That fab career in screenwriting has not arrived. Is your blind belief in your abilities just delusion? Paul Peditto shares screenwriting traps to avoid.
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Your starter kit to teach kids Mandarin Chinese at home, including basic Chinese printable materials to use on your language learning journey.
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Entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh and graphic designer Noma Bar have created a system of illustrated characters and animations to help people learn to read Chinese
Entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh and graphic designer Noma Bar have created a system of illustrated characters and animations to help people learn to read Chinese
ShaoLan Hsueh shows how learning Chinese can be child’s play
In October 1949, the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong claimed victory and formed the People’s Republic of China. Socialist regimes now held power across one-fifth of the globe,…
There’s a collection of steamy homoerotic Communist propaganda posters from the 1950s floating around on the internet and we want some Sino-Soviet fan fiction about them. On Oct. 1, 1949, Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, with Beijing as its capital.
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There’s a collection of steamy homoerotic Communist propaganda posters from the 1950s floating around on the internet and we want some Sino-Soviet fan fiction about them. On Oct. 1, 1949, Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, with Beijing as its capital.
The next time you go to a restaurant, just get inside the kitchen and point at the ingredients you want.
Little Guests in the Moon Palace, 1972 You may recall a post I did a while back on Soviet holiday cards and their predilection for space travel. If you were able to get past the whole “Santa on a rocket ship” motif, you might have also noticed the prevalence of a little boy in cosmonaut get-up, another symbol of the USSR’s vision of an exciting future of fantastic technological advances—one which awaited all good little Soviet children. In the US, of course, the space race was a far more sober affair. NASA didn’t really produce this kind of propaganda, beyond some (admittedly very cool) space colony concept art. So while the US promoted a much more “dignified” view of space technology, Soviet space imagery was much more familiar. However, Chinese space propaganda makes the Soviet stuff look like military school. Progress is commonly represented by children and technology in a lot of nationalist art, but the Chinese child taikonauts are a step beyond. This stuff is so kid friendly, it had toys, puppies, bunnies, and all manner of toddler-friendly spacecraft. Perhaps hoping to excite the younger generations, these pieces abandon almost any semblance of science fiction...
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Terrifying Chinese horror stories with ghosts and demons are the staple of "Liaozhai Zhiyi," the classic Chinese compilation of supernatural tales.
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Illustrations on how to be a model citizen, inspired by Chinese propaganda posters from the '80s
What does your tongue say about your health? Did you know that your tongue is a mirror image of what is going on inside your body? According to Ayurvedic studies, your tongue is a map of all your or…
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Entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh and graphic designer Noma Bar have created a system of illustrated characters and animations to help people learn to read Chinese
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A collection of Chinese recipes compiled by Benedictine nuns in Peking. Most illustrations are lovely; there are some stereotype caricatures (the typical style...
The tradition, once revered, now banned, will be lost with these women. Photographer Jo Farrell is documenting their lives, and their feet. Warning: Graphic images.
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Study these five poems from five of the most notable poets of the Tang and Song dynasties. See English translations with pinyin and character breakdowns.
