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Meizhonghua 美中话: Jingdezhen tile for Argentina
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The opposite of chinglish. What I speak in China. May 11, 2009. Jingdezhen tile for Argentina. In early April, while working at the Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute 景德镇陶瓷学院 in Jiangxi Province, China, the porcelain center of the universe, I received an email request from Cristina del Castillo to join in a collective mural tile project "Tiles of Artists III". In Argentina. I began a porcelain tile to the specifications requested. TonyBi and Wu Fei signing the tile. James, John, Dean. May 13, 2009 at 2:29 PM.
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Meizhonghua 美中话: Flow of Wisdom
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The opposite of chinglish. What I speak in China. May 26, 2009. The clay was soft. The weather was rainy. The clay, as it slowly dried, became chalky and fragile. This clay, made mostly of feldspar, is difficult to work. The stones and bones gathered to dry. Students gathered to wonder why I was making these stones, sticks, spirals, bones. 我还不知道。I don't know yet, I answered. Bamboo is an amazing plant, a grass really, that spreads its shoots shallow and far. Still unsure as to how to proceed, I, at last,...
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Meizhonghua 美中话: Inspired by China's porcelain...bowl sale saturday
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The opposite of chinglish. What I speak in China. December 8, 2009. Inspired by China's porcelain.bowl sale saturday. Studio Sale Saturday 12-5. 7 Tufts Street Cambridge, MA. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Richard's Asia travel blog. View my complete profile. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Meizhonghua 美中话: Nanshan Waterfall at Yaoli
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The opposite of chinglish. What I speak in China. January 30, 2011. Nanshan Waterfall at Yaoli. Click on post title or slideshow to the right to see bigger pics. But none of these favorite places features the vast waves of rustling feathery yellow green bamboo that we saw across the way and walked through as we descended. My Chinese friends are surprised when I tell them that we do not have this kind of bamboo forest where I live. Then we started down through the bamboo. S I found fiddle head ferns, but ...
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Meizhonghua 美中话: Kiln Guys
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The opposite of chinglish. What I speak in China. July 22, 2009. The kiln is unloaded at eight am Between 8 and 10 the makers arrive to collect their finished work. Once collected, we show the work to the owner, who, with a glance calculates the fees, paid in cash, change made from a fat wad from the pocket. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Richard's Asia travel blog. View my complete profile. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Meizhonghua 美中话: Themes in no particular order
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The opposite of chinglish. What I speak in China. July 8, 2009. Themes in no particular order. Fired hard or soft. The power of smile. On bicycling and traffic. 慢走man zou Slow go. Better a smoke after dinner than 99 years. Bobo and the girls. Argentine International Tile Project. James and the Gettysburg Address. Theme parks of Ancient Villages. Yaoli and Nanshan Waterfall. Meeting of interests- Chinese culture and clay. Sanctuary in a dorm. Visual depictions of Ceramic Processes. Music in the Studio.
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Meizhonghua 美中话: Back again from China
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The opposite of chinglish. What I speak in China. October 31, 2009. Back again from China. I returned last week from my second trip to China this year. I returned to Jingdezhen for the International Ceramics Festival and an Exhibition in which I was showing a piece which is now in the collection of the Jingdezhen Ceramics Museum. More to come. Nice to be home. Jingdezhen international ceramics festival. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Richard's Asia travel blog. View my complete profile.
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Meizhonghua 美中话: LaoChang, the Old Factory area
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The opposite of chinglish. What I speak in China. September 19, 2009. LaoChang, the Old Factory area. Welcome to LaoChang, the Old Factory area. Unfired pots are deftly moved through the streets on hand pulled wheeled carts. Beyond the tracks are masters with with rows of plaster molds being poured and released and turned in the sun. September 24, 2009 at 12:44 PM. September 24, 2009 at 4:18 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Richard's Asia travel blog. View my complete profile.
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Meizhonghua 美中话: Keep off a bump on the head
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The opposite of chinglish. What I speak in China. August 14, 2009. Keep off a bump on the head. Last week, a friend sent this web link to a site with photos of Chinese signs. Keep off a bