150 TV programs including China Central Television (CCTV) in china have been cut for as long as 47 minutes by a satellite problem. It happened in Monday morning, when a malfunction occurred to Zhongxing 6B satellite. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television explained and also apologized for this disruption,see also.
As central radio and TV programs were transmitted through the Xinnuo 3 Satellite and the administration's special network, these programs were not affected, it said.
For me, this is not a problem as I rare watch TV broadcasted by the mainland china television station; those TV programs never attracted me, for they are always lack of creativeness and originality, be it Sitcom, Talk show and News (which always fooling the people). I once came cross a lampoon about those TV stations, says that one never have to worry about missing the interesting sitcom if you are in china for whenever you turn on the TV set, you are bound to find that at least three of them are broadcasting it, one at the beginning, one middle and one ending.
Personally I like watch the Phoenix TV, TVB and ATV from Hong Kong SAR on the Internet which can only be picked up in southern China (Guangdong Province etc).
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Today I wanna introduce to you the place I live and study. Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center("广州大学城" in Chinese, literally means Guangzhou University city). Here located ten Universities with my university included. The ten Univs are:
Sun Yat-sen University (The most prestigious one in south China)
South China University of Technology South China Normal University (Where I study)
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Guangdong University of Technology
Guangzhou University
Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
Xinghai Conservatory of Music
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center (HEMC) located at Panyu district, occupied the whole Xiaoguwei Island with an area more than 18 square kilometers, adjoining Guangzhou International Bio-Island, and accommodating up to 180,000 students and faculty. It ranks the first in China in terms of size.
With a total investment over 3,000,000 RMB to build it, it is also the most advanced, modern, and well-projected Education Mega Center through out the nation.
Convenient transportation, fast communication, high-tech facilities, bio-friendly and green environment make it the best place to learn and to work. Beside the ten campuses, a lot of places here are worth of visiting. The Science Center of Guangzhou which is adjacent with the University of Guangzhou offers you experience of excite as well as inspiration, the Lingnan Impression Garden is also an intoxicating place for you if you want know more about construction, custom and culture features of southern China. Not far outside the island, the Huangpu Military Academy which was set up by Dr. Sun Yat-sen at Changzhou Island attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors from the whole world; it is a must-visit place in this city.
When comes to facilities, it also has a lot of things to show off. Each University has a newly-built stadium and library. In HEMC, what you need is just one card to dine in all ten campuses, to shop in all supermarkets, to take buses in the city, even to borrow books from libraries and to phone your family. Is it cool? In the center of the island lies a lake, and at bank of the lake stands a giant stadium, in which the 8th National University Game was held, still exciting, some events of the 2010 Guangzhou Asia Game also will take place here.
Many people deeply impressed by the beauty of this island, and find it a fantastic place to study for it is much quieter than downtown. So come and pay your visit here!
Here is what it looks like from the sky:
HEMC in Chinese.
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It's reported(in Chinese) that the teachers in Panyu district, Guangzhou, will have their salary to match that of the civil servant there in 2011.
The primary and high school education has long been a problem resulted from many issue such as the different treatment toward the numerous substitute teachers. They used to get by with lower salary and fewer welfare compare to the formally recruited teacher (mostly local residents).
Also in this report, the teachers in the countryside will be equally paid with their urban counterpart. This is a really a good news for many normal university students as their will seek a job as a teacher in Guangzhou (though is no easy).
For this, the local Government has to allocate 560 millions RMB from fiscal budget.
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2008 is absolutely a year to remenber. In 2008 we witnessed the great joy as well as experienced a tremendous sorrow and grief. Is the 30th year that our country carried out the reform and opening-up policy, and also, the first year I begin my postgraduates stage. the time magzine chose top ten of everything of 2008, unavoidably, the 29th beijing Olympic Game is one of the topic. below are the top ten moment Olympic Game from time.com by Sean Gregory. Personally, I think the Grand Opening should be the Top 1 mement.
