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Broadway's Big Fat Musical Comedy "Hairspray" Aiming China

( 2008-06-26 )

Summer is the season for musicals. Last year it was “Mamma Mia!” set in a Greek town - this time “Hairspray” from Broadway takes us to a 1960s American city.

“Hairspray,” winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical in 2003, will be on the stage of Beijing Exhibition Center Theater from July 25 to 30. Before coming to Beijing, it will premiere at Shanghai Grand Theater on July 5, and will be released for 20 times till July 20 to meet the
needs of audiences. This is the first time after “Mamma Mia!” that China stages new musical simultaneous with New York and London.

The show by Networks Presentation is based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters, who served as a creative consultant on the musical comedy. It features a book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan.

Audiences will be swept back to 1960s Baltimore in this toe-tapping musical, piled bouffant-high with laughter and romance - and enough deliriously tuneful songs to fill a nonstop platter party.

It’s 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland. The 1950s are out and change is in the air. Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion - to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, “The Corny Collins Show” and overnight is transformed from outsider
to irrepressible teen celebrity.

But can a plus-size trendsetter in dance and fashion vanquish the program’s reigning princess, win the heart of heartthrob Link Larkin, and break in to the television show without denting her do

The original score was written by Academy Award-nominated Marc Shaiman who also wrote the lyrics with Scott Wittman. The production is based on Jack O’Brien’s original direction and Jerry Mitchell’s original choreography, recreated by Matt Lenz and Danny James Austin.

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Chinese School - Tips about Adopting a Quake Orphan

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Do's and Don'ts of Helping Children

According to experts sent by the All-China Women's Federation to help children in quake-affected areas, extra care is needed to help these children. How they are handled today can seriously impact their ability to cope with their traumatic experiences in the future.

10 don'ts:

1. Don't lie. If the child's parents have died, don't lie to them.

2. Don't give false hope by promising things that cannot be fulfilled.

3. Don't force the child to recall the quake, or talk about it. Don't say things such as, "Just tell me."

4. Don't intervene with the child's emotions by saying things such as, "Don't cry", "Be brave", or "Just cry" as kids have their own ways of expressing their feelings.

5. Don't tell the child he or she is poor and needs sympathy.

6. Don't try to replace their parents by saying, "It doesn't matter. We all love you."

7. Don't over compensate. This may cause the child to become overly dependent.

8. Don't think of yourself as a savior, or the only person who can help the child. Help them find their own way to heal.

9. Don't make them feel guilty. Avoid saying "You are already very lucky", or "Your situation is much better than others'".

10. Don't pry. Our curiosity could cause further emotional injury to the children.

5 do's:

1. If possible, give them a lot of body contacts. But if the children refuse, don't insist on doing so.

2. Build trust. Start forming this bond with daily greetings and then work up to conversation.

3. Once the trust is built, give the child small gifts such as chocolates, pencils and paper to let them know they have someone who cares about them.

4. If time permits, give the child alternative ways to express his or her feelings such as drawing or storytelling.

5. Tell them, "I'm always here for you when you need my help". You may provide a unified phone number or address.

Editor: Wang Nan

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Chinese Studies - French Orchestra to Tour China

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French Orchestra to Tour China

Michel Ayroles, a renowned French musician has said here that he hopes music could help to defuse tensions between France and China as his orchestra prepares for a week-long tour to China.

"There are real difficulties in France-China relations and we want to take advantage of our tour in China to defuse tensions between the two countries, because music is always a good way to overcome differences," Ayroles said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.

Ayroles expressed regret over disturbances during the Olympic torch relay in Paris on April 7.

According to Ayroles, the French who took part in the protests did not know about Tibet's history and the Western media reports were "irresponsible" on the riots in Lhasa, capital of Tibet.

"I know a little about Tibetan history and I know Tibet, also known as 'the roof of the world', has been a part of China for a long time," said the musician.

Ayroles said he understood the indignation of the Chinese people in the face of the distorted media reports over the riots in Tibet and the disruption of the Olympic torch relay by Tibetan secessionists in Paris.

"We want to take advantage of our tour in China to demonstrate that French people are not hostile to China, because music is a universal language," said Ayroles.

France and China have enjoyed "a long history of good ties" and the temporary difficulties will not affect the development of this positive relationship," said the orchestra leader.

The National Orchestra des Pays de La Loire is scheduled to leave for a week-long tour to China on April 22. It will give its inaugural concert on April 25 in Qingdao, a port city in east China before going to Beijing and Hong Kong.

