China

[ploup]

I'm suppose to go to Shanghai this summer to visit a friend and i was wondering what's nice to visit there or any other place not too far... Hope Chinese fans will help ( non-chinese are also allowed ) Thanks Edited January 27, 2005 at 01:04 AM by Koolan

[AllCeline]

Wow! I'd love to go to China. Sandly, I've never been there, so I can't you out on that one. Sorry

[Bellamy]

Shanghai is a very modern city. if you really want to see something have country feeling of China, you need to go to small town around Shanghai.

Ronin can give you some advices.

[ploup]

Shanghai is a very modern city. if you really want to see something have country feeling of China, you need to go to small town around Shanghai.

Ronin can give you some advices.

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Thanks for the advice

[Bellamy]

BTW, come to Beijing or Xi'an if you want to see the history of China.

 

Shanghai feeling is very alike to Paris, petty bourgeoisie feeling, but not as historical as Paris.

[Michael]

Oh yes you are very lucky to visit this place, it would be so beautiful.

[Bellamy]

Here're some photos of Shanghai :

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara01.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara02.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara03.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara04.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara05.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara06.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara07.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara08.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara09.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara10.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara11.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara12.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara13.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara14.jpg

 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nm6f-nkmc/shan-gara15.jpg

[ploup]

Thanks for the pics it looks really nice! Is Beijing for away from Shanghai?i still haven't had the time to check all those stuff...

[Bellamy]

Thanks for the pics  it looks really nice! Is Beijing for away from Shanghai?i still haven't had the time to check all those stuff...

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it's about 1200-1300 Kilometers away. 12 hours by train. 2-3 hours by plane.

[Bellamy]

Beijing Photo Album 1 Today's Beijing:

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/birdview.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/building1.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/crossroad.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/crowd.jpg

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/evening.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/greathall.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/halldining.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/huabiao.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/redflag.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/skyscrapers1.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/tiananmen1.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/tiananmen2.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/tower.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/traffic.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/beijingtoday/westrailstation.JPG

[Bellamy]

Beijing Photo Album 2 The Forbidden City:

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/belltower.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/birdview.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/bronzelion.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/crane.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/forbiddencity1.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/forbiddencity2.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/gate2.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/regality.jpg

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/sculpture1.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/sculpture2.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/stonelion.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/theking.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/turtle.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/wall.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/forbiddencity/wugate.JPG

[Bellamy]

Beijing Photo Album 3 The Great Wall of China:

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/1.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/2.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/3.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/4.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/5.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/6.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/7.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/8.jpg

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/9.jpg

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/10.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/11.jpg

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/12.jpg

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/13.jpg

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/14.jpg

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/Greatwall/15.jpg

[Bellamy]

Beijing Photo Album 4 The Historic Sites in Beijing:

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/bridge.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/bronzecow.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/huiyinbi.jpg

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/lake.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/lougoubridge.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/mingtomb.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/mingtomb2.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/sacredroad.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/northsea-park.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/spiritraod.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/stoneofficer.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/stoneship.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/templeofheaven.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/tomb3.JPG

 

http://www.beijinghighlights.com/photos/historicrelics/zijinshan.JPG

[RONIN]

hey,ploup~~~

 

welcome to shanghai~~!

 

 

truely,it's modern and atractive~and also beautiful

 

ploup,which kind of place you wanna go~just tell me and i can give you some info.

Edited January 27, 2005 at 03:23 PM by RONIN

[Michael]

Oh my god!!! I didn't think it is like this, very nice!!! even it is good to visit an old place for the history and feel emotions because of this history

[Koolan]

Shanghai is so modern and beautiful. It even looks better than New York, I have to admit. Is that the restaurant at the top of the tower? I think I'll visit Beijiing for the 2008 Olympic games

[GiftedCeline]

Wow, hope you have a fun time in China and beautiful pics

[ploup]

Thanks for the pics  it looks really nice! Is Beijing for away from Shanghai?i still haven't had the time to check all those stuff...

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it's about 1200-1300 Kilometers away. 12 hours by train. 2-3 hours by plane.

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Ok thanks for the info and the pics

[nano]

I had a chance to go Shanghai...it's somekind of student exchange..I really thought about going but I was too slow.... I was too late...deadline was over ....2 persons on my class are going to Shanghai and 2 are going somewhere in China..I don't remember the city

[ploup]

hey,ploup~~~

 

welcome to shanghai~~!

 

 

truely,it's modern and atractive~and also beautiful

 

ploup,which kind of place you wanna go~just tell me and i can give you some info.

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Thanks Ronin, well i haven't decided yet what i really wanna see, but i sure let you know

[.ItOnlyHurtsWhenIBreathe.]

