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hiewhongliang
Posted on: Negotiating with a Taobao Merchant
April 10, 2012 at 3:48 PMIt was recommended from another good read: "One Couple Two Cultures: 81 Western-Chinese Couples Talk About Love and Marriage" by Dan Waters. My wife does psychology research on Chinese-Western couple relationships. We collect books like these. :-)
Posted on: 代客扫墓
April 10, 2012 at 7:24 AM目前城市墓地价格炒的这么高，身后事不早已经是个买卖了吗？现在生活成本高的要死，可是死也死不起！哎！
农村还好，我的太公过百年前离开广东小村去马来西亚，这么多年一代又一代村里的同乡还是继续维护我太太公的坟墓，直到近几年我们回乡找回老家才发现。传统思想真的是和“摩登”思想不一样，充满人情......
Posted on: Negotiating with a Taobao Merchant
April 10, 2012 at 6:18 AMSearching for a book on taobao this morning... aliwawa transcipt below... threw in a question about what seller meant by 亲 at the end, haha!
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hlhiew(2012-04-10 13:01:41):
嗨，《我愿意--娶个老外做老婆》有货吗？
泥巴土豆:3(2012-04-10 13:02:26):
抱歉，暂没有哦
hlhiew(2012-04-10 13:03:06):
知道什么时候有吗？
泥巴土豆:3(2012-04-10 13:03:35):
现在不确定哦
hlhiew(2012-04-10 13:04:04):
好呗，谢啦！
刚才没问：书是正版的吧
泥巴土豆:3(2012-04-10 13:21:30):
现在没有货哦
hlhiew(2012-04-10 13:22:51):
知道，可是你卖的书全是正版或复版也有？
泥巴土豆:3(2012-04-10 13:24:39):
亲，店里的书都是正版的
hlhiew(2012-04-10 13:25:32):
谢啦。
hlhiew(2012-04-10 13:25:54):
我国外来的～“亲”是什么意思呀？
泥巴土豆:3(2012-04-10 13:26:45):
亲爱的顾客朋友
hlhiew(2012-04-10 13:27:04):
喔，明白了
Posted on: Stories of Chinese Emperors
April 8, 2012 at 3:42 PMYongle may have constructed the Forbidden City and sent sea expeditions to explore the world, BUT surely that can't compare to the fame from drunken suffocation by pillow or having a harem of 3000... :-)
Posted on: 投资移民
April 8, 2012 at 3:07 PMMy comment above probably is mixing the issue of residency and the issue of citizenship, which are separate.
Anyway, on the issue of how many foreign migrants there are, my company was considering whether to cater to expat ageing health requirements in Shanghai so we recently did some brief research into the population here. Besides finding out that old expats with health needs don't stay in China, we also found that although in certain districts like Jinqiao and French Concessions there is a high concentration of foreigners, overall the numbers are still too small to warrant attention. They do however hold a lot of the money!
Posted on: 投资移民
April 7, 2012 at 2:19 AMProblem with immigrating to China is that you have to give up your home country's citizenship, along with all the privileges and opportunities that goes with it. China does not recognise dual citizenship. My home country of Malaysia is the same.
Posted on: The Correct Usage of Correct
April 7, 2012 at 1:41 AMOne word I've found very useful for face-saving situations is 调整 （tiáo zhěng) .
Eg. 我帮你调整一下你的文件 （wǒ bāng nǐ tiáo zhěng yī xià nǐ de wén jiàn）I'll help you do a bit of adjustments on your document.
Eg. 你的发言稿需要调整 (nǐ de fā yán gǎo xū yào tiáo zhěng) The draft of your speech needs some adjustments.
My staff in Shanghai says that a lot to me, which I have learnt is the face-saving way for them to say my language needs serious corrections! :-)
Posted on: Help with the Baby
April 4, 2011 at 9:26 AMAre there companies and agencies that manages 月嫂's, or is it like 保姆 and 阿姨's where you hire the people direct? Wondering if the higher specialisation involves different management.
Posted on: Help with the Baby
April 4, 2011 at 9:19 AMExtended family is essential I think. There's research on this thing called "Grandmother hypothesis" ("祖母假说") that tries explain why humans live so long pass reproductive-fertile periods when conventional evolutionary theory says we should not. To put it simplistically, it is because as a species we need our grandmothers around to help mothers take care of daughters.
Personally, I think grandmothers are essential because they get you ice cream when mummy will not! :-)
Posted on: 代客扫墓
April 11, 2012 at 6:07 AM”经过一百年有多“(more than a hundred years ago)的意思。
如果要用“过”表达去逝，应该用”过世“。
我们粤语口语也常用”过身“表达去逝，可是不清楚正规普通话可不可以这么说，有谁知道吗？
如果对“过”用法有感兴趣，可以听听Cpod一课：http://chinesepod.com/lessons/过guo