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16 Foreign Movies to Mainland China in March 2019 Including Trailers with Chinese Subtitles
🎥 Film culture around the world~ Now that the cinematic wasteland known as February is over, we finally get a list of movies worthy of any cross-cultural film critic. At least we had the Oscars to fall back on. And a couple good local choices, too. On to the juicy details… we get 16(!) this month,…
11 Foreign Movies Coming to Mainland China in January 2019 including Trailers with Chinese Subtitles
🎥 Film culture from around the world~ New year, new movie list! And not too bad of a selection if we do say so ourselves… at least better than last month. A lot of you were askin’ about the new Transformers and the Creed sequel and we thankfully get both of them (on the same…
12 Foreign Movies Come to Mainland China in November 2018 (including Trailers w/ Chinese Subtitles)
~Film culture from around the world~ Not gonna lie, this might be the best month for movies in China in the history of movies in China. Even with the exact same number of films as last month, we have MUCH more variety and there is absolutely something for everyone. We’ve got action, we’ve got fantasy,…
6 Foreign Films Come to China | August 2017 (中英双语)
After a dismal showing for movies in July, we’re back in full force for August with six “foreign” choices. Not all of them are necessarily completely foreign as Hollywood starts reaching out to other countries for more funding. Still a big fat NO for Spidey, Apes, and Dunkirk, though, but it appears all three will be…
🇿🇦 Tangshan: The Ripple Effect
When you think of China, what do you think of? What places pop into your head? You may say Shanghai or Beijing, you may think of the Great Wall of China but very few people would say that they know that place that I am living in. I live in a city called Tangshan. Tangshan…
💉 The Foreigner’s Farce of a Physical Exam
Ever since visiting Wuhan during university, all I wanted to do was move to China. But one of the lesser-known complications of getting a visa to work or study in China is that you need to have a physical examination done. Without a doctor’s approval of your “perfect” health, they wouldn’t send the official Letter of Invitation that…
🇨🇳 My Week as a Fake Boyfriend in China
(A story by one of our readers, Patrick) It started like most any week, with a failed bet among friends. Since my Spring Festival plans to go to India fell through at the last minute, I made a classy cultural wager with a fellow American comrade here in the ‘jing. If the Green Bay Packers…
Why does my American boyfriend love Star Wars so much?
We recently received this cultural question from one of our followers about Star Wars, the blockbuster film series that just released it’s eighth movie here in China. It’s really a huge question! And thanks for asking… it can actually be applied to a lot of Westerners, both girls and boys~ Link: How To Buy Movie Tickets…
【学习】Chinese Idiom: 揠苗助长 Impatience Spoils The Results（双语）
Once upon a time, an old farmer planted a plot of rice. Everyday he went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day. But still, he thought they were growing too slowly. He got impatient with the young plants. “How could…