1. Phelps' Photo Finish
Michael Phelps was in a pool full of trouble. The American swimming phenom was going for his seventh gold medal in Beijing, a win which would have tied him with Mark Spitz for the most golds at a single Games. But halfway through the finals of the 100-m butterfly, Phelps was stuck in seventh place. Even as he made a furious comeback, it still looked like he would not catch Serbian Milorad Cavic, who was just inches away from an upset. Then Cavic made a fatal mistake, gliding toward the finish, while Phelps snuck in an extra half-stroke. It was a historic kick: Phelps touched the wall .01 seconds before Cavic, clinching a surreal victory. The Serbian delegation filed a protest, but frame-by-frame photos of the finish confirmed the undeniable ?Phelps had overtaken Cavic with that one amazing lunge for the wall. Phelps broke Spitz ' record the next day, but it was his last one-hundredth of a second victory over Cavic that will prove the most memorable.
2. Lightning Bolt
As Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt spread his arms and slapped his chest before the crossing the finish of the 100-m sprint, many stunned fans shared a similar thought: "Usain, are you insane? That early celebration just cost you a world record." Then, the time flashed on the board: 9.69 seconds, the fastest dash in human history. Viewers' revised reaction was: "You've got to be kidding me." The 6'5" Bolt (has there ever been a better name for a champion sprinter?) followed his 100-m histrionics by shattering the 200-m world record four nights later ?without any pre-finish theatrics ?and winning a 4X100-m relay gold two days after that. Not everyone was so pleased with his stunning perfor mance. Olympic purists criticized Bolt for celebrating before the finish ?and in the process, not getting an even better record time. The only thing more shocking than Bolt's times (and behavior) was his pre-race diet, which consisted almost entirely of greasy chicken nuggets.
3. Grand Opening
The pomp of the Olympic opening ceremonies typically never matches the drama of the athletic events themselves, but that all changed in Beijing. Over 15,000 Chinese performers took part in the ceremony; flourishes included 2008 percussionists pounding on ancient drums, dancers twisting around a traditional scroll to pay tribute to Chinese art, and a giant globe that rose up from the center of the stadium. Near the end of the dazzling spectacle Li Ning, the Chinese gymnastics legend and entrepreneur, 'jogged' a 500-meter lap around the top of the Beijing Bird's Nest before lighting the Olympic torch. Suspended in the air with flame in hand, only computer-controlled wires wrapped around his waist kept Li from plunging hundreds of feet to the ground. The stunt was a painstaking, yet breathtaking, finale to China's grand welcome to the world that only included a few missteps: organizers digitally enhanced some fireworks for television, and ordered a precocious seven-year old to lip synch a song sung by another young girl, who was deemed not cute enough for the screen.
4. Age-old Controversy
After gymnast Cheng Fei flipped across the floor and struck a final pose for the adoring crowd, a Chinese victory was assured. Of the host-country's world-best 51 gold medals at the Beijing Games, perhaps no other was as sweet, and controversial, as the women's gymnastics team win, its first in Olympic history. China had taken the world title two years before, with the U.S. wrestling it back in '07. The highly anticipated rematch lived up to its billing, though the U.S. failed to bring its A game. Alicia Sacramone fell during the floor exercise and balance beam, though she handled her disappointment with uncommon grace. But the sight of the tiny Chinese gymnasts, who appeared to be barely in puberty, heightened suspicions that they were using underage gymnasts. Working for NBC, ex-U.S. coach Bela Karolyi barked that the Chinese were "using half-people". Gymnastics officials investigated the allegations, which included some charges of multiple conflicting birth certificates, but they concluded that the girls were at least 16, old enough to compete. The U.S. got some measure of revenge in the individual women's events, when Nastia Liukin won the all-around and Shawn Johnson took the gold in the balance beam.