I think China would be a great place to visit. The history is remarkable. I.E.- Great wall of china. I remember, last spring break I met this little chinese boy(LEVI) at LAX ( Los Angeles Airport) he was about 4 and I swear to you...he was the cutest thing I have ever seen. I just wanted to pinch his little cheeks. His adoption mother gave me this little pamplet that described his past and how she became his mother--it was truly touching. Quick summary *lol*--His biological parents and him were in a fire...he lost his left arm and his face was a little burnt, his parents thought he was going to die..dressed up him in beautiful burial clothes and left him to die...the lady had found him and took him to the hospital and they were sure he was going to die in an hour or so...but hours past and all of sudden he was perfectly fine. Now,that's truly a MIRACLE baby I'm such a sob!

[Bellamy]

Here's a brief introduction to the Chinese language. Chinese language have very deep influence to the culture of East Asia contries. I wonder if some of you want to learn Chinese language? but it's very very hard to learn.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Zhongwen.png

 

The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: Hànyu, Huáyu, or Zhōngwén) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.

 

Although Chinese is often regarded as a single language, regional variations in dialect, grammar and vocabulary are comparable to those of Romance languages. However, all of the spoken varieties of Chinese share a common formal written language, Vernacular Chinese, written using a nearly identical set of Chinese characters.

 

About one-fifth of the world speaks some forms of Chinese as its native language, making it the language with the most native speakers. The Chinese language, spoken in the form of Standard Mandarin, is the official language of the People's Republic of China in mainland China and Taiwan, as well as one of four official languages of Singapore, and one of six official languages of the United Nations. Spoken in the form of Standard Cantonese, Chinese is one of the two official languages of Hong Kong (together with English) and of Macao (together with Portuguese).

 

The terms and concepts used by Chinese to think about language are different from those used in the West, partly because of the unifying effects of the Chinese characters used in writing, and partly because of differences in the political and social development of China in comparison with Europe. Whereas after the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe fragmented into small nation-states, the identities of which were often defined by language, China was able to preserve cultural and political unity through the same period, and maintained a common written standard throughout its entire history, despite the fact that its actual diversity in spoken language has always been comparable to Europe. As a result, Chinese (unlike Westerners) make a sharp distinction between Written language (wen/文) and Spoken language (yu/語). The concept of a distinct and unified combination of both written and spoken forms of language is much less strong in Chinese than in the West. One uniform script and written standard continues to be used for all the spoken varieties of Chinese.

 

Spoken Chinese is a tonal language related to Tibetan and Burmese, but genetically unrelated to other neighbouring languages, such as Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, and Japanese. However, these languages were strongly influenced by Chinese in the course of history, linguistically and also extralinguistically. Korean and Japanese both have writing systems employing Chinese characters, which are called Hanja and Kanji, respectively.

 

In North Korea, Hanja has been completely discontinued and Hangul is the sole way to express their language, while in South Korea, Hanja is used as a form of bold face. Japan has thought of abandoning the use of Chinese characters since the 20th century, but Chinese characters are deeply rooted in Japanese culture and have not been abolished. Vietnamese also generally stopped the use of Chinese characters but Chinese loanwords can still easily be seen in the Vietnamese modern phonetic alphabet.

[ploup]

well my mum got me a book to learn some words

Thanks for the article

[Fanny!]

OMG it just looks awesome !!!

[celine_rules]

I wish I could help I've been to China but it was in the southeastern area, near a city called Guilin

[Bellamy]

I wish I could help I've been to China but it was in the southeastern area, near a city called Guilin

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Guilin is one of the most beautiful place in China.

[sge]

Welcome to China!

 

欢迎到中国来!

[powerpuffceline]

I hope you can have a good time in China!I 'm chinese too!

[tativale]

Here's a brief introduction to the Chinese language. Chinese language have very deep influence to the culture of East Asia contries.  I wonder if some of you want to learn Chinese language?  but it's very very hard to learn.

 

We have to learn chinese.. Mandarim will dominate the world!!! hehe in the future, English will be "lost" as an important language, and chinese will take its place! heheh (I really hope not... lol 'cause chinese is too hard to learn....)

 

Anyway, it's all I heard today. When I was in Toronto learning English many students used to say that. Heheh

Edited April 18, 2005 at 12:58 PM by tativale

[Bellamy]

We have to learn chinese.. Mandarim will dominate the world!!! hehe in the future, English will be "lost" as an important language, and chinese will take its place! heheh (I really hope not... lol 'cause chinese is too hard to learn....)

 

Anyway, it's all I heard today. When I was in Toronto learning English many students used to say that.  Heheh

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I think it's true in Toronto at least. I heard half people there are Chinese.