My only #nephew, Raven, in his first car 💗
Pushed by my youngest #brother, Jerry (Teochew given name Que Huy). He's my middle brother, Steven's (Teochew given name Que Long), firstborn.
As a way to keep myself accountable and also learn Mandarin more effectively, I will be sharing how I'm trying to improve my Mandarin as a "heritage" speaker.
A Book from the Sky is a 600-page book published in 1988 by Chinese artist Xu Bing, consisting entirely of nonsense, using only meaningless, imaginary Chinese characters, printed in the style of medieval woodblock editions. According to Xu, his main purpose was to "expose the fact that Chinese literary culture is boring”. 😄 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Book_from_the_Sky#art#literature#Chinese
This story of this probably trans Burmese-Chinese warlord and Golden Triangle opium smuggler turned peace broker has always fascinated me.
What a life he led. (He was often described as bisexual, but that was because he had to marry a man earlier in life; at the end of his life he asked to be called uncle by everyone)
“ #China is not buying Africa, it is building #Africa ” is the view from Beijing. How is this landing with local audiences? There have been hints of a cooling down of Sino-African friendship. For this episode, #TheGlobalJigsaw travels to the Kenyan capital Nairobi to get a sense of #Chinese influence on the ground, and understand why #Beijing has chosen it as a hub for its media operation in Africa. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hx9h3z
If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...
Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.
non-existent labor protections, & no real labor unions in Chinese factories = cheap workforce.
worst sourcing standards for raw materials = using cheap minerals from regions with #humanrights & #environmental abuses (see recent Lead The Charge rankings)