Now here is a list of modern Chinese writers that I have learned quite tremendously from:
Wang Xiaobo: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Xiaobo ) He died in 1997, only about 45 years old. In my opinion, he is the greatest writer of modern Chinese. He has found the way to write beautifully with the plain Chinese. His novels [...]
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A list of modern Chinese writers
Posted in Chinese, Cross Culture Communication on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two ways to help China
Posted in Chinese, Cross Culture Communication on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So for people in the west who do care about people in China, here are two ways to help.
One is as mentioned in Chinese Renaissance, the bottom level cultural communication and engagement.
The other way is to stop the empire (quoting Blessed Unrest) right here in America. See the post On American Foreign Policy. Also [...]
The Chinese Renaissance
Posted in Chinese, Cross Culture Communication on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This article is written for people in America who really care about situations in China. With this article, I hope it can give a basic stretch of the cultural thread that China is coming from, e.g. China’s growth path, and thus might help Americans understand the real needs of China.
Every culture has its own growth [...]
Watching the Olympics opening
Posted in Chinese, Cross Culture Communication on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I said, I didn’t pay much attention to Olympics. So until I started watching it, did some questions come up to me. Now China is before the eyes of the world. This is the chance for China to express herself. How will China express it? For me, I am always looking for individual expression. [...]
The myth of Chinese population
Posted in Chinese, Cross Culture Communication on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This came up a lot at last night Olympics watching party. I feel there is some misconception here. People wonder why China and India have so many people.
Actually if you combine all the people in Europe, North America, South America and Australia together, you count all the European descents, the number might be about the [...]
Development and Environment
Posted in Chinese, Cross Culture Communication on August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is the third installment based on a conversation with a friend today regarding China.
As in the previous post, I said the stories in China are following a different thread than the ones in the west. The same is the issue of environment protection.
If we treat a country or a culture as one person. For [...]
A brief rundown of Chinese modern history
Posted in Chinese, Cross Culture Communication on August 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This is to continue the last post, which is actually a conversation with a friend.
The stories in China have a completely different thread than those in the west. To understand China and things happening there, you have to have some knowledge of this thread. Here is a brief rundown of Chinese recent history. (I don’t [...]
News of China
Posted in Chinese, Cross Culture Communication on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
People talked about polluted environment and so on in China. I didn’t want to response because if I responded people just thought it affirmed their assumption that I would defend my country. Besides, they are just bored. It is not like they really care about this issue. If they have sense, they will come [...]
Ha Jin’s Novels and Cross Culture Communication
Posted in Chinese, Cross Culture Communication, Novel on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Read of Ha Jin’s novel Waiting a little. Just talked with a friend about the novel. Now I feel it is better for me to just put these experiences down on “paper”.
I like the way he writes things. Very good story telling skills. When he writes about the scenery at the moments, unlike less [...]
