Feb 15, 2022 · Why is it Called the Chinese Lantern Festival? This Chinese festival is known in English as the Lantern Festival because watching lanterns 灯笼 (dēnglóng) in different shapes and sizes is one of the main attractions of this special day. In Chinese 灯 means light – 笼 means cover(ing)… So lantern literally translates to light covering.

Mar 25, 2022 · TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A video surfaced on Friday (March 25) showing a Chinese professor coerce a Taiwanese student into changing his city and country of origin on his paper from "Taipei, Taiwan" to "Taipei, China." That day, a Chinese adjunct professor Chen Zhen (陳蓁) from Milan Polytechnic posted a video on Telegram showing him lecture a ...

Jul 31, 2019 · Chengyu Stories: Why does 马马虎虎 (mǎmǎhūhū) mean “so-so” in Mandarin? OK let’s reveal all… While studying Chinese, you will learn a lot of 4 character based idiomatic expressions, alluding to a story or historical quote.. These set phrases are called 成语 chéngyǔ and they are still common in the written and spoken language today. ...

Feb 27, 2022 · TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A post on Chinese social media platform Weixin jointly signed by five prominent academics denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was almost immediately taken down by China’s censors on Saturday (Feb. 26). ... asking why the scholars had not spoken up when the U.S. had invaded other countries.

Mar 17, 2022 · Taiwanese who do business in China should exercise caution, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday, after China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) announced a new policy to attract individual investors and entrepreneurs. At a news conference in Beijing, TAO spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian (朱鳳蓮) said that Taiwanese could register as individuals …

Mar 29, 2022 · The old question of Taiwan’s name resurfaced again when Chen Zhen (陳蓁), a Chinese adjunct (part time) professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan, recently bullied a Taiwanese student into changing the name of his country of origin on his thesis. Chen pressured him to change it from “Taipei, Taiwan,” to “Taipei, China.”

Mar 20, 2022 · On Friday Wang Jixian, a Chinese national in Odesa, posted two new video diaries to YouTube – a site banned in China – in which he railed against Putin, calling him a …