, the CSIS’s claim that China is using Confucius Institutes as “soft power” to drive for global dominance is pure speculation. It’s not supported by facts or evidence that the college is doing anything else other than offering language courses and stuff. What is the problem of promoting one’s... [Read More...]
