Could somebody recommend me some good Chinese movies (preferably in Mandarin)? In top-lists there are literary only drama, historical and martial arts films or mix of some of those I would like to watch some psychological/thriller/action/sci-fi/criminal etc. movies (or sth else, but please no dramas), but there's hardly any of them What would you say about "Black Coal Thin Ice?"
Jackson Foster
There is this action chinese movie whete a guy goes to Africa
Levi Bailey
What's the name of that movie?
Daniel Thompson
I feel like I'm disproportionately far better at reading characters than writing them. wat do
Parker Wilson
Have the same problem Just try to rewrite random sentences from internet on paper Then do it once again And again There's nothing else to be better at writing than writing a lot If you use some flashcards you may want to make a condition that you will only click "good" button if you managed to write a character/word/sentence down
>In a 2003 interview, Xi stated that “People who have little experience with power… tend to regard it as mysterious and novel. But I look past the superficial things - the power and the flowers and the glory and the applause. I see the detention houses, the fickleness of human relationships. I understand politics on a deeper level.”
>The young Xi had already lived two lives by the time he arrived in the cave. During his early childhood, his father was a hero of the communist revolution and Xi enjoyed a privileged and cloistered upbringing as a “red princeling”.
>A 2009 American diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks - and based on a briefing from a close friend of Xi’s - said the first 10 years of his life were the most formative.
>“The most permanent influences shaping Xi's worldview were his ‘princeling’ pedigree and time growing up with families of first-generation Communist Party revolutionaries in Beijing's exclusive residential compounds.”
>But all of that was shattered in the maelstrom that an increasingly paranoid and vengeful Chairman Mao inflicted on the party elite in the 1960s. Xi’s father was first purged and then jailed, and his family humiliated. One of his sisters died, possibly driven to suicide. By the time he was 13, Xi’s formal schooling ended as classes across Beijing were suspended so that students could criticise, beat and even murder their teachers.
>Without parents or friends to protect him from the Red Guards dispensing the summary justice of the Cultural Revolution on the streets, the teenage Xi lived his second Beijing life, dodging death threats and detention. Much later, he recalled an encounter in a conversation with a reporter.
>“I was only 14. The Red Guards asked, ‘How serious do you yourself think your crimes are?’
>“I said, ‘You can estimate it yourselves. Is it enough to execute me?’
>“‘We can execute you a hundred times,’ they replied.
>“To my mind there was no difference between being executed a hundred times or once.”
>Many of Xi’s generation agree that when their schooling stopped and they learned to survive on their wits, they developed emotional toughness and independence of thought. Xi later reflected on his ability to listen to other points of view without necessarily bowing to them.
>“I had to learn to enjoy having my errors pointed out to me, but not to be swayed too much by that. Just because so-and-so says something, I’m not going to start weighing every cost and benefit. I’m not going to lose my appetite over it.”
>Supremely pragmatic, a realist, with his "eyes on the prize" from early adulthood.
>This was how Xi’s friend described him in the 2009 diplomatic cable. Unlike many youths who "made up for lost time by having fun", Xi was exceptionally ambitious and focused. After the Cultural Revolution, he "chose to survive by becoming redder than the red”.
>Xi took the traumas of his early life and the solitude of the cave with him. His friend said his reserve, a certain distant quality, contributed to the failure of his first marriage to the daughter of a senior diplomat.
>But it clearly contributed to the success of his political career. Until he reached the very top, his defining achievement was to have risen with barely a trace.
>The only time he drew attention to himself was when he married his current wife, a celebrity singer. For many years the public joked: "Who is Xi Jinping? He is Peng Liyuan's husband.”
Dominic Mitchell
>Having watched as his outspoken father was victimised by Mao, Xi deferred to power and was careful to avoid making enemies. Even in his 40s and 50s as a very senior Party leader, he was always competent, never showy.
>One astute insider described him as “a needle concealed in silk floss”.
>Eleanor Dvorchak hosted him on an agricultural research trip to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1985. He slept in her son’s room with Star Trek posters on the wall. “He was humble,” she told reporters when he went back to Iowa in 2012 just before becoming China’s top leader. “No-one in their right mind would ever think that guy who stayed in my house would become the president. I don’t care what country you’re talking about.”
>Everyone was taken in. When he became Communist Party leader in 2012, Xi Jinping was the compromise choice.
>Few inside or outside China guessed at what was coming next - five years of political shock and awe.
>“He who rules by virtue is like the North Star,” Xi said, quoting the ancient philosopher Confucius. “It maintains its place, and the multitude of stars pay homage.”
>He issued edicts on the appropriate number of dishes for lunching public officials and even decreed office measurements for each rank in the hierarchy. Xi returned to his roots in the cave village to rub shoulders with ordinary farmers and make an unspoken point about the contrast between his own life story and a corrupt elite.
>But Xi, now 64, has always belonged to the elite. In the years before he took power, some of his relatives had become enormously wealthy, though there is no evidence that he sought to promote the business interests of his family.
>According to his friend’s account, in the American diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks: “Xi knows how very corrupt China is and is repulsed by the all-encompassing commercialisation of Chinese society, with its attendant nouveau riche, official corruption, loss of values, dignity, and self-respect, and such ‘moral evils’ as drugs and prostitution.”
>Xi’s resistance to the seductive power of liberal values has been ferocious. He has reached back beyond Marxism to China’s deepest sense of self, quoting an 11th Century Chinese statesman Su Shi: "The most dangerous situation for a country is when apparently everything seems fine, but hidden danger lurks. If one only sits back to watch, the situation will worsen to the point of no return.”