5. Redeemed Team
Entering the gold medal game against Spain, the U.S. men's basketball squad, dubbed "The Redeem Team," hadn't really been tested. During the previous seven contests, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Co. had smashed its opponents by an average of 29 points, including a semi-final blowout of Argentina, which had to play with little help from its ailing star, Manu Ginobili. The U.S. had already destroyed its final opponent Spain once, and the team's starting point guard, Jose Calderon, would miss the final due to injury. Gold, everyone assumed, would be a mere formality. But reclaiming the world's top basketball prize proved anything but easy. Spain showed up, cutting the U.S. lead to two, 91-89, with eight minutes remaining. Then Bryant got hot and took over. With three minutes left, and the U.S. up five, he hit a three pointer that gave the Americans breathing room, and was also fouled on the play. Bryant put a finger over his mouth, to quiet his critics. Normally, that would be construed as yet another instance of ugly Americanism. But in the heat of a classic game that carried enormous stakes, you could understand, and even appreciate, Bryant's raw emotion. The Americans won, 118-107, to recapture basketball gold.
6. China's Hurdles Heartbreak
After a false start in a preliminary heat, Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang headed towards the starting area like all the other participants. But instead of getting set in the blocks once again, Liu simply kept walking away, his Olympic medal hopes, and those of an entire nation, disappearing into the stadium tunnel. Liu had already been bothered by injuries leading up to the Games, and when he pulled up lame in that heat with what would turn out to be a busted Achilles tendon, he knew he was finished. It's hard to overstate the expectations saddling Liu, who won the 110-meter gold in Athens. "Officials told us if Liu could not win a gold medal in Beijing, all of his previous achievements would become meaningless," Sun Haiping, Liu's coach, told the press last year. That would explain the stunned, hushed reaction to his exit; 91,000 fans at the Bird's Nest, who came to cheer their hero, fell silent. At a post-race conference, Sun broke down in tears. He wasn't alone.
7. Reaching New Heights
Yelena Isinbayeva had the Bird's Nest all to herself. The night's track and field events had ended except for the women's pole vault, a sport that rarely gets top-billing. But here was Isinbayeva, with some 80,000 fans focused on the Russian as she had one more chance to break her own world record. The bar stood 5.05 meters high ?just a shade taller than the world record height of 5.04 meters she had cleared the month before. She sprinted down the runway, set her pole, and with the cameras flashing, Isinbayeva soared...to a thrilling new world record. Ecstatic, she did a flip to further rile up the crowd. "I felt like a famous singer," Isinbayeva said. "The whole stage was only for me. It was so cool."
8. Tragedy and Triumph
Despite all the security precautions China had taken, tragedy struck the Olympics on the first full day of competition. The father-in-law of men's volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon was murdered at the Drum Tower, a popular tourist spot, and McCutcheon's mother-in-law was seriously injured; the assailant, a disturbed, knife-wielding man who randomly targeted the victims, then leapt to his death. McCutcheon spent a week tending to his family, his team's quest for a medal suddenly an afterthought. He contemplated flying home, but his wife, ex-Olympic volleyball player Elisabeth, wouldn't let him miss the opportunity he had spent so many years working towards. So McCutcheon returned to lead the U.S. to an improbable gold, its first since 1984. "When I look back at this thing, I'm just going to think, 'Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful,'" McCutcheon said after the final win over Brazil. "And I'm going to mourn the loss of my father-in-law. We can do that. We can be happy and feel a tinge of sadness, as well."
9. India (Finally) Hits Its Target
It was only fitting that at the Olympic Games that cemented China's status as a sports powerhouse, the world's second-most populous country on earth, India, finally got a small measure of glory by winning its first individual gold medal. When Abhinav Bindra nailed the target on this final shot, giving him gold in the 10-m air rifle competition, fans poured into the streets back home. The 17th ranked shooter in the world, Bindra rallied late from fourth place to steal the title. Bindra's medal ceremony played in a ceaseless loop on Indian television, and strangers exchanged hugs over the accomplishment. "When the Indian National Anthem played at the Olympics and the Indian flag was raised, tears were running down my cheeks!" wrote a commenter named Vijay on the Reuters website. "This is NEWS!"
