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Old 2015-10-23, 23:10   Link #101
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Learned a couple things from dating a Chinese girl that I didn't learn from having a Chinese mom:
a) Chinese people seem to love keeping relationships outside the home before marriage.
b) this creates a great motivation to commit and get married.
I'll be married before the year is over.

EDIT: My Singaporean coworker is telling me how lucky I am to be with a mainlander. Not nearly as many archaic but obligatory formalities to go through with the families.
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Old 2015-10-24, 11:44   Link #102
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Learned a couple things from dating a Chinese girl that I didn't learn from having a Chinese mom:
a) Chinese people seem to love keeping relationships outside the home before marriage.
b) this creates a great motivation to commit and get married.
I'll be married before the year is over.

EDIT: My Singaporean coworker is telling me how lucky I am to be with a mainlander. Not nearly as many archaic but obligatory formalities to go through with the families.
What....shouldn't mainlanders and Taiwanese be the most traditional when it comes to such stuff?
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Old 2015-10-24, 15:22   Link #103
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What....shouldn't mainlanders and Taiwanese be the most traditional when it comes to such stuff?
Actually no, the republican revolutions in the 20th century helped break up a lot of the older traditionalist tendencies in the mainland and Taiwan, whereas a lot of overseas Chinese in SEA for example tend to be more traditionalist, among the Malaysians and Singaporeans I've known firsthand.
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Old 2015-12-17, 12:15   Link #104
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Whoa. Just. Whoa.

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Old 2015-12-24, 14:59   Link #105
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Definitely some scary stuff D0=! Hate to throw an anime spin on this, but its akin to those bully-like elements you see in various anime. This has got to violate some kind of law, in some kind of aspect =01.
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Old 2015-12-24, 19:04   Link #106
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So a effective tool to encourage sheep think and narrow mindness... this is so gong to blow up in China's face when it sends its foreign relation's toward acidic.

Since being influenced by external influences will make you 'bad person' and not say a useful bridge towards understanding different viewpoints around the globe . It will mean China will act on bad assumptions and undoubtedly put there foot in it again and again because there 'good citizens' really don't get what outsiders are thinking.
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Old 2016-01-10, 09:14   Link #107
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Hong Kong: Thousands rally over missing booksellers

If it's true that China has been kidnapping booksellers who oppose the Beijing leadership, that is a new low China has done.
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Old 2016-01-13, 06:24   Link #108
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Hong Kong: Thousands rally over missing booksellers

If it's true that China has been kidnapping booksellers who oppose the Beijing leadership, that is a new low China has done.

Yeah do pretty much anything to save everything they have.
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Old 2016-03-08, 14:50   Link #109
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The BBC broadcast a 6-part documentary on the history of China earlier this year:



PBS will air this series later in 2016 in North America.
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Old 2016-05-30, 12:14   Link #110
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Hong Kong Pokémon Fans Protest Pikachu's Name Change
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Old 2016-10-08, 02:52   Link #111
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Hollywood’s dangerous obsession with China
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Old 2018-06-25, 21:48   Link #112
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China's tech giants splash out in cartoon arms race
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Beijing (June 24, 2018): China's tech firms are engaged in a cartoon arms race to develop or buy Chinese characters in an animation market expected to hit 216 billion yuan (US$33.22 billion) by 2020, according to the EntGroup consultancy, trying to emulate the success of Walt Disney's ensemble, which ranges from Mickey Mouse to Iron Man.

Part of the winning formula has been the use of traditional Chinese religious and cultural themes, and characters. That, and improved quality in terms of art and storytelling, helped China's comic and animation market reach 150 billion yuan last year, according to EntGroup's estimates.

China still lags behind the Japanese and American markets, but it's catching up. Japan is the top producer of animation, while the United States dominates in terms of sales, taking a nearly 40 per cent share of the global industry, estimated at US$220 billion in 2016, according to a report from Research & Markets. China had around 8 per cent that year.

For Chinese companies, the development of compelling series and characters could also open up new business opportunities that companies like Disney have exploited, like branded theme parks, games, movies, TV shows, lunch boxes and clothes.