According to Ayroles, it is a "good coincidence" as Qingdao and Hong Kong are also the cities to host some games of the 2008 Olympics.

The orchestra has invited Song Siheng, a young Chinese pianist who won the grand Jacques Thibaud prize at the Marguerite Long, for the upcoming tour.

"I went to China to give performances in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Wuxi in 2002, and I was warmly received by the Chinese people," said Ayroles, adding that he looked forward to another memorable time in China.

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HSK Exam - Chinese Acrobatic Ballet "Swan Lake" Applauded by Austrians

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Chinese Acrobatic Ballet "Swan Lake" Applauded by Austrians

Dr. Margareta Griessler, deputy director of the General Office of the Vienna Government, also praised the performance, saying "it is the perfect combination of eastern and western arts, it is really remarkable."

The Troupe had performed nearly 20 times during its tour to Western Europe and was warmly welcomed by audiences in Germany and Austria.

Editor: Wang Nan

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Learning Mandarin - Entertainment

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Entertainment

A Tiger and a Pig

A Tiger, a Pig, a Lion and a Tiger-shape Pillow

A Tiger-shape Pillow

Tigers

A Lion Chasing Balls Made of Strips of Silk

A Dragon

Various Lantens

A Tiger-shape Pillow

Puppets

Drums, Cymbals and Wood Clappers

An Overview of the Exhibition Hall

Tigers

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Learning Chinese - Valentine's Day, all you need is Love

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Valentine's Day, all you need is Love

Have a Test

Do you dream of being married soon Perhaps you have a lover now or maybe you are single. Worried Confused Relax. Help is on the way! Answer the questions below. When the results are tallied at the end of the test, you will have all the answers you need and find that perfect love. Good luck!

1. Do you think you are an old woman (or man) now

(Yes, go to question 4, No, go to question 2)

2. Do you pay special attention to your facial makeup

(Yes, go to 3, No, go to 10)

3. Was your first love in high school

(Yes, go to 12, No, go to 11)

4. Do you like to watch Sumo programs

(Yes, go to 6, No, go to 5)

5. Would you like to hold your wedding ceremony on the water

(Yes, go to 7, No, go to 13)

6. Have you ever had an “out-of-body” experienc

(Yes, go to 13, No, go to 8)

7. If your chopstick falls onto the floor, do you pick it up, wipe it off and continue using it

(Yes, go to 15, No, go to 9)

8. Do you love gambling

(Yes, go to 15, No, go to 10)

9. Did you have a sexual relationship with a man (or woman) after 20

(Yes, go to question 17, No, go to question 19)

10. Do you like the smell of coffee more than its taste.

(Yes, go to 17, No, go to 11)

11. Do you telephone people more than they call you

(Yes, go to 19, No, go to 17)

12. Do you have a baby face

(Yes, go to 19, No, go to 11)

13. Are you familiar with the order of the 12 traditional Chinese zodiacs

(Yes, go to 22, No, go to 14)

14. Have you had more than three men (or women) propose to you

(Yes, go to 24, No, go to 23)

15. Is there a mole on your posterior

(Yes, go to 16, No, go to 14)

16. Have you ever wanted to marry a person on first sight

(Yes, go to 24, No, go to 25)

17. Do you ever fantasize about going through a time tunnel to see the future

(Yes, go to 18, No, go to 26)

18. Have you ever gone on a blind date

(Yes, go to 25, No, go to 26)

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Learn Chinese online - Having a Blast with the Past

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Having a Blast with the Past

Ask Helen Lai for an explanation of the relationship between ancient scripts and contemporary writing. The acclaimed choreographer of the Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) was inspired by both to create HerStory, which premiered at the Hong Kong Cultural Center Studio Theater, last
month.

The ancient script in this case was "nushu", literally "women's writing". It was a unique form of written language developed 400 years ago by the women of Jiangyong County, Hunan province, to communicate in secret. Lai learned about it 10 years ago in a Chinese magazine article.

"I was intrigued and instantly thought of creating a dance about it," Lai says. "But the topic was typically Chinese, involving an ancient tradition and people; while classical or folk dance doesn't feature in my background. Also, due to the circumstances, 'nushu' often conveys a strong sense of
being suppressed. This was not the sentiment I was interested in expressing through my work."

So the idea was dropped, and was only picked up again when Lai encountered some writings last year by contemporary local female authors, Wong Bik-san and Xi Xi.

"It was then that I realized the term 'nushu' could also mean 'women's writing' in its broader sense. In that case, it is not an arcane language, but part of a constantly expanding and evolving vocabulary for women."

