Lunar New Year 2024 has just ended, landing us in the year of the Dragon, and it got me to thinking: there´s quite a bit out there on where/how to travel according to Western star signs, aligning destinations with your astrological
A slightly long (just over 24 minutes) but interesting documentary about the evolving culture of contemporary China from the ENDEVR channel of business-oriented documentaries. A great leap forward, indeed!
You might wonder why this is even a question. But in fact, the Chinese-speaking world has its own big Lunar New Year celebration (in 2021, it's 12 February), and so while much of the rest of the planet makes a big deal out of New Year's Eve toni
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Another example of urban China's infatuation with western culture - this wintertime classic is China's most popular song this time of year!
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恭喜發財! (That's kung hei fat choy to you.) As hundreds of millions ring in the Year of the Monkey for Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year), I'm reminded of one of the Chinese diaspora's great gifts to travelers across the planet: funky Chinatowns wher
Just learned how to say paparazzi in Chinese today: 狗仔隊 (gou3 zai3 dui4). Etymology: Wikipedia says the Chinese expression came about as follows: 此词 (paparazzi) 传入香港后，香港人改称Paparazzi为Puppy（小狗），一来是读音相近，二来此类记者的追踪行为也和狗相似。随后该词逐渐演化成了“狗仔队”，隨後再傳至臺灣等其他中文地區，之後
Read more…Continuing in the same vein as last week's post (posted on the comments board), here's another poem by 三毛, set to music, and sung again by 齊豫. A few years older than 夢田, the title is 橄欖樹(Olive Tree). Lyrics follow the video. Enjoy! 橄欖樹 (Olive Tree
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