【i】Storyville: The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World

Hi

It's Cindy again.
There are a new four-part series programme on BBC 4, called ' Storyville: The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World ' which is on Tuesday night, 22.00.
You can find the first part on BBC iPlayer, and watch the rest of them on TV in the following 3 weeks.
It's in Chinese Mandarin with English subtitle, so it will be good for listening practice.
Don't worry if you can't understand some phrases as they talk in a fast pace.
However, that's the pace we local people talk to each other.
It's a restaurant based in Hunan, so naturally people in the programme have Hunan accents.
Don't worry, Hunan accent is not bad at all.
Most of you might not tell the difference!

As some of you knew already, eating in China is a big matter.
It's socializing, not only having meals.
Chinese people say dining is the most important thing in the world.
Dining for Chinese people is like drinking for British.
It presents people's believing, customs,culture, history and everything else!
So you will see some strange things/dishes in this programme...
Don't be surprised!
Not every Chinese people eats everything you see in this programme!

Through this series, you will see Chinese way management/doing business.
How they manage people, how hard they work and how they appreciate their people network.

Again, you are all welcome to share your thought with me.
And if you do not want to receive newsletters from me, please let me know.

Best regards

Cindy

【i】Wild China-Tibet & Heart of the Dragon

Hi everyone

It's Cindy again.
How was everyone's bank holiday?
Weather wasn't that great but it's still good to have a break to do something you want to do.

I watched all the 'Wild China' programmes on BBC iPlayer on my holiday weekend.
They were great!
So far, they have 'Shangri-La', 'Tibet', and 'Heart of the Dragon' online.
'Shangri-La' will remain online for another 2 days
So if you want to watch it, remember to watch it online or download it to your computer.
You can keep the progremme up to 30 days and watch them off line anytime.
'Tibet' and 'Heart of Dragon' will remain online for 4 days more.
There places they introduce are very famous for Chinese people as well.
They don't only attract foreigners but also Chinese visitors.
Shangri-La is known as 'Paradise', Tibet is known as 'Roof of the world', and Gui Zhou where 'Heart of China' is filmed is famous of the stalactite caves.
Chinese people say 'Gui Lin shan shui jia tianxia', which means the mountains and water in Gui Lin are the best in China.
In the programmes, they are still focused on nature but also mentioned some culture and customs as human beings always have to adopt themselves to the nature surroundings.
If you are planning to go traveling in China, or you did it already, you will surely enjoy the series.
They are also good reference for your further traveling in China.

Here's the website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/?filter=category%3A200059&order=aztitle%3Aalphabetical&start=2&scope=iplayercategories

Enjoy!

Just before I go, I want to say thank you to some of your positive replies.
Your encouragement will keep me going.
Also thanks for all the useful links you email me.
I will find time to visit them and share them with you on my newsletter/blog.

All the best

Cindy

【i】 Wild China

Wild China is a 6 serious programme on BBC2 every Sunday night.
Shangri-La will be repeated next Saturday 24th May at 5:00pm on BBC2.
The next one will be Tibet showing next Sunday 25th May at 9:15pm on BBC 2.
More details please check
http://tvguide.aol.co.uk/tv-search?tvgSearchPhrase=wild+china&action=Go

Also, lots of you know the sever earthquake in China.
If you would like to help, there's something you can do.
https://www.oxfam.org.hk/public/donate/donate?donate_id=45

Thank you.

【i】 Shangri-La 人间仙境-香格里拉

Dear all

It's Cindy again.
I found an interesting programme on BBC iplayer tonight, and want to share it with you.
It's called 'Wild China', filming in South west area, YunNan, in China.
It has a world known name, Shangri-La, which means 'Paradise'.
This 60-minutes-long programme is introducing the nature life in YunNan including magnificent landscapes, rare plants and animals.
The programme will be on the website for 5 days.
If you are interested in this area in China, you will find this programme very enjoyable.

Here is the link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00brvjx.shtml?src=ip_potpw

Again, if you don't want to receive my email re to information sharing, please let me know.

Enjoy the programme, and wish you a very nice week.


Best Regards

Cindy Shih

【i】Chinese Mandarin News Latter-May

Hi everyone

It's Cindy Shih saying hello to you all.
I have been thinking about doing news letter thing to share some information about Chinese Mandarin or China to you all for a while.
But I only put this thought into action now as I am quite busy recently.
Sorry to repeat myself if you got the information from me already.

If any of you doesn't want to receive my email re to this content, please let me know.
I will take you off from the email list.
Also please forgive my English, as my mother tongue is Chinese Mandarin and some of my sentences might not make any sense for you.

The first thing I want to share is about National Geographic Magazine.
The May issue is a special issue talking about China, with lots of impressive photos and some interesting stories talking about the rapidly changing China.
I haven't got time to finish my magazine yet, but certainly it is a very good material if you want to understand what's going on in China now.
Also I find it helpful if you want to understand 'Chinese way thinking'.
Here is the website which you can flick through and read some of the features.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

The second thing I want to share is probably too late to mention.
On BBC4 there was a serious of programme talking about 'Chinese Schools'.
I found them on BBC iPlayer and only watched 3 serious of them.
It was interesting and quite familiar for me to see all students working so hard for their exams.
I used to be one of them and before getting into university I didn't have my own leisure life.
You can fine out some articles talking about education system in China on Open University website.
http://www.open2.net/chineseschool/index.html

The last thing I would like to share is about the film, Kundun, I watched last weekend.
I know some of you are very interested in the relationship between China and Tibet.
The film is talking about the 14th Dalai Lama.
It's a bit like biography of Dalai Lama's childhood.
It was an amazing film for me and I found it so touched when seeing Tibetan people looking for religious freedom.
This film helps to find out the difference between Chinese and Tibetan culture.
I personally appreciated this film a lot as I could imagine how difficult is would be making a film like this in Tibet.
Also the Tibetan culture is so fascinating for me in this film.
If you are interested in it, there is the website I found on google.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundun

I got this DVD from fopp at the bottom of Park St, and it cost me less than a fiver.
You are welcome to borrow it form me but please remember to return it back as I like it a lot and might want to watch it again.

Thanks for your patience reading this email.
Please feel free to email me for any feedback or anything you would like to share with me.
If you don't want to receive this email, please let me know.

Wish all of you a very nice weekend.
Zhu nimen zhoumo yukuai.

Cindy Shih
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这是我第一次发news letter
用英文写的还是无法和用中文写的比
我的母语是汉语
太多意思用英文是无法顺畅表达的
但是我很努力了
希望再接再厉
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