This revelation allowed Lai to transcend the pages of the ancient texts and create a powerful dance about modern women searching for their own identities.

This is not the first time that Lai and her fellow choreographers at CCDC have made something decisively contemporary out of an idea that has been in existence for hundreds, or even thousands, of years. Lai's Revolutionary Pekinese Opera was created 10 years ago, for Hong Kong's handover to China.

"The title was originally given by a Japanese composer for his musical creation. That piece is a crazy collage mixed up with everything from Western music and revolutionary Chinese songs to radio advertisements and newscasts - in both Chinese and Japanese. The cacophony of sounds and jarring notes
made my heart speed," Lai says.

"I felt this piece of music captured the prevailing mood of the Hong Kong people before the handover - anxiety mingled with fear and expectation."

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Exhibition Board

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Chinese Mandarin - Sun Simiao

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Sun Simiao

Sun Simiao (581-682) was a great medical scientist of China in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). His native place was Jingzhao Huayuan (now Sunjiayuan in Hui County, Shaanxi Province).

Sun Simiao's viewpoint on medical ethics was very important in the history of Chinese medicine. In hisQianjin Yaofang(Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold), he put forward the notion of "good faith of a great doctor" for the first time, offering an all-round argumentation on the
guiding rules of medical ethics a doctor must hold to. "Human life is of paramount importance,more precious than a thousand pieces of gold; to save it with one prescription is to show your great virtue." His book was named as "Qianjin Yaofang" (Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of
Gold), which was just a manifestation of such a noble moral character. He gathered and studied the medical data before the Tang Dynasty, with reference to his own clinical experience of several decades, wroteBeiji Qianjin Yaofang(Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold for
Emergencies) andQianjin Yifang(Additions to the Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold), which have 30 volumes each and are collectively calledQianjin Fang(Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold). It is said that there is one volume ofZhenzhong Sushu(Precious and Secret
Prescriptions),Shesheng Zhenlu(Advice on Sanitation), three volumes ofFulu Lun(Treatise on Happiness), one volume ofHui San Jiao Lun(Treatise on the Three Religious Schools), and one volume ofNotes to Zhuangzi,Notes to Laozi,Canon of the Tortoise,Notes to Mingtang Charts,Canon of Master Sun,Golden
Food Therapy,Xuannu Fangzhong Jing(Canon of Sex Art), andJin Jing(Forbidden Canon), respectively.

Sun Simiao paid great attention to women and children's care and wroteThe Prescriptions for Womenin three volumes and the Prescriptions for Children and Infants in two volumes, which were taken to be the beginning of theEssential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold.

In pharmacology,he collected many empiric methods, used for processing, classifying and storing of drugs.

Sun Simiao's study on health care was very profound. He advocated putting prevention of diseases at the first place, stressed the importance of "restraining the desires to cultivate mental poise","caution in speech", and "moderate in eating". All such ideas can serve as good reference for the
present-day gerontology and gerontotherapeutics.

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Forum: Adsotrans.com Forum 1st March 2008, 10:08 PM

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Adso instruction(s)

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Re: Adso instruction(s)

Using the adso-080216.sql database, I get these results:

steve@wearable:~/chinese_dictionary/adso-v5.023/source$ ./adso -f lxf_prologue.u8 -ie utf8 -is
traditional -oe utf8 -os traditional...



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Adso instruction(s)

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Re: Adso instruction(s)

Thanks! I'll try to test it in the next couple of days.

If you want to make a debug version (printing out method entry and exit, and possibly key
parameters/variable values) I'll be happy to run it...



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Adso instruction(s)

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Re: Adso instruction(s)

I created the adso directories and have write permission in them. Using sudo didn't change the
(lack of) results, nor did using a two-line file instead.

Ubuntu 7.10 32-bit
g++ (GCC) 4.1.3 20070929...



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steve@wearable:~/chinese_dictionary/adso-v5.022/source$ ./adso -f lxf_prologue.u8 --code
--extra-code " AND chinese_utf8c>


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Adso instruction(s)

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Re: Adso instruction(s)

I'm afraid this produces an empty file when I run it. I tried different things, but IIRC adding
--vocab before --code results in the vocab output format.

The vocab format is useful enough, though...



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Adso instruction(s)

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Re: Adso instruction(s)

Thanks, that made a big difference and produced useable output. Wenlin still doesn't recognize the
output file as UTF-8, but perhaps that's a Windows/Linux problem, or a Wine problem.

Is there a...



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Adso instruction(s)

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Re: Adso instruction(s)

I thought I did that, but the results seem to indicate something is...



