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Posted on: 中国崛起
February 3, 2009 at 3:16 PMHarry Potter has similar themes to star trek. Voldamort represents not only evil but slavery to dogmatism and thought control. Professor Umbrigde tried to control the students' access to the truth that Voldamort had returned. Her methods were similar to repressive regimes everywhere. Even so, Harry Potter is widely read in China by children. Star trek doesn't just address the cold war period. It addressed many themes-homosexuality, tolerance, genecide, interference in primitive cultures. The Captains were frequently faced with difficult nuanced moral decisions. The first interracial kiss occurred on star trek-not a cold war theme but purely an American one.
Posted on: 中国崛起
February 3, 2009 at 12:57 PMChina needs an introduction to Star Trek the TV shows. Although I have looked for star trek novels in Chinese, I have never found them. The Chinese need a little nuance to their nationalism. Star Trek has encouraged many great thinkers and scientists-Stephen Hawkings for one is a great fan. I could be wrong (i don't live there, so help me with this if i'm wrong), but why hasn't star trek the tv show ever made an appearence on tv in China?
Posted on: Seeing off an Old Friend 渭城曲
January 27, 2009 at 2:28 PMWhat did Elvis think of this poem? :)
Great lesson.
Posted on: Farewell, Son 游子吟
January 26, 2009 at 11:42 PMPete,
You have a great talent to make poetry accessible to everyone. What a great idea for a new show! You single handedly created a new and unique way to look at Chinese poetry. This could also be futher expanded to teach great works of literature. Cpod barely scratched the surface of 红楼梦. I am totally drawn to 书面语小说 and poetry when before I wasn't。Thanks for opening the door.
邰喜儿
Posted on: Lost in the Desert
January 10, 2009 at 6:27 PMI love my besta electronic dictionary. check out besta.com
It does everything including teaching character stroke order. Mine is besta 9500.
Posted on: 老上海印象
November 30, 2008 at 2:44 PM我就是1982去了上海。再也没有机会回去。当时的中国完全不一样。我抵达了上海的极小的飞机场的时候， 飞机场被农民围住了。听说现代的上海科技先进，大楼现代化。改天应该回上海去看看。现在我去中国的时候都是去广西北海。
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 5: Wang Tries to Excel at the Office
November 17, 2008 at 2:18 PM赵建国是谁？
Posted on: The Big Deal about Shenzhou 7
November 15, 2008 at 2:58 PM星际旅行远远比星际大战好！
Posted on: Buying a Plasma TV
November 5, 2008 at 5:33 PMChinesepod应该有一个关于obama的课程。Obama中文怎么说？
Posted on: Eating Dead Flesh 猪吃死人肉
February 17, 2009 at 1:32 PMI like the dark poems deep with meaning. Way to go.
Without you Pete, Chinese poetry is out of reach for me because here in Oklahoma I don't have a teacher of advanced Chinese. I finished reading all 7 Harry Potter books in Chinese and have learned a lot of Chinese, but no culture. (Stephen Krashen said to read what you would read normally to improve your foreign language skills. He was right big time.) Thanks again.