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2006-12-22 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by .com 2006-12-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Attention has focused on the quantity of bare flesh in Curse of the Golden Flower, which took 96m yuan (£6.3m) in its first weekend.

"It caters to Western tastes while ignoring our own country's sentiments."

"What I remember is not the fighting scenes or the acting, but the shiny white flesh."

Har har! I love watching societies dealing with cognitive dissonance! These statements are mutually exclusive. Getting all three of these statements to live together is going to be impossible. More evidence that the Chinese are officially starting to get it! :-)

Posted by gorb 2006-12-22 01:49|| 2006-12-22 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 I knew there was a reason for the great number of Chinese in the world.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-22 02:05|| 2006-12-22 02:05|| Front Page Top

#3 AH9418: I knew there was a reason for the great number of Chinese in the world.

China is an empire with twice the land area of Western Europe. Of course there's a lot of people there. The primary* difference between Europe and China is that China has been civilized a lot longer - meaning that agricultural technology was more advanced, for a long time - thus allowing it to support larger populations.

* The other difference is that China is a unified political entity, whereas Europe is not. But the similarity lies in the fact that China probably has more distinct languages (which the Chinese call dialects, but are mutually incomprehensible) than Europe.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-12-22 06:49|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-12-22 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 China's population at the end of the 18th century was 400m. The US population at that point was just over 5m. Today, China's population is 1.2b and increase of 3x from 200 years ago. The US population is 60x from where it was 200 years ago. Which country has had the population boom? At the end of the 18th century, the UK population was about 11m. Today, it is about 60m, or roughly 5x what it was back then, despite the emigration of huge numbers of Britons to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, all former Crown Colonies. Tell me again about the population boom.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-12-22 07:03|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-12-22 07:03|| Front Page Top

#5 so why don't we all have bootleg dvds of this flick?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-12-22 07:51|| 2006-12-22 07:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Give Kimmie time, Frank ...

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-12-22 08:37|| 2006-12-22 08:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Chinas state news service Xinhua is known in the expat community as Sin Who? It's the best newspaper for getting a little salacious content in China. And best of all it's English version is on the net.

Posted by tipper 2006-12-22 10:36|| 2006-12-22 10:36|| Front Page Top