Ah yes, TV.  We wouldn’t have learned the word for Boob Toob, idiot box or a big waste of time right?  No just TV.  Literally, the Chinese is “Electric to look at” which is similar to computer (electric brain) and telephone (electric voices).  TV in China is almost as ubiquitous as hamburgers in America.  Everyone has at least one.  Which is funny because when I was growing up, TV was not something that was central in our lives.  I mean Sunday evenings we watched some nature programs and then the incessant “tick tock tick tock” of 60 Minutes came on which I always thought was boring at the time.  Heck, I can still recite the names they would say at the beginning of “I’m Harry Reasoner, I’m Ed Bradley, I’m Mike Wallace, those stories and Andy Rooney…” which is becoming a shorter list since one by one they are dying.  But my mother strongly controlled our TV watching when I was young and I remember sneaking down when they were at Bible study to watch MacGyver and Quantum Leap!  Anyway, TV is really big in China and continues to be.  Living rooms are centrally arranged to worship the almighty entertainment bringer.  The TVs that I saw in China are bigger than any TV we ever had in our home.  The doodle that I drew says “I watch TV.”

You can see a cheesy Chinese TV drama here!  You can see an amazing Chinese food TV Documentary here.

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