China’s tech giants play an outsized role in Chinese entertainment. Tencent, the search company Baidu, and Alibaba, the e-commerce giant, control most of the top online platforms from movies to sport, and are dominant in social media and online gaming.

These firms are looking to latch on to a surging sub-culture being driven by a young generation with a taste for animation, called "dongman" ( 动漫 ) in Chinese. This group is keen for more local-style heroes, according to industry executives.

They are also wealthier than their parents were, and have money to spend.

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Old 2019-01-23, 22:57   Link #113
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Super-Patriotic Anime Youth Wars!:

"Japanese anime has conquered China. In Chinese, the term “2D culture” (erciyuan
wenhua) describes both the television shows, video games, anime (cartoons), manga
(comic books), music, and movies inspired by Japanese pop culture and the millions of
Chinese who consume these products every week. This “second dimension” is one of
the fastest-growing industries in China—with more than 200 million consumers, the
market is projected to reach more than $30 billion by 2020.

But the runaway success of Japanese pop culture among China’s youth has caused
confusion, shock, and anger in a country still bitter over historical grievances. Many
Chinese see this as a war for the hearts of their children—one they’re losing.

This conflict is being fought out in editorial pages, boardrooms, and government
bureaus. The stakes couldn’t be higher: in the short term, tens of billions of dollars; in
the long term, the future of Sino-Japanese relations. Japanese diplomats hope that
the millions of young Chinese in the 2D world will push for a China friendlier to Japan
and its people. The Chinese Communist Party has responded by developing its own
anime and manga-based propaganda program. Below all this are the parents and
grandparents, aware that their children and grandchildren are submerging themselves
in a subculture designed to exclude them—one generated by the same country that
inflicted two decades of horror on China. Some accept this as a natural expression of
youth; for many others, it’s a terrible disaster."

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https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/23...n-pop-culture/
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Old 2019-02-01, 20:42   Link #114
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Below all this are the parents and
grandparents, aware that their children and grandchildren are submerging themselves
in a subculture designed to exclude them—one generated by the same country that
inflicted two decades of horror on China
. Some accept this as a natural expression of
youth; for many others, it’s a terrible disaster."
What's is this referring to? I'm bad at world history.
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Old 2019-02-02, 00:54   Link #115
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What's is this referring to? I'm bad at world history.
It's referring to Japan, since Japan started sending troops to China in the 1920s, then took over border regions, and finally started a much larger war that merged with World War II.
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Old 2019-07-22, 12:06   Link #116
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Wow, so interesting to read you, guys! I'm so happy to finally get registered in the forum - I thought they're dead long ago, huh
Warm wishes from Poland and I dive in the discussion!
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Old 2019-11-17, 05:45   Link #117
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First time to post here.

FYI, second gen Chinese-Filipino/Canadian.

Recently my folks went to see someone and I "had" to tag along. Went to see an old man... to be analyzed for a reading (Not sure if I can say soothsayer? Maybe someone else knows).

Basically, I was to avoid (as much as possible) not to drink anything black like soda and coffee (which I'm thankful for the latter) and black clothing like shirts and shorts (unfortunate for the latter since most of them are for jogging).

What was worse is that most of my (black) shirts are kept separate from my closet after that visit.

Man, I feel down 'cause some of those shirts had nice designs on it... like that Persona 5 Super Live concert shirt.
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Old 2019-12-30, 22:20   Link #118
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Why China's social-credit system gets thumbs-up from citizens
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London (Dec 31, 2019): The Chinese social-credit system has been given an unequivocally negative reception by the media in the West. Set to be rolled out nationwide in 2020, the system has even been described by one journalist as China's "most ambitious project in social engineering since the Cultural Revolution".

Once the system is fully implemented, Chinese citizens will be given a social-credit score based on their deeds. For example, failure to pay a court bill or playing loud music in public may cause a low score.

This score can dictate what rights people have. Those on the "blacklist" are prevented from buying plane or train tickets, for instance, as well as working as civil servants or in certain industries.

