Hai from Shanghai
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I was walking down Zhongyang Jie (“Central Street”), Harbin’s famous pedestrian-only thoroughfare, when this happened.
(Forgive the shoddy camerawork. I’m new at the whole “moving pictures” thing.)
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The aforementioned opening-ceremonies welcome-show of some sort. A good example of something I’ve learned ex-pats would call “very Chinese.”
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Gong Xi Fa Cai, Everyone!
Cool little web video from The Times.
(And incidentally, I just learned that it’s not “Gung hey fat choy,” not in Mandarin, anyway. That’s Cantonese. Strange that that’s the version they taught us in elementary school, given that most Asian-Americans’ families don’t come from Hong Kong or Guangdong.)
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How Do You Say ‘Badonkadonk’ in Chinese?
In the age of YouTube and social media, American English lessons have been taken to another level. Meet Jessica Beinecke, a Voice of America journalist who decided that she could leverage all the web 2.0 tools at her disposal to create a show that taught Chinese youth American slang. It’s shot with only a webcam and was exclusively on Chinese Youku until recently migrating to YouTube.
Beinecke went viral in China much earlier than in the U.S., having somehow struck a chord with a video about boogers that garnered 1.5 million hits. She now has posted hundreds of shows — covering everything from “badakadonk” to “chillax”. The solo effort has paid off, winning hundreds of thousands of adoring Chinese fans on Weibo and accumulating nearly 8 million total hits on the shows. Read more.
[Image: Jessica Beinecke/ YouTube]
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Is China's Fast-Growing Economy Headed for a Crash?
Great “Making Sen$e” segment on PBS’s NewsHour.
![theatlantic:
How Do You Say ‘Badonkadonk’ in Chinese?
In the age of YouTube and social media, American English lessons have been taken to another level. Meet Jessica Beinecke, a Voice of America journalist who decided that she could leverage all the web 2.0 tools at her disposal to create a show that taught Chinese youth American slang. It’s shot with only a webcam and was exclusively on Chinese Youku until recently migrating to YouTube.
Beinecke went viral in China much earlier than in the U.S., having somehow struck a chord with a video about boogers that garnered 1.5 million hits. She now has posted hundreds of shows — covering everything from “badakadonk” to “chillax”. The solo effort has paid off, winning hundreds of thousands of adoring Chinese fans on Weibo and accumulating nearly 8 million total hits on the shows. Read more.
[Image: Jessica Beinecke/ YouTube]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3cwi75GR1qcokc4o1_500.gif)
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