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Similarly, when I first arrived in China last year for a year abroad and finally mastered how to say “hello,” “how are you?” and “goodbye” in Mandarin, all the Chinese people I met were surprised and impressed at my “mastery” of their language. Later, when I could hold my own in a conversation, some of them even refused to believe that I was from...
...illustrate this point, Qiu set the mood for his lecture-entitled "Invisibility: Mixed-media Art" and delivered in Mandarin-by playing a silent video of himself painting calligraphy, with a twist. Instead of watching Qiu write the characters, the viewer instead watched as his hand methodically erased each character from a sheet covered with calligraphy...
...public high school, CoCo returned to Asia. Though she lacked formal training in Chinese-language singing (she speaks Cantonese at home), she won second place in Hong Kong's annual New Talent Singing Contest. A minor Taiwan label gave her a recording contract and, after a fast course in Mandarin (the lingua franca of the recording industry in Taiwan, China and smaller markets in Singapore and Malaysia), she recorded a song that became a hit in Taiwan's karaoke bars. Within six months she had churned out two albums. "It was so hard on me. I got sick, didn...
Work these days involves a couple of very different projects. In mid-year, she plans to release a CD in Mandarin for her core fans and is determined to make it a great album. "I'm writing some of the material myself," she says. "I've been offered so many songs, but we're only going to record three of this batch because I gotta be pickier. Gotta be strict with this album." She wags her finger self-admonishingly, still disappointed with the quality of some of the assembly-line recordings she made in the past...
...less threatening policy toward Taiwan; Bush still might sell Aegis air-defense radar to the island. If he does, "relations with the U.S. could worsen permanently, and Jiang will lose the greatest pillar of his legitimacy," says an Asian diplomat in Beijing. Last month China dispatched foreign policy mandarin Qian Qichen to Washington to patch up relations; Bush chose to receive Japan's doomed Prime Minister first, underscoring Tokyo's privileged position. "I'm frustrated," says a Chinese foreign policy adviser criticized by leaders for being too pro-U.S. "China might pay a price, but the Bush Administration needs...