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Top 10 Beijing Books and Movies

The Beijinger magazine asked me to name some of my own personal favorite reading material about Beijing, and I obliged them with the following list, along with some movies thrown...

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Literature

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tomcarter

2 hours 2 min ago

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Using Audacity to learn Chinese (speaking and listening)

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Audacity is a marvellous piece of software that allows you to record audio (yourself, other people or whatever is playing on your computer), mimic native speakers, edit and enhance the...

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Learning Chinese

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Snigel

10 hours 51 min ago

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Adopted Chinese Girls and the Documentary, 'Somewhere Between'

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Last week, my husband and I watched the documentary, Somewhere Between, by filmmaker Linda Goldstein Knowlton. I highly recommend this film to you. It is about the lives of a...

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General

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BobbyM

22 hours 17 min ago

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Cannes: China Buzzing Over Jia Zhangke's 'A Touch of Sin'

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Chinese social media lights up after a trailer for the director's Cannes competition entry appears online, revealing scenes referencing some social ills in the country. “Based on True Events.” It’s...

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Arts & Entertainment

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chengdoo

1 day 4 hours ago

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Abducted Chinese boy finds his way home with Google Maps, 23 years later

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This is incredible. A Sichuan man, abducted as a five year old and taken to Fujian province, found his way home after spending years analysing Google Maps to work out...

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General

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erbaiwu

1 day 10 hours ago

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Chinese Women Allegedly Murdered for Performing Ancestral Worship Ritual

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In Kazakhstan, three women disappeared after ritual where they gave an offering of food in a cemetary only to be found dead and burned in a nearby field. However, it...

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China News

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terroir

1 day 11 hours ago

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Video: Chinese Worries

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Worries here can also be translated as anxiety. A study recent showed mainland China ranked first among 80 countries in workplace stress. Translated by Tea Leaf Nation's Liz Carter.

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China Videos

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Ryan

1 day 11 hours ago

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In a rare protest defying a government ban, hundreds of people in southern China turn out to condemn a petrochemical factory

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Several hundred people gathered on Kunming's Zhengyi Lu on May 16 to voice their concerns regarding the environmental impact of a proposed factory. The police presence at the gathering was...

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China News

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yereth

1 day 12 hours ago

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Can A Few Monks Save the Cardamom Forest?

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Cambodia, strapped for cash and desperate for energy, has turned to clearing its prehistoric forests for hydro-electricity dams. And China is only too eager to help.

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China Business

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MarkGrim

2 days 2 hours ago

overseas investment

hydropower

Cambodia

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John Thomson - do his photos mean something today?

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"What can we learn from 140-year-old photographs of a place and way of life that just doesn’t exist anymore?" In this hour's talk, art historians discuss the merit of Thomson's...

Cautionary tale for women who break up with "not rich enough" boyfriends. Make sure he can't afford a knife.

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Quick-thinking Anhui woman survives ex-boyfriend's knife attack...

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Warnings

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Ninja Economics

2 days 11 hours ago

knife attacks

break ups

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22 Year-Old Becomes Deputy Secretary, After Backlash Is Disposed and Disciplined

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Chang Junsheng is like any other recent university graduate in China, except that he's recently become the Deputy Secretary for the Branch Youth League Committee. Once the fury of the...

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China News

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terroir

2 days 11 hours ago

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Are "Leftover Women" Too Ugly to Marry? Top Economists Explain

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In “Rejecting the ‘Leftover Women’ Label", published last month in The New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow writes that some of China’s sheng nu (single women over 27) are calling...

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General

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Ninja Economics

2 days 14 hours ago

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Which public park in China is the best? Our vote goes to whisper-quiet Xihua Yuan in Kunming

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There are bigger parks in Kunming and some with more enthralling histories. Yet the city's more well-known public gardens often lack the one thing people in a teeming metropolis covet...

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China Travel

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scally

3 days 2 hours ago

Kunming (昆明)

chinese parks

outdoors

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Chinese mobile app tells you what your cat is communicating

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Those who say China is not good at innovating will have hard time arguing their case after this. A Chinese company announced a mobile app that can analyse your cat's...

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Tech-Web

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liujie

3 days 14 hours ago

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Capturing the Chinese Copy Town Trend

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In China, you can now visit the Eiffel Tower, grab fish and chips in an old English town, and even see the Manhattan skyline, all in replica form... Without even...

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Weird China News

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Heiney

3 days 18 hours ago

we want to be like you

don't hate us

emulation

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Taint Through yet

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Short photo article on recent food quality scares: While the public may be filled with disgust over recent food safety scandals, the problems of low hygiene standards and production hazards...

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China Health

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MarkGrim

4 days 6 min ago

food quality

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Will China and India learn to play nice through trade?

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The China-South Asia Expo is the next step in China's Bridgehead Strategy, which primarily aims to turn Yunnan into a hub for transnational trade. Could this position Kunming as a...

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China News

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scally

4 days 4 hours ago

india

China-India relations

international trade

Kunming (昆明)

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How to Make Congee Like a Chinese Badass

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Are you missing out on experiencing as local Chinese do? Want to know the inside scoop on how to make the delicious delicacy known as congee, or rice porridge ("粥")?...

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Food & Drink

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terroir

4 days 7 hours ago

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HK Shopping Guide for the Mainland Expat

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Hong Kong is Asia's shopping paradise, a seaside port whose history revolves around international trade, and the economic gateway to Mainland. Naturally, this makes Hong Kong the economic gateway to...

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China Travel