For the Love of a Monkey
If there is a TV serial that has kept being popular for more than 20 years in China, it can only be Journey to the West. It was on TV as early as in 1984 and tells a story of a monk in Tang Dynasty going on a pilgrimage to India for Buddhist scriptures with his three fellows: [...]
The Overuse Of Taichi Diagram
On this film trip around China, no matter where we went and what we filmed, the Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hakka houses and Chen Taichi, almost every interviewee would like to show us the diagram of Taichi, and illustrate the principle of yin and yang, bagua, and five elements. For the Hakka houses, people would mention [...]
Want Invoices?
In China, there is always a special group of people hanging around the streets and whispering to passers-by “want invoices?” The invoices they are selling are mostly real invoices from restaurants or hotels since many guests don’t take invoices after they pay the bill. The price of the invoices is usually 10% of the real [...]
Born In 1930s
It was really a surprise when my grandpa told us at one dinner that he would go to attend a meeting with his junior middle school classmates the next day. Born in 1930s, the generation of my grandfather has witnessed many big events of China, including the Civil War in 1940s, the Great Leap, the [...]
Under The Blue Sky
Almost no one can imagine Beijing can enjoy so blue sky and nice weather during the Olympics. Compared with the stifling hours at the opening ceremony, when presidents of different countries were seen sitting quite close, waving the paper fans and wiping sweat, the following days seem to be from another world. I went to [...]
Interview in Dubai Newspaper
Dubai may not be high up the list when you think of places to learn from martial arts masters, but that will soon change if one karate expert has his way.Kyle Helou is a graduate of the Japan Karate Shotorenmei (JKS) Instructor Training Programm, also known as Kenshusei. Shugyosei, and his mission is to take [...]
Olympic Kids
The opening ceremony shows quite a few typical characteristics of China, except for the large population, the overuse of kids is obviously one of them. In China, kids are always said to represent the hope of China. In the opening ceremony, the audience saw so many hopes of China as well as the long rich [...]
Olympic Power
Cannot avoid talking about Olympics when you talk about Beijing and China recently. On August 8, the opening ceremony of Beijing 29th Olympics finally uncovered its veil after so many political issues and disasters and safety concerns before this. The ceremony undoubtedly won a lot of WOWs and applause all over the world with its [...]
Reports Back From Sichuan Province
Sorry about the late report of Sichuan Province. You can not expect too much from three days interview especially when these interviews were arranged already. we spent most of the time in the bus and officials’ offices, there was just little time left for us to see Chengdu people in real life. we got very [...]
Reports From Sichuan Province
Just like all the big cities in China, at the first sight of Chengdu, the capital city of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, you can hardly tell the difference. I am afraid that only the local dialects can help people identify different cities. That is why I feel quite at home here, because it is all [...]
The Color Red Ⅲ
Even so, RED just boomed in the language, still not in daily life. The typical image of Chinese people in those revolution days has always been people wearing dark green or gray army suits and they are not even allowed to wear clothes of fresh colors. But at the same time, things with RED name [...]
The Color Red Ⅱ
More than 2,000 years ago, China is in the Han Dynasty. At that time, Taoism was raised to the highest level by the Emperors. One of the emperors said he was the son of Chi Emperor, an immortal of Taoism. Chi is a cultured expression for the color Red. So from then on, common people [...]
The Color Red
What is the color of China ? Most people might say: RED. Why red? The national flag, red lanterns, red celebrations, red wedding ceremonies…what else? Red Army, Red Guard, Red Book of Chairman Mao…yes, all red. I live in Beijing , a city busy in preparing for the Olympics with many newly-built subways, new airport [...]
Welcome to Betty’s China Blog!
Hello, everybody. it is Betboop, the assistant of Empty Mind Films in China. i am here to tell you the stories of China with my eyes. so just feel free to ask me anything you want to know, and i will write some articles here as well as long as i have time. So just [...]
