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5/13/2012 3:57:58 PM
It feels like happened yesterday. When I came to Canada almost 30 years ago I was having a coffee with a Chinese gentleman, a witty businessman and his words sounded like a prophecy. He took a deep breath, his eyes looked like if he could envision the future and he said “In just a matter of few years, China will attain an immense growth and wealth and become incredibly powerful and this will surprise a lot of people”. The success of Great China in every front is something really awesome and undeniable.
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5/8/2012 12:47:56 AM
Marriage in not only a great system ,but also a relationship between man and woman .
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5/2/2012 9:36:29 PM
I only had to wait 7 days to get my work visa after the long process of getting the paperwork together. My passport and papers only spent a few hours at the Chinese consulate, which means it spent more time in transit back and forth than it took for the Chinese government to look at it and give me my work visa page. Ironic when you think about how long things take when you deal with the U.S. government. I’d almost go as far as to say the government here is much more efficient than the U.S. but I’m sure I just haven’t run into the horror stories that others have encountered here.
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5/4/2012 2:44:10 PM
I have a twin sister, sometimes I will pour out my troubles of single life to her. Once my sister suddenly asked me, “Did you lose confidence in man, especially in Chinese man?”
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4/29/2012 9:22:25 PM
About one thousand years ago, a young girl who named ZhuYingtai, lived a small village, Zhujiazhuang, Shangyu, Zhejiang. ZhuYingTai was a beautiful elegant and very smart girl. She was fond of reading and loved to attend school. But in her time women were not allowed to go outside and acquire an education. Although Zhu was the only daughter of his parent, she didn't get his father's permission to travel to Hangzhou to attend school. Zhu felt so disappointing which made her ill. In the end Zhu's father gave in and agreed her to go to Hangzhou to attend school but she have to disguised (dressed) her self as a man. That means she have to pretend to be a man to go outside.
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5/2/2012 8:51:22 PM
When I left off I had just returned from Hong Kong and nearly didn’t make it back because of a “passport malfunction” aka washed twice in the wash. I decided that it was time to get serious about getting my paperwork straight just so I didn’t have to go to Hong Kong so much because once in a while is ok but when you have to go all the time, it gets old fast. So I put in all my paperwork and prayed for the best, because I had been advised by many foreigners online and in person in China that it would be a long shot for me to get my work visa.
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5/2/2012 11:32:03 AM
I just came across a fascinating article in the most recent edition of
Foreign Policy magazine. Don’t worry, this isn’t some dry treatise on détente or Thom Friedman’s latest paean to globalization. Instead, it is right up the alley of our shared interests and extremely relevant to your pursuits on this website Titled “The Startling Plight of China’s Leftover Women” and written by Christina Larson the essay begins with an interesting conundrum. If men outnumber women in Chinese society, why are there a growing number of unmarried women here?
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4/29/2012 8:16:25 PM
People refer a man who is afraid of his wife as henpecked. Philosopher Socrates says, If your wife is kind, you are lucky; if your wife is evil, you will become a philosopher. Ha ha, I guess this is why Socrates is the greatest philosopher.
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4/14/2012 7:16:47 AM
As you will know if you are a regular reader of the profiles on this site, many of the women describe themselves as traditional Chinese woman (传统中国女性). The word can evoke different responses from different people. I got an interesting perspective on it the other day from a friend, the Chengdu poet Liao Hui, during one of our bi-weekly languages exchanges, which are rapidly becoming my favorite part of being in Chengdu.
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3/22/2012 12:06:27 PM
Poetry, Robert Frost famously said, is what is lost in translation. The other afternoon I was given a chance to test whether this claim was true when I joined a workshop at the Chengdu Literary Festival. At the workshop, three Chinese poets brought along three of their poems while the participants of the workshop — a combination of Chinese translation students and native English speakers — broke into groups, with each group taking a shot at putting one of the poems into English.
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3/18/2012 5:05:40 PM
It’s a nice day here today, sunny and warmer in the day. Now sitting in my teaching center, I can smell the vegetables and flowers from the garden from five meters away. It is so quiet at night. Are there any frogs in it? I am wondering….
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3/12/2012 3:30:07 PM
It is funny how you can measure progress in something - most people would say that when learning a foreign language, progress should be measured against the number of words you know, or the number of lessons you have mastered or how well you write an exam. But my putonghua (Chinese common language) is mostly self-taught by flailing around in China using language badly, getting help from teachers and friends every now and then for a month or two (but not doing any homework) and listening to others.
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3/6/2012 9:33:36 PM
The call for stardom came quickly and unexpectedly as do most things in China – like earthquakes and cultural revolutions.
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2/22/2012 3:14:07 PM
I was watching a young girl and her foreign boyfriend the other day as I was sitting in a bar - as he was pontificating and espousing to her about every topic in China, she was sitting beside him looking intently, smiling and snuggling - obviously not understanding any viewpoint he had (American political history meets global conspiracy theories and China), I couldn't help but notice it was a match made in indifference - well, intellectual indifference anyway, since she understood “hello - goodbye - how are you” English and he understood “another beer - too expensive - hello sexy girl” Chinese.
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3/3/2012 1:30:50 PM
“A question ain’t really a question/if you know the answer too”
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2/22/2012 3:12:09 PM
I was doing some Internet searches last week - I am creating some brochures for my company so I was looking for happy, smiling portraits of Chinese people. You know, people satisfied with the services I offer, business people in suits that benefit from my limited knowledge, cute girls (without the duck-face pout or the V pose... that’s a hard one!) and handsome boys with slick hair and crisp shirts who become professional corporate ladder-climbers through my assistance... anyway, you get the picture.
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2/24/2012 8:49:59 PM
So I arrived in Chengdu with nothing more than I could pack into carry-on baggage. The reason I was limited in this way was because I had flown over on what is known as a buddy pass, which is something you can get if you know someone who works for an airline. It allows you to fly free (you pay the tax on the ticket) and often to fly first/business class, but you have to essentially go standby, which means you can’t check through any bags.
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2/22/2012 3:08:53 PM
A small piece of trivia crossed my path the other day, a few pictures from the ChengDu Police micro blog of eligible young policemen that may be suitable for 'shedding single status' this year...true, about 10 steely-eyed young men, 24-29 years old, each carrying automatic weapons or in poses of ’rushing to assist’ kittens out of trees and old ladies to cross the road... in full riot gear. It somehow had me giggling! Yes, I know that in other countries they do posters/calendars of semi-naked sports stars or local firemen going buff for charity with a strategically placed high-pressure nozzle over the nether-regions, but I haven't really seen the idea of photographing young men at work with the expressed objective of ’marrying them off’. What next, introducing 5 single farmers of the week on CCTV 4 between the news and weather report? Or Bachelors of the PLA between the pictures of them firing guns and driving tanks?
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2/11/2012 7:52:10 PM
Wow, where do I start catching up on what’s been going on in my life in China? It’s been a crazy 6 month sabbatical filled with some personal losses on the home front back in the states and with some successes here in China. Even though I’ve been a bit overwhelmed with everything going on, it’s not really an excuse for going MIA on you guys on here at CLM and I hope that by starting by filling in the blanks for everyone I can make sense of my descent into isolation.
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