10. Upset on the Mat
Henry Cejudo had so much working against him. The son of illegal immigrants from Mexico grew up in crime-ridden apartment complexes. After spending years fighting with his older brother, Angel, in close quarters, he followed Angel onto the wrestling mat. He had no college wrestling experience, having decided to train for the Olympics full-time instead, and finished 31st at last year's World Championships. Just 21-years-old, Cejudo would contend in 2012, the thinking went: this trip to Beijing just offered some experience. But Cejudo defied wrestling wisdom, upset the '06 world champ in the first round, and made it all the way to the final, where he drove Japan's Tomohiro Matsunaga onto his back to clinch gold. He became the youngest wrestling champ in U.S. history. American flag draped over his shoulders, Cejudo ran around the venue crying, in one of the more moving celebrations at the Games. "I'm dreaming with my eyes open right now," he said.
source:Time.com
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"We have enough evidence to show that the book, Life of Zhang Yimou is a serious infringement of rights. Zhang Yimou has instructed a lawyer to prepare a case against the book's author and publisher," said Ping Xue, a public relations manager at Mr. Zhang's employer, Beijing New Picture Film Company, on November 24. It is the first lawsuit the director has initiated in his 20 year career.
Mr Zhang's lawyer, Tong Jie, confirmed the information. She said Mr. Zhang was deeply irritated after reading the book. The book contains groundless gossip about Mr. Zhang's family and about a love affair, and seriously violates Mr. Zhang's privacy. The lawyer said that her month-long investigation demonstrated that the book's sources were the public media and the Internet, not any figures that the book relates to. Even Mr. Zhang's autograph on the book's cover is counterfeit, she points out. The lawyer said that after collecting evidence on Mr. Zhang's behalf, she would probably initiate the lawsuit in middle or late December.The biography, Impressions of China: Life of Zhang Yimou was penned by Huang Xiaoyang and published by Huaxia Publishing Co., Ltd. Launched on August 9, immediately after the Olympic Opening ceremony directed by Zhang, the book was an instant hit. The book recounts a love affair between the director and actress Gong Li, who has appeared in eight of Mr. Zhang's movies, including Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern and Curse of the Golden Flower. It also describes how the affair led to the breakup of Mr. Zhang's marriage.
Reportedly, the publisher has got wind of the lawsuit it is likely to face. A manager admitted that the book was not authorized by the director and said the company would like to talk with Mr. Zhang to seek a peaceful settlement of the case. It could edit the book to deleted details about Mr. Zhang's private life if the director agrees, the manager said.
Source: http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008-11/26/content_16834322.htm
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Here are some ways to contact me.
Email:shubofan at gmail dot com / straibyrd at yahoo dot com
Gtalk:shubofan at gmail dot com
MSN:abnerfan at hotmail dot com
Addr:Student Flat No.4 Room 604
College of Literature
South China Normal University
Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center.
Panyu District
Guangzhou. P.R.China
Z i p:510006
Or you can leave a message here
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You make me feel so happy;Whenever I'm with you.You make me feel so special--This love is too good to be true. Rosemary Anne Nash
If you were a teardrop,In my eye,For fear of losing you,I would never cry.And if the golden sun,Should cease to shine its light,Just one smile from you,Would make my whole world bright. Hannah Jo Kee
Since the first time I saw you,I felt something inside,I don't know if it's love at first sight,I do know I really like you a lot. Tanya C Medeiros
Thoughts of you dance through my mind. Knowing, it is just a matter of time.Wondering... will u ever be mine?You are in my dreams, night... and sometimes... day.The thoughts seem to never fade away. Corwin Corey Amber
I have searched a thousand years,And I have cried a thousand tears.I found everything I need,You are everything to me. Barry Fitzpatrick
Her gesture, motion, and her smiles,Her wit, her voice my heart beguiles,Beguiles my heart, I know not why,And yet, I'll love her till I die. Thomas Ford
I just wish someday and somehow,We can be back together, Together we'll stay,Always and forever.
Whenever you need me, I'll be here. Whenever you're in trouble, I'm always near.Whenever you feel alone, and you think everyone has given up...Reach out for me, and I will give you my everlasting.