>“If our people cannot uphold the moral values that have been formed and developed on our own soil, and instead indiscriminately and blindly parrot Western moral values, then it will be necessary to genuinely question whether we will lose our independent ethos as a country and a people,” said Xi.
>“The gene of traditional Chinese culture is deeply planted in the mentality of modern Chinese.”
>He wants his citizens to identify with “the motherland, the Chinese nation or race, Chinese culture, and the Chinese socialist road”. He calls these the “four identifications” and has distilled them into two key slogans - the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the Chinese dream.
>In celebrating China’s communist history, Xi has been careful to balance reverence for Chairman Mao with equal deference to the economic reformer who succeeded him, Deng Xiaoping. Xi talks about Marxism and he talks about markets. But the essence of his “Chinese dream” slogan is clear - “the dream of a strong nation”.
>“Shoes don’t have to be identical, but just to fit the wearer,” Xi told one audience.
>Different dreams - like Xu Zhiyong’s vision of shared civic identity - are dangerous.
>“It is not possible to pretend that this is just another big player. This is the biggest player in the history of the world.”
>So said the late Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew of China’s rise.
>On becoming leader in 2012, Xi set China’s eyes on the prize.
>But if Xi is to achieve his centennial goals, the real challenge still lies ahead. Surface strength hides deep economic problems. Overall growth is slowing and debt mounting. Many economists warn that time is running out for the reforms which might fix China’s problems without a crisis. And behind the firewall’s façade of ideological unity are many competing ideas about China’s future.
>But the Party has survived many crises in Xi’s lifetime, from Mao’s great famine, to the Cultural Revolution, and the crushing of the 1989 democracy movement. He once said: “A sword is made on a grinding stone and a man is forged in hardship.”
>Xi’s China has so far married great wealth with great repression. If he continues to cage his tigers, clean up his comrades and silence discordant voices, the existential questions may be for others.
>Not since Chairman Mao has China’s dream of greatness rested so heavily on one man.
Carrie Grace, the author of this article, was a feminist shill, but she knew how to investigate and find out information most Western reporters don’t care to look for.
I’ll miss her absence from the BBC. I prefer feminist liberal whining over the same old boring “muh China is a single monolithic nation with one mindset” meme stories you find in FT, Washpo, CNN, and Nikkei.
She repeatedly would investigate the corruption cases and find out that the CCP members who were caught were actually all blantantly corrupt. She said that is the genius behind Xi’s anti-corruption campaign. His rivals were actually corrupt, and proven so with videos and pictures of their villas.
Did the Kraut move to Poland and made this thread?
Dominic Rogers
Nah, I used to post on Sup Forums and especially /sino/, but I don't usually find a time to do it anymore
Carson Green
shouldn't poles hate communism?
Lucas Evans
Sino =/= communism, I mean it's not even about China any more mostly the German and Peruvian autism, Sexpat Brit blog along with schizophrenic Japanese/Cuban American spam
Noah Wood
I'm gonna learn chinese, there's a big community of chinamen in Spain and I want to know what are they talking about when Im drinking beer in their bar,
As said But acrually I am socialist/communist, but of diffrent kind (I'm anarchist), and yeah, like literary every Pole hate USSR and PPR (Polish People Republic) systems And chinese one too It no longer has anything to do with socialism of any kind, but it sucks nearly as much as maoism did, but for diffrent reasons
Carter Wright
this has to be the shittiest sino in a long time
Ayden Martin
post sasha and save the thread
Nolan Ward
Previous one died on 34 posts or so This month ain't no good for sino
Colton Adams
>sino thread >not a single chink flag
Xavier Bennett
They can’t post here with their flag unless they buy a pass. And in that case it’s usually just some foreigner in china.
She’s a desperate 剩女 lad. Better watch yourself, you’ll get tricked into marriage soon. Then you’ll end up like C-cuck and Winston and the fat boy in Chengdu, marrying the first leftover chink bitch you ever meet in Chinkland
Charles Jenkins
Lel $65 million is pretty bad my Somali friend. Pretty sure it’s flop tier
Luke Reed
Your time is coming chink PRAISE KARA BOOGA
Tyler Parker
Peru did you lose your V card in china to a hooker peru?
-------------------- btw Im getting a diploma on buying from China. I already know this topic a lot even more than the teachers but I need the certification.
and there was a girl at the classroom that wants to buy small weights 1mg from China, I awaited for her and we went walking together after class, hehe totally new experience for me. but I just want to do business with her.
Christopher Long
Test firefox prevent me from posting since Opera is a Chinese browser I know it will allow me to post
Jose Wilson
It did, what do you know. I submit to my Chinese overlords
Brandon Cox
peru? why not a leftover woman. >ambitious >full of money >want a guy with the same >some of them real qts >one around 30 isn't too old, only too hot
well?
Jaxson Powell
to be honest, fucking the same vagina twice is not my thing.
Jaxson Scott
Are you sure peru? or is the truth that you are AFRAID of love!
Peru? Is she a Latina peru? that’s good peru. Maybe you’ll finally get a gf peru. Then, who knows. Maybe you’ll attain normie status peru. Get married peru, have little mixed Peruvian-mestizo-jewish babies peru, and leave us anons and Sup Forums for good peru. Peru?
Back off dude. Peru doesn’t want old rotting leftover 剩女 pussy. That’s for cucks, African nigs in GZ, and desperate huwhite bois
then do one night stands for free instead of paying for women
Michael Murphy
one night stands is a privilege of white males, I tried to compete with whites in Ho chi minh city, in a famous bar with hookers, but no hooker approached me, Im not white I must accept my capacities. one night stands for a non-white are hard to get, a game Im not built for, a game I dont wanna play.