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Adso instruction(s)

Is there a unified set of instructions for compiling Adso? The two READMEs seem slightly out of
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Started studying Chinese language &amp;...

Started studying Chinese language & culture because I was interested in the culture, the
language came with that and as I am quite good at learning languages that was no problem.
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Has anyone seen Chinese translation clips of Star...

Has anyone seen Chinese translation clips of Star Wars on the internet?

Someone took the Mandarin subtitled version of a Star Wars movie and translated them BACK into
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... I apparently wrote that, in my younger years....

... I apparently wrote that, in my younger years. Do you read French?
http://perso.orange.fr/calounet/biographies/shansa_biographie.htm
Sorry, actually 7 years before first published novel.
For...



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This young lady...

This young lady (http://www.edition-grasset.fr/auteurs/sa.htm), born and raised in Beijing, wrote
an award winning first novel in French after studying the language for a couple of years... I
think...



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A friend of mine was born in Beijing of two...

A friend of mine was born in Beijing of two European parents 20+ years ago, and grew up here. I
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Well, what's the difference between wu and wo? ...

Well, what's the difference between wu and wo? They both start with the same strong puckering but
the puckering changes in wo. If wu becomes u, is wo then uo?

The bottom line is that roman...



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It sort-of rhymes with "new" and...

It sort-of rhymes with "new" and "too" but you have to strongly pucker your lips. You aren't
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Yes, 无 is second tone, but 屋 is first, 五 is third...

Yes, 无 is second tone, but 屋 is first, 五 is third and 务 is fourth, among just a few wus.



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Why do caucasians love English?

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Re: Why do caucasians love English?

This comparison doesn't look very logical to me. Mandarin is the only official language for all
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Re: New Antiwave Podcast 求求你，看电视吧

对于大多数中国国民,电视比网络普及率高的多.
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If you click on the settings button, one of the options will be to switch to 繁体字.

Instead of using the shift-key, you might want to use the keyboard shortcut ctrl-space instead.
This will swap between Chinese and English input methods.



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I used to use Windows IME, but I noticed that it does not pick words correctly and that it lags
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Regarding Google IME, there seems to be only two options they give you for switching between
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There was a recipe for pork in the Rites of Zhou (周禮/周礼) (compiled around in 2nd century
B.C. according to modern scholars).

1. Kill a pig or a ram. Open its belly, take out the insides, and clean out the blood.
2. Fill its belly with dates.
3. Wrap it with reeds, and cover the outside of the reeds with clay.
4. Put 3 into the open fire until the clay is dried.
5. When the clay is dried, take out the outer shell. Then use hand to remove its fur.
6. Make a dry paste with rice flour, and cover it with the rice paste.
7. Put 6 into warm oil to lightly fry it. The oil must cover the pig (or ram).
8. Put the fried pig (or ram) in a ding3 鼎. Put the ding in a great pot, and put water in the
pot. The water must not go over the ding.
9. Use fire (probably small fire) to cook 8 for 3 days and 3 nights.
10. Season it with vinegar (醯 xi) and meat sauce (醢 hai3) once it was done.

Anyone want to try the recipe?



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OracleBone -

Hehe, only noblemans were permited to cook pork in that way at that time, the poor people even
have no chance to eat pork.

Noblemans use these complicated manners as a weapon to defend their privileges from the ordinary
people.










trufflepig -

curses, i only just threw out my Ding.










cdn_in_bj -

I wouldn't mind trying the results - I've been dying to have 烤全羊!

Well, it's close enough to a ram, right?










heifeng -

I'm pretty sure you are missing a key part of the recipe. You will likely have to specify the
optimal weight of the pig. Otherwise you are just asking for uneven cooking and trichnosis or
something!










trufflepig -

i'd be up for making this the first of an annual rites of zhou cook off, could
be fun.
Take a weekend in dec, choose a place somewhere north south west whatever, get ourselves some
outback, a pig and some reeds (and some bottles of whiskey) some tents, a bonfire..... could be
good. any takers?










gougou -



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you are just asking for uneven cooking

After 3 days and 3 nights, I'd be surprised if there was any part of the pig still uncooked. Heck,
you could roast an elephant in that time...










gougou -



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could be good. any takers?

I'm in. And hey, look, I found a pig already. Mmh, truffle sounds even better than dates!










heifeng -

hehe...a trufflepig does sound quite appetizing....
actually this recipe reminds me of the south american cooking techniques for guinea pigs....maybe
a mini version hehe










trufflepig -

fine me this year then, but you wait till next years Rites of Eastern Jin cook off, when its 3
days and 3 nights of 狗狗肉












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