Chinese Daily Photos, 2011 to 2019!
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PeoplesPoster
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If the person who's getting the tattoo likes it who are we to judge.
In4ser
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You are misinterpreting my post, I'm NOT saying one should abandon one's cultural identity, but one must be ready to replace aspects of it and adopt change in order for one to progress. Wearing the Hanfu or having feng shui are all very nice and add character to one identity but matter very little in global relevance and power in the modern age. Imagine if everyone still wore pocketless w/ instrusive sleeves robes or looked to geomancy to make business decisions? If following old Chinese beliefs and value is what makes one Chinese then one could say Korea and Japan are more Chinese than Mainland China itself. Yet, China is not what it was 100 years ago and it will never be it again (for better or worse) and lest China wants to follow Japan choosing the path of pride (in being Japanese) and willfully walking the path down obscurity and decline rather than embrace change to its current model by having immigration and recognizing technological changes (*cough* Sony *cough*) and the new geo-political environment (e.g. the rise of China).
China can always create new traditions and icons for others to follow...it wasn't too long ago (historically) that Europe thought of the US as backward and uncivilized (about little over 100 years ago) and Americans were asking themselves where is our Shakespeare or Mozart? Well...now look at the US the most well known country in the world b/c everything it created is relevant NOW. The internet, modern music, big software and hardware companies like google and yet look now to Greece, Rome or even Egypt and basking in with their past greatness are barely any more than popular tourist attraction; economical and politically weak and unimportant individually.
Ethno-centricism is what stopped China from advancing when it achieved technological advantage over other civilizations. China was unwilling to learn or adopt knowledge or techniques from others and therefore stagnated. Europe went through a similar crisis after the fall of Rome culminating into Dark Ages, largely cut off from the rest of the world. It wasn't until the Crusades and fall of Constantinople that foreign ideas and expertise start flow into Europe and it was enter into the Renaissance and eventually innovate and progress beyond Asia and the Middle East.
Korea and Japan were able to modernize earlier for numerous factors but one of them was willingness to learn. Korea and Japan had for hundreds of years adopted Chinese customs and traditions into their own so when the West arrived into the Asia they were more readily able and willing to integrate other influences AND maintain their own culture identity.
China on the other hand an ongoing identity crisis. Modern China was born on the ashes of old Imperial order and while I disagree with Mao's methods and its execution, it was nonetheless necessary because of the cultural and social resistance built in to the Chinese of being the middle kingdom and being culturally superior to foreign barbarians. Especially since the world has shrink with globalization and technological advancement, China needs to be on the forefront of changes and new ideas by being willing to adapt and learn from others.
While I do lament the moral and ethnical void left by destruction of "Rule of Virtue", it is also an opportunity for China to supersede itself and start over...be something new. I think that is what most Chinese are wrestling with "what does it mean to be Chinese" and to do that one must reconcile the present and future with the past and that means moving past it by respecting and cherishing it but not idolizing it.
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SteelBird
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This is crazy! 5 million RMB or nearly 1 million US$ to repair that Lamborghini? I bet the driver of the Lamb was over speed. If he were in a Toyota, he might need a coffin now. Lot of excuses after the accident.
SteelBird
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This video is from last year; however, since it's the year of horse, let have some horse style dance.
林志玲 is a really beautiful lady. Though she had 10cm high heel shoes, she's taller than the two guys.
[video=youtube;FUI7hJqxvcY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUI7hJqxvcY[/video]
林志玲 is a really beautiful lady. Though she had 10cm high heel shoes, she's taller than the two guys.
[video=youtube;FUI7hJqxvcY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUI7hJqxvcY[/video]
SteelBird
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Garbage is one of the ugliest side of Phnom Penh. The Municipal of Phnom Penh does not have sanitation agent of their own. Instead, they subcontract it to a company called Cintri to collect and treat garbage. It's been since the CNY that Cintri workers go striking demand more payment. Garbage are left like that for almost a week now. There is a pile of garbage similar to the photo every 50 meters along the street to my office!
Equation
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Garbage is one of the ugliest side of Phnom Penh. The Municipal of Phnom Penh does not have sanitation agent of their own. Instead, they subcontract it to a company called Cintri to collect and treat garbage. It's been since the CNY that Cintri workers go striking demand more payment. Garbage are left like that for almost a week now. There is a pile of garbage similar to the photo every 50 meters along the street to my office!
Dig a big hole in some safe place and put the garbage there, add some gasoline, and LIGHT it up! Burn babe burn!
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