The fact that Big Data and facial-recognition technology will be applied for the purpose of monitoring citizens raises various concerns. The scheme has even been described as a dystopian nightmare straight out of Black Mirror. But what these accounts lack is a sense of how the system is perceived from within China, which turns out to be rather complicated.

(READ: China: High trust in govt, but sceptical about businesses)

Contrary to what many people in the West believe, in private and during informal talks among friends, ordinary Chinese are not shy or concerned about expressing their opinions about politics... And they're worried about what is seen as an intensifying crisis of public morality.

"Living in China...you have to be always on guard against others as pits of fraud are everywhere," said Mr Zhu, a man in his 40s. He was explaining his reluctance to let his mother use a smartphone as she may fall prey to online scammers.

He was not alone in worrying about what is seen as an intensifying crisis of public morality. Another woman — the mother of a newborn baby searching for a nanny — ended up installing secret cameras at home to help her choose a trustworthy one.

The people I spoke to seemed less concerned about giving up some privacy if it meant a significantly higher degree of security and certainty. Many perceived the new social-credit system as a national project to boost public morality through fighting fraud and crime and combatting what is currently seen as a nationwide crisis of trust.

There is a widely held consensus that the punishment for these offences is not enough to deter re-offending, with people committing crimes in one province and setting up a business in another the next day with few consequences. Some believe the social-credit system will remedy this through the blacklisting system.

'Social credit' inspired by the West

There is also another narrative which says that Western society is "civilised" because of a long-existing credit system. But this narrative is largely based on an imagined version of Western society. Many also assume that the idea of a social-credit system in China was actually imported from the West.

There are many apocryphal stories linked to this myth, including one about a Chinese graduate who finds herself outside China in a Western city and — despite being qualified — cannot secure a job, because of her past record of fare dodging on trains (an offence which stayed on her credit record).

The point of the story is that in Western societies, people who break even minor rules suffer significant consequences. Stories like this use "the West" as a moral showcase of what a "civilised" society should be. These stories may be false, but they are reflections of a commonly held belief that these problems were created by individualism and modernity in China and that the West dealt with the transition to modernity more effectively.

China's own transition from an agricultural collective society (where people always knew who they were dealing with) to a modern one characterised by reliance on strangers has led people to believe that navigating this requires guidance.

CNA.ASIA (First published in The Conversation)


About the author: This piece was contributed Dr Wang Xinyuan, a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. She conducted a 16-month ethnographic study in China in 2018 and 2019, to gain a holistic understanding of the daily lives of ordinary Chinese people.
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Old 2020-12-22, 05:57   Link #119
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Virtual idols take to real-life stage in China
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Beijing (Dec 22, 2020): A red-haired, teenage Chinese pop-star called Amy has won a breakthrough talent show in China. But there's a twist: She exists only in the digital world.

"Amy" found game on Dimension Nova, which claims to be the world's first talent show bringing together digital performers to dance and sing in front of three real-life celebrity judges.

Although the virtual-idol concept originated in Japan, these digital avatars are now stealing airtime in China, where they appear on TV shows, billboards and even news programmes.

They now command growing fanbases. Research from iQiyi, online-video platform based in Beijing, estimates an audience of 390 million nationwide.

The virtual stars in the show are created by a mixture of computer animation and actors. Amy's clothes, hairstyle and appearance are created by animators, before her human actor takes on everything else.

Real-time motion capture and rendering technology mean as the human moves, it is reflected by the on-screen idol. To prepare for Amy's performances, the actor had to take extra dance training. But creators avoid all mention of the existence of the actor behind the idol.

"Our logic is that every virtual idol has a real soul," said Beijing Mizhi Tech chief executive Liu Yong, whose firm created Amy. "They have their own personality, characteristics and preferences... They really exist in this world."

Liu Jun, 28, has long been a fan of Amy. He has attended more than 10 of Amy's concerts and fan events in recent years.

"You can't see what they are like in real life, so you can have more fantasies about them," he says. "The virtual idol is indestructible — as long as the image is still there, she can stay in your heart forever."

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