childhood

The Tuluotuo Blog published a linguistic analysis of the “Go China 2009″ (or zhongguo jia you, “2009, 中国加油!”) recital on December 30. While an encounter with the video can be scary, it is also a good piece of work in terms of rhythms and probably better than many so-called “new poems”, says the blogger - and while [...]

The internet can facilitate friendship and understanding between the nations of the world. Umm… realization, anyway.
The China Digital Times published the text and a translation of an act that is apparently taught to Chinese schoolchildren - probably a local initiative by some nice Chinese patriotic teachers and unlikely to be publicly endorsed by the CCP [...]

 
Me was in an undemanding situation at skull for an hour or so. Had to pay too much attention to the situation to let real paperwork distract myself, but too little to do to do nothing by myself. So I watched the situation with my left eye, and did this little divertimento (see picture) with my right [...]

Besides music, my MP3 player also contains a number of audio books. The friend who put all that stuff onto the player probably knew very well that I’ve never cared about the more spiritual writings of Tibet’s supreme monk - I was only interested in his role as Tibet’s spiritual leader, and the cultural [...]

Thirty years of Reform and Opening-up in China. Ai Jing is a popular Chinese singer who was born in Shenyang in 1969. Once in a while, she sings a Russian song with Chinese lyrics, and some of her songs are about childhood memories - Once upon a Time in Yanfen Street is one of those memory [...]