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Welcome! I am Abner Fan, a student in Guangzhou. I launch this blog because I thought our Chinese culture is so fascinating and charming, and it absolutely makes sense that to introduce it to foreigners.
I also think we can build a better world if people from both East and West can exchange the ideas and values with each other. the East and West are so different that we can't understand each other in terms of culture and civilization. But a better understanding is so important because one can't take a blind eye on each other! rather, we have to live on co-existence. That's the only way out, and I think that is also the only solution imaginable to end the conflict and hostility in this world.
This blog dedicated to explore the cultural resources and to offer a personal review and opinions on which people from both side of the world can find out something. It really helps me to leave a message asking a question or commenting a post, for that can lead me to think deeper and explore wider.
You may copy or reprint the original articles posted here for any Non-commercial purpose with attribution and a link to the post(if you post in your blog or site), and the article shouldn't be rewrited or abridged
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The black middle class has always defined its class identity by means of positive images gleaned from middle-and upper-class white society, and by means of negative images of lower-class blacks. The blacks achieved its positive images as middle-class mainly by hard working and sacrifice and the values of and kind of middle-classes while the negative images of black lower-class is from laziness and unwillingness to sacrifice. This doesn't have to spark hatred between the different classes.
The middle-class' values is something unchangeable regardless of race and ethnic. And if the black people still feel that most of the victims is the blacks they can be encumbered to achieve anything. The victim-focused identity can reimposes limitations that can have the same oppressive effect as those the society has only recently begun to remove.
From the 80'S and beyond, what is the black needed "to go somewhere" are hard work, education, individual initiative, stable family life and property ownership-these have always been the means by which ethnic groups have moved ahead in America.
What the middle-class black can offer to the lower-class black as a mean to help them out also just those values mentioned above. Only if the victim-focused black identity is removed from them can the lower-class black achieve its goal. To move beyond this identity the blacks must learn to make a difficult but crucial distinction: between actual victimization and identification with the victim's status. Until this is done they can continue to wrestle more with themselves than with the opportunities which so many paid so dearly to win.
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General Intro of the Research
Interviewees: Mainly Graduates from Literature School
Time: 24th Oct-27th Oct
Venue: Dormitory & Dining Hall
Gender: 10 male plus 10 female
Age : 23-28
See Questionnaire
Appearance
Is not so Important, but still count.
Most write “Accep-table” or “at least feel Comfortable to be with”
Age
General attitude:
Male: Is better younger than me while 1~3 years younger is most favorable.
Female: No younger than me, at least 1-3 years older than me.
But one female and two male said is doesn't matter.
Education Background
Male Female
Occupation
Only if decent and righteous: 4
Only if steady and lucrative: 4
Only if it can support a family: 2
Education: 2
Civil servant: 2
Doctor:1
Finance: 1
It doesn’t matter: 4
PS. There is no visible difference between sex on this issue
Income
Conclusion: making money is man’s business.
Family Background
Close to mine:3
No wealthy family: 2
From a happy family:2
Only if he is a money-maker:1(female)
Just get by:6
It doesn’t matter:6
No visible difference between sex on this issue.
Character
Man want a soft-hearted, kind generous and considerate wife.
Woman want a humorous, mature, filial, responsible, reliable, enterprising, honest, kind, caring, great-hearted guy to her hubby.
Hobbies & Interests
Both male and female want his/her spouse-to-be share the same interests with themselves. While in details, they choose as the graphic chart
When to get married ?
Sexual Orientation
Luckily! No one in our interview want to marry the same sex! Not even to think of it !
Questionnaire
Write down you requirement when you choose a male/female to be your spouse?
□ Appearance_ __ □ Education Background ___
□ Age ___ □ Occupation ___
□ Income ___ □ Family Background___
□ Character___ □ Hobbies & Interest ___
□ Ideal age to get married ___
□ Gender ___
Point out the four items which you think is most important by putting a “√” in the brackets.
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