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Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan 香港导演——关锦鹏
Stanley Kwan is a Hong Kong Second Wave Hong Kong film director and producer. He was born on October 9, 1957 in Hong Kong. Kwan's first film was Women (1985), which starred , and was a big box-of
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The most passionate people in Yunnan province--Yi Minority云南最热情的人--彝族人
When you sing, dance, and drink with the Yi of Yunnan(云南YúnNán ): the most passionate of people. Take a glimpse into spirits burning with an inner fire,you will feel you are lighten up and
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Chinese myth-the moon goddess Chang’e中国神话——月神嫦娥
中国神话嫦娥的故事,讲述的是发生在数千年前大英雄后羿和嫦娥被贬下凡的故事,在历经千辛万苦获得不老药后,经过苦苦挣扎,嫦娥还是服下了不老药,回到了天宫
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Tips of China: Packing
Even though each passenger is allowed two pieces of checked luggage on international flights, flights within China limit each passenger to one piece of luggage not weighing more than 44 pounds.
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Tips of China: China Overview
China has 1.2 billion people, representing 56 nationalities. The best travel times in China are spring and fall.
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Tips of China: U.S. and China Customs Information
Each visitor to China is required to complete a customs declaration form and health declaration form; these forms are distributed by the cabin crew during the flight to China. The customs form mu
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Tips of China: Obtain a Chinese Passport and Visa
This article is to talk about some useful tips about How to Obtain a Chinese Passport and Visa.
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Tips of China: Money Exchange
The official name for the currency in China is Renminbi (abbreviated as RMB, the "people's money") with denominations of the yuan, jiao, and fen, which bear a relationship to each other somewhat
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Brief Introduction of China
Location The People Republic of China is situated in eastern Asia on the western shore of the Pacific Ocean, with an area of 9.6 million square kilometers. China's continental coastline extends f
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Cangjie Creating Chinese Characters 仓颉造字
Huainanzi(Masters in the Kingdom of Huainan) says that it was because of the characters Cangjie made that the Heaven rained grains and the ghosts cried at night.Xunzi(Hsun Tzu) and Shijing (The B
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勤俭节约归来 The return of thrift and saving
Is it stingy to wrap up leftovers? Is it too inconvenient to reuse office paper that has only been used on one side? Is it a loss of face to take the bus instead of drive a car? Of course it isn
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Chinese is so hard but to learn
It's pretty hard to quantify a process as complex and multi-faceted as language-learning, but one simple metric is to simply estimate the time it takes to master the requisite language-learning s
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Chinese Hard Reason 9: cultural conflict
Language and culture cannot be separated, of course, and one of the main reasons Chinese is so difficult for Americans is that our two cultures have been isolated for so long.
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Chinese Hard Reason 8:tonal languages are weird
I have to mention this problem because it's one of the most common complaints about learning Chinese, and it's one of the aspects of the language that westerners are notoriously bad at.
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Chinese Hard Reason 7:there are too many romanization methods
Well, perhaps that's too harsh. But it is true that there are too many of them, and most of them were designed either by committee or by linguists.
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Chinese Hard Reason 6: there's classical Chinese (wenyanwen)
Way too difficult. If you think that after three or four years of study you'll be breezing through Confucius and Mencius in the way third-year French students at a comparable level are reading Di
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Chinese Hard Reason 5: looking up a word in the dictionary is complicated
One of the most unreasonably difficult things about learning Chinese is that merely learning how to look up a word in the dictionary is about the equivalent of an entire semester of secretarial s
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Chinese Hard Reason 4: U can't cheat by using cognates
Chinese is so damn difficult because you can't cheat by using cognates.
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Chinese Hard Reason 2: It doesn't have the common sense to use an alphabet.
To further explain why the Chinese writing system is so hard in this respect, it might be a good idea to spell out (no pun intended) why that of English is so easy.
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Chinese Hard Reason 3: The writing system ain't very phonetic.
So much for the physical process of writing the characters themselves. What about the sheer task of memorizing so many characters? Again, a comparison of English and Chinese is instructive.