What??? Why would anyone want to ban what is arguably China's most famous dish, the Peking Duck? Have these people tried it at all? Do they even know what they're missing?
Oh, okay, so it's not the dish that the EU bans, but the ovens that are used to make the dish, which are also used to produce Cantonese-style roast ducks and sucking pigs. These ovens imported from China are not certified CE (whatever that means) and, I dunno, therefore must be stopped or else they will be harming Europeans with high calories and saturated fats or something.
Beijing had a firework rehearsal on the 16th, and it's pretty awesome. (Also pay attention to the Bird's Nest which is all lit up!) If this is only a rehearsal, now I really can't wait for the Opening Ceremony.
Wow, someone in Hong Kong has created miniaturized LEGO version of the Beijing Olympics venues including the Bird's Nest, the Water Cube, the Athlete's Village, etc; an ancient Greek temple is thrown in as well. What a great job, seeing the audience members inside the Water Cube is almost too cute.
This news item is not directly related to China, but as we know, many Chinese girls have been adopted into American families. Here's a new study trying to look into the difference (if any) between adolescents who are adopted and those who are not to see why adopted adolescents are twice as likely to be sent to counseling than their counterparts. Special attention is also paid to those that are adopted transnationally.
Such complexities have only increased with the growth in international adoptions in the past few decades. Worldwide, about 40,000 children are adopted across national borders every year, through a network that encompasses more than 100 countries. In the United States, nearly a quarter-million children from overseas have been adopted in the past 20 years.
Bearing racial and ethnic traits clearly different from those of the parents who raise them, these children have little choice but to have their status as adoptees known to all before they themselves have begun to sort out the meaning of their situation, in many cases rushing their consideration of who they are, where they came from and why they were given up for adoption.
The Asia Edition of Time Magazine is running an interview with famed director John Woo with questions submitted from readers all over the world. His latest film Chibi (Red Cliff), a big-budget spectacular epic movie based one of the most famous battles in Chinese history from the Three-Kingdoms era, is currently playing in greater China and Asian markets. (See Youtube trailer here.) Hopefully it will be played on the big screens in the US soon.
The 21 members of the committee agreed to add Tulou, the unique residential architecture of Fujian Province in southeastern China, on the World Heritage List as a cultural site, bringing the total number of Chinese properties on the list to 36.
Built from the 11th century to the 20th century in the mountainous areas across Fujian and neighboring provinces, the Tulou buildings were aimed at meeting the requirements of a whole clan to live together. They also serve other functions such as defense.
This Wired article wonders what would happen to the English language when more non-native speakers are speaking the language (differently), and will Chinglish, or other variations, effect any changes to proper English.
And it's possible Chinglish will be more efficient than our version, doing away with word endings and the articles a, an, and the. After all, if you can figure out "Environmental sanitation needs your conserve," maybe conservation isn't so necessary.
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