【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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