Other Weibo comics. Source post from Weibo.
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Other Weibo comics. Source post from Weibo.
The other day I brainstormed ideas for Christmas songs and movies with a Chinese twist. Twitter makes it easy to post simple ideas so I shared them with the twittersphere. If you can think of anymore, that would be great. Use the HASHTAG #ChineseChristmasClassics
Kiss of the Reindeer #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 6, 2012
Rumble in the North Pole #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 6, 2012
Crouching Elves, Hidden Mistletoe #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 6, 2012
I'm Dreaming of a Kung Fu Christmas! #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 6, 2012
We 3 Monks of Shaolin Temple #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 6, 2012
The Man with the Iron in his stocking #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 6, 2012
House of Flying Toys #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 6, 2012
Kung Fu Snowman #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 6, 2012
Enter The Santa #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 6, 2012
Drunken Santa #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 6, 2012
The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of egg-rolls danced in their heads. #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 6, 2012
Rudolph the 红烧 Hóngshāo Reindeer #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 7, 2012
All I want for Christmas is my new split pants! #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 7, 2012
I saw Santa doing 太极拳 Tàijí quán #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 7, 2012
Momma Got Run Over By Santa's 黑车 Hēichē (black illegal taxi) #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 7, 2012
Oh Little Town of Shanghai Let Nothing You Dismay #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 7, 2012
Good King Xi Jinping Looked Out on the Feast of Beijing #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 7, 2012
I'm Dreaming of a Silver Iodide Snow Christmas #ChineseChristmasClassics
— Magnus and MingXing (@MandMX) December 7, 2012
Roots, Fruits, Shoots and Leaves: A Guide to Shopping at Chinese Fresh Food Markets
Have you ever wondered about that wacky-looking fruit staring back at you in the market? Or did you want to know how to prepare a seasonal Chinese vegetable, but don’t have the language or culinary skills? This pocket-sized guidebook to fresh produce – with photographs, pronunciation guides, Chinese characters and advice on cooking – will help tourists, foodies and adventurous shoppers navigate the colorful markets of China, Hong Kong and Chinatowns around the world.
-This whole series of “Scenic Musical Journeys” looks really good! But we’re biased to Shanghai! Watch the Trailer here.
Naxos Scenic Musical Journeys Shanghai A Cultural Tour with Traditional Chinese Music
The city of Shanghai, China’s most important port, owes some of its prosperity to the so-called unequal treatises forced on China during the 19th century. The place had its origin as a settlement during the Tang dynasty (618-906 C.E.), but the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ceded Hong Kong to the British and made possible the development of foreign trade through the five ‘treaty ports’, of which Shanghai became the most important. The growth of Shanghai into an international trading centre and the concessions made to various foreign countries explain the interesting mixture of architectural styles, continued today with the high-rise buildings of recent years. The music chosen for this tour of Shanghai is played on traditional Chinese instruments. Performing the music are the wind and string ensembles known as ‘silk and bamboo’, from their silk strings and bamboo pipes, and ensembles that also include percussion. Instruments given prominence include the dizi, heard first in Moonlight Autumn Night by the Lake, a transverse bamboo flute, and the yangqin, a Chinese dulcimer whose strings are struck with two bamboo sticks. Traditional Chinese music, like Chinese painting, is largely representational, its character indicated in its titles, although these may sometimes be drawn from opera or from poems.
Weiqi Wonders: Conversations About the Game of Go in China
Known as “Go” in English, Weiqi is a Chinese board game that has cultural associations ranging from Confucian nobility to military strategies. In talking about this game people reveal themselves, their society, and their views of other cultures.
Explore a different side of China through interviews with teachers, university students, senior citizens, amateurs and professionals.
-Haunting… watch the trailer here.
Aftershock
Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother. AFTERSHOCK follows the family on their separate journeys over the course of the next 32 years, as they build lives forever shadowed by the traumatic experience of the earthquake, and eventually face each other and the decisions of the past.
The acclaimed epic that broke all box-office records in China, AFTERSHOCK Featuring an all-star cast including Jingchu Zhang (Rush Hour 3) and Daoming Chen (Hero), AFTERSHOCK shines with its powerful exploration of how one moment can change a family s life forever.
-Oh no they didn’t… 
Disney World Cinema High School Musical: China
From the Disney World Cinema Collection, High School Musical China captures all the excitement, drama, music and dance of the original U.S. film with unique Chinese characters and extraordinary adventures. A new student at an international college in Shanghai meets a gifted young man, with whom she shares a secret passion for singing. Without her parents’ support, she and her new group of friends enter an inter-school singing competition and discover their true calling and the value of friendship. Anything is possible when you follow your dreams!
-Looks low budget. See the trailer here.
It’s time I chose a direction and the Far East is as good as any,” shrugs David Braddock (James Snyder, Sheís the Man), exactly the kind of aimlessness that has his parents worried about their newly minted college grad. Pressured to travel to Shanghai on behalf of the troubled family business, the party’s over and David is reluctantly thrust into a country strangely unaltered by the modern world. His translator (popular Chinese actress Fei Fei Sun), a beautiful young girl as directed as he is directionless, attempts to help the struggling David. Problem is no one seems to take him seriously there either! But ñ despite the language barrier, cultural differences, culinary shock and a near international incident – romance blossoms. David returns a changed man, but the family business is in worse jeopardy than before. Determined, David returns to Chinato see things through both professionally and personally. Will this fish-out-of-water finally find his way?
Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet – an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.
Working over several years in classic verité style Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan (with the producers of the hit documentary Up the Yangtze) travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like so many of China s rural poor, Zhang Changhua and Chen Suqin left behind their two infant children for grueling factory jobs. Their daughter Qin – now a restless teenager – both bitterly resents their absence and longs for her own freedom away from school, much to the utter devastation of her parents.
Emotionally powerful and starkly beautiful, the multi-award-winning Last Train Home‘s intimate observation of one fractured family sheds unprecedented light on the human cost of China’s economic ‘miracle’.
From Materialism to Nukes, My Students Have a Fascinating View of China’s Ever Expanding Growth and Power
China will rule the world. Mark my words people.
— Luqman Karam (@iamlucky23) November 10, 2012
China will one day rule the world! Do you agree or disagree?
1. ”Yes, I agree because China makes most of the stuff we buy.”
Susan’s answer is the cynical American’s view. China rules us because they make everything that we use. Besides the inherent untruth to that, imagine if that were actually true! Take a second today and count just how many things you buy on a daily basis that are “Made in China” and you’d be surprised how few there are.
2. “I disagree with this statement. I disagree because I believe in my country.”
Sam’s answer begs the question, “Does America rule the world?” To which I would surmise his answer to be yes. Another further question should be posited to be “what exactly do you believe your country should be able to do?”
3. “No, I disagree because China and USA have gone to war before and USA has won.”
So true, Greg. But that resulted in the creation of North and South Korea, and too many deaths on both sides. We don’t want that to happen again right?
4. “No, every country and state has its own rights. One place can’t control the whole world. There are many differences between everyone’s religion.”
Arianna has the jack of all trades answer. It tries to be everything to everybody. Yes, there are rights and yes, not one place can control the whole world, but why was religion brought into the picture?
china will rule the world sooner rather than later
— Ross Chalmers (@RossChalmers94) November 15, 2012
6. “I don’t agree because in America we have more stuff than China and China’s technology is not as fast as our technology in America. I don’t even think they have cellphones.”
Interesting Gary. Very interesting. So materialism will save America, right? And what exactly do you mean by China’s tech isn’t as fast as US tech? Are we talking fast computers or the rate of growth? But you’re 100% wrong about the whole cellphone thing.
7. “I disagree because so we’ll all have peace.”
Well, Justin, just because you disagree that China will rule us all one day, it doesn’t necessarily mean that there will be peace. I guess one could look at the Cold War as a period of peace but what a tenuous peace.
8. “I disagree because we will nuke them if they try to take over because they will try to eliminate us.”
Manuel’s answer might take the “video game answer award!” We’ll just nuke ‘em! Nice. Too bad China’s a nuclear power too (since the 60s) and they won’t take it so lightly that we’ve fired a nuke at them and most likely they’ll retaliate. Nice. Back to the Cold War.
Those with the most Gold will Rule the World! China! Also has 95% of All Rare Earth Material that's ever been discovered! Look it up!
— Superman Chris (@chris23superman) November 14, 2012
Mx is such a great teacher and our boy can really memorize songs. (perhaps he gets that from MX, not me.) This was a song that she taught him a while back and a song that many children learn while growing up in China. Since our boy is creative and has all these grandparents he decided to sing to each one of them. The song might be repetitive but hopefully by the end of 3 minutes you too can sing the song.
For those of our fans in China here’s the Youku video!
