Spirit of China
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- darrenlamb
Hey Guys,
Just wanted to take a collective pulse here. I just have one question.
What do you think of when you hear "The Spirit of China"?
Maybe only people who live in China or have been there should answer this though because I am trying to avoid the 'China theme' answers like chopsticks, fu man chus, chinese new year and shit like that...
To give you an example, this is what comes to my mind
- darrenlamb0
Btw, Thanks very much :)
- jfletcher0
I'm in China right now at work... I'm guessing you posted a YouTube link above because there is just a big blank space.
hahahaha.- Indeed..its just waltzing at Fuxing Park, Shanghai...vpn mate, vpn!darrenlamb
- hahaha i see a blank screen too!!
where in China town are you?e-pill
- darrenlamb0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bec…
Another Spirit of China gem...
- seems you dont want answers like the examples you posted above but yet you only post..e-pill
- the websites like youtube and flickr both of which are blocked websites in china..e-pill
- What?darrenlamb
- Oh right, didnt see the second bit...well I dunno man...get yourself a vpn...im in SHdarrenlamb
- yes everyone tells me VPN but QBN works fine and soku and youku replace youtube easy..e-pill
- jfletcher0
Are you still in Shanghai? I'll be there next week, I'm in Nanjing right now. I can't VPN at work. It's blocked. I can later :)
- Yeah man, im in the office in Shanghai...the whole thing is on a VPN so Im just lucky...darrenlamb
- darren if i make it to Shanghai would you come out for QBN Shanghai Drinks??e-pill
- jfletcher0
Seriously though... Red (the color) is the first thing that comes to mind. The color of power. Everything from banners, to neon signs, to necklaces are red.
A visual mood board in my mind shows lots of things happening in tight compressed space, like their websites, apartments, streets, or stores. I have a strong feeling of national pride, with some decent xenophobia.
Very hard working and wants to make a global impact. Sometimes (er, well, often) scruples and human empathy/rights are pushed to the side to make this impact.
- Yeah we are on the same wavelength I reckondarrenlamb
- I need to buy a nice jade necklace as well!jfletcher
- darrenlamb0
http://www.environmentalgraffiti…
These are similar to the pic I posted from flickr...for those of you that don't have a VPN
- site opens but images wont loade-pill
- Its basically just a picture of a bloke on a bike with a mountain of polystyrene shite on the back of it...darrenlamb
- e-pill0
i see more colours than the usual red. im in a small city that actually has individual personality within their fashions .. bright colours, patterrns and shape with the absolute vision of heritage and chaos.. you being in shanghai.. may be too extreme to be an example as that city holds the visuals of every large metropolitan.. go visit the smaller cities for the crude language of visual identity.. the mildew.. the crowded streets the neon.. the umbrellas without rain.. mopeds.. the ramps on sidewalks.. the very poor to extreme wealthy.. this is china.. endless firecracking car honking throat hawking spitting starring loud language culture..
i come to china to often.. its already part of my lifestyle.. yes that is the spirit of china.. its a lifestyle.
- what small city are you in?jfletcher
- I'm not sure if china's culture is modernising in a graceful way.inteliboy
- car honking is minimal compared to India it seems... sweet jesus what a cacophony!jfletcher
- im in FuQing.. in Fujian provence.. population 2million.. small city.e-pill
- I'm in Nanjing, not Shanghai... I finally visit Shanghai next week, never been.jfletcher
- i only been to shanghai airport.. but i been to china 32 times since 1999.e-pill
- sounds like me and Korea.jfletcher
- what do you do in china?e-pill
- I have a client here. I live in Amsterdam, but travel here. Working on mobile applicationsjfletcher
- detritus0
Selfishness.
- In the space between the intimate and the social, I mean.detritus
- Good point, but this has to be positive!darrenlamb
- pang0
From my experiences... crowded tourist areas, the local "farmers" or "no-ming" (not sure of the correct spelling) in their cheap suits, the seriously crowded trains on Chinese New Year, the popularity of, what we call in UK, "puffer jackets", strong family bonds, crazy hospitals(!), corruption, exotic foods, their constant drive to earn money, the Chinese "face", i.e. how Chinese people are perceived by others and the constant need never to show weakness in front of others, the pressure from parents to their offspring to marry after the university period, the one child policy (obvious one)... and as mentioned above, hawking or as we say, "hocking" in to public bins - this always makes me laugh. OH... and the classic of being able to spit out fish bones right on to the restaurant floor. Great stuff :)
That's just a few off the top of my head... might have deviated there a bit ;)
- Thanks man, although I can one up you on the gobbing in public. I saw a mum let her kid take a shit on a moving escalator!!!darrenlamb
- escalator!darrenlamb
- LOL, nice one.pang
- Witnessed a kid taking a poop off the curb in to the gutter down normal street.pang
- the one child policy was changed years ago. if your first born is female you can have more.e-pill
- pang0
Oh... in Changsha, the chairman Mao statue there is treated like a shrine and a kind of holy land for the local supporters, lots of crowds taking photos etc.
- pang0
'Donkey Meat' shops just off Wang Fu Jin street, BJ.
Nice.
Ching-lish translations can be very amusing.
Chinese opera on TV there... lol and their reality shows of "Chinese girl takes home Western boyfriend" in a Jeremy Kyle/Jerry Springer style for China, lol.
- dobre0
Hard working
Entrepreneurship
Family & community
Top ability to reproduce
- loool0
well I haven't been there, but my parents were when I was a kid and they always say one thing: BIKES!
- pang0
LV and Burbery