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Chinese professor strips in art class

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:47:12 GMT

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BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- A Chinese culture ministry official has denounced a university professor who stripped naked in front of students and teachers during an art class, a Chinese newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Mo Xiaoxin, a 56-year-old assistant professor at a university in Changzhou, in eastern Jiangsu province, shocked students by stripping during a lecture on "body art" to emphasize the "power" of the body and to "challenge taboos," the Beijing News said.

"There are no taboos in the field of research, but to do this directly in the course of teaching is obviously not appropriate," the paper quoted Tian Junting, a culture ministry official, as saying.

The lecture was part of a course within a newly established "human body art and culture" research institute -- China's first -- at Jiangsu Teachers University of Technology, the paper said.

Mo arranged for four other models, including a man and woman in their 70s or 80s, and a younger couple, to strip naked in front of the class while he lectured, the paper said.

During the nearly hour-long class, Mo also invited students to take their clothes off.

"Professor Mo appeared emotionally excited at the time," the paper quoted a student as saying. "As he was talking, he undid his belt and took off his pants, and stood naked in the middle of the lecture podium."

The naked lecture made many of the 30 or so students feel "uneasy," the paper said. "Some kept their eyes trained on the ceiling, some awkwardly bowed their heads and stared at the ground".

Tian, the culture ministry official, said the course was still in a "research phase" and it wasn't yet known whether it had produced "positive or negative effects."

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Characters of Beijing Opera

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:47:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The original work based on our traditional culture and those wallpapers were taken by ibbdd.com, and I modify them as my blog's header images.

These characters, are the Number One Scholar, warrior, general, young lady, young man, officer, women warrior, guess who is who

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Tags: beijing opera, culture, china

Is English that important

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:57:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: China is probably one of the few countries in the world where learning English has almost become a national obsession. However, most people cost much but gain little. Our teaching and test systems have deviated from the initial purpose of English learning in that it teaches and encourages elite English instead of practical one. Beneficiaries are limited to those who intend to study overseas. Yet, to the millions who have little use of the language, it is a great waste of time, energy and resources.

What's more outrageous is that the importance of English skills has been exaggerated to the extent that it overweighs almost everything in assessing a person's competency. Learning a language is, in a sense, a study of the culture on which the language is based. In that light, we should put more emphasis on learning Chinese than on English.We're losing somthing traditional and basal.

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Clip Source: www.chinatoday.com.cn

Some 20,000 English learners shout Crazy English with Li Yang at the Workers' Gymnasium.

Tags: english, learning, china

Life of people around Wudang Mountain and something about Chinese Taoist Culture

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:57:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Someone may remember the movie"Crouching Tiger,Hiding Dragon",which directed by Ann Lee.In that movie,hero performed by Yun-Fat Chow is the Master of Wudang,so we can see many Wudang Kungfu and wonderful Wudang landscapes in the movie.

Wudang always play an important part throughout Chinese history,either in Taoist,or in Kungfu.It's one of cradlelands of Taoist,and its Kungfu,one important school of Chinese Martial Arts,as famous as Shaolin Temple for our Chinese, has a very long history.The Kungfu,such as Taiji Boxing(Tai Chi),incorporating the ways to Taoist culture(keep healthy and prolong the lifespan)and collecting the skills to fight.

Chinese Taoist Culture and Taoist Temples on Wudang are unique.But now ,local government dont think much of these.By contrast,even some of these temples have a longer history than Forbidden City in Beijing,it has been damaged a lot because of non-protect,people around the mountain are poor.Furthermore,some Chinese traditional culture are losin

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Tags: life, wudang mountain, taoist, kungfu, culture, traditional