Learn mandarin - Shakespeare with a Korean Twist

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Shakespeare with a Korean Twist

( 2008-06-23 )

Korea's famous Sadari Movement Laboratory brings a dynamic piece of theatrical drama to Beijing with their stripped-down interpretation of Georg Buchner's Woyzeck at the Chaoyang Nine Theaters from July 9 to 11.

The play is based on the true story of a poor German soldier, who was driven to madness by inhuman military murders and discipline.

Founded in 1999, Sadari is one of Korea's best-known young theater companies. The production has been invited to tour all over the world and was a sold-out success at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won the Herald Angel and Total Theatre Award.

Korean Week will wrap up with Theater Moollee's Lady Macbeth at the Oriental Avant-garde Theater from July 11 to 13. This experimental Lady Macbeth is a thorough rewrite of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Theater Moollee, founded by director and playwright Tae-Sook Han in 1997, is an experimental theater group. It is known within the international theatre community for its controversial works.

By Chen Jie

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Learn Chinese - When to Use Emergency Phone Numbers 110, 119, and 122

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When to Use Emergency Phone Numbers 110, 119, and 122

( 2008-06-27 )

Q: When to use emergency phone numbers 110, 119, and 122

A: 110 is for emergency services, while 119 is for the fire department and 122 for traffic accident reports. These three 24-hour lines are all access routes to the public security organ, receiving public emergency calls.

When life or property is threatened, or there occurs an urgent and sudden event that the public is unable to settle, 110 should be called to raise the alarm and seek help. If a fire has started, 119 should be called, and if a traffic accident happens, 122 should be called, allowing the public
security organ to dispatch special personnel to the site in time.

After being put through 110, you will firstly hear such a prompt in both Chinese and English: "Hello, here is 110 alarm service", then an operator will hear your case. Please answer the questions according to the requirements of the operator, such as your name, position and contact ways and so on
as well as the basic information of the relevant case. Generally, you should remain at the position where you give the alarm to wait for policemen and meet them as soon as they arrive. Please keep the site untouched so that the policemen can acquire evidence at the site. If you dial 110 by
mistake, please hang up immediately.

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Chinese Online Class - List of Exhibits (Chinese and English)

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Chinese language - The King of Pop Art - Andy Warhol Exhibition

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Andy Warhol

Campbell's soup II,1969

The post World War II period saw the return of modernism to the mainstream art world. Europe was coming back to life from the ruins of war; America, on the other hand, retained its vigor and brought Europe under the spell of Abstract Expressionism with the help of its economic and political power.
Abstract and color-field art later swept the world with its extreme representation of modernist dogmas, cementing the final glory of modernism.

Andy Warhol

Shoes,1980

At that time, the Big Apple took Paris’s place as the world’s art capital. Late-modernism dominated high art during the period between 1950 to the beginning of 1970s. The unconventional Pop Art style, although widely exhibited, seldom won applause from mainstream Rauschenberg and Edward
Kienholz were also considered Pop artists. Using the magic wand of Pop Art, New Dada artists pushed the boundaries of art appreciation and found new sources of inspiration of artistic creation. The Pop artists of the 1960s elevated the “low” arts of the mass to a much-revered status with the
help of mass communication, and the leader of this Pop Art movement was the master, Andy Warhol.

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Butterflies,circa,1956

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Speak Chinese - "Chubby Women" Exhibited in Paris

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"Chubby Women" Exhibited in Paris

The solo exhibition of China’s famous sculptor Xu Hongfei opened in Paris on February 18, 2008. The exhibition will last for one month. The exhibit includes 26 pieces of the recent “Chubby Women” sculpture series by Xu Hongfei.

Before Xu left for Paris, Huang Yongyu, the Chinese painting guru, wrote an interesting forward for the coming exhibition: “People say women are like the sun to men, and now Xu Hongfei is leaving for Paris with his chubby suns.”

Riding bicycles, scratching itch, walking with a dog, strolling in a breeze… the 26 chubby women Xu sculpted are all charming and varied in stance, and are attracting large audiences. One of the largest works Embracing Breeze, two meters wide and one meter high, features a sculpted woman riding
a real bicycle.

Xu Hongfei was born in Guangdong in 1963 and graduated from the Quangzhou Art Institute with a major in Sculpture in 1990. He is currently the Vice chancellor of Guangzhou Sculpture institute.

Xu Hongfei believes that “art should be fun and amusing.” He combined traditional and contemporary spirit into a new series of sculptures with “Chubby Women.” He believes each person has the right to enjoy one’s body and be self-confident. Xu enjoys expressing the beauty and suppleness
of fat and admires the energy of weight.

By Dong Jirong

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Chinese Speaking - Chinese Ancient Statues, Artifacts on Show in Florence

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Chinese Ancient Statues, Artifacts on Show in Florence

The show ends with recently discovered frescoes and paintings including a mural depicting a fiery central Asian horse found in the tomb of Wei, one of the wives of the Emperor Taizong (599-649 AD).

The exhibition, "China, at The Court Of The Emperors, Never-Before-Seen Masterpieces From Han Tradition To Tang Elegance(25-907 AD)," runs until June 8.

Editor:Wang Nan

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Chinese Online Class - 'Charm of China' Tours Western World

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Dance opera ''A Dream of Red Mansions''

Dance opera ''A Dream of Red Mansions''

One 83-member performing arts group has already toured Toronto, Canada and New York, United States on February 5, and 8-9, delivering the grand dance opera: A Dream of Red Mansions, adapted from the classic Chinese novel.

On February 11, 14, and 16, a 47-member troupe is heading to France and Germany to take a modern Peking opera version of the English classical play Hamlet, directed by famous Chinese opera director Shi Yukun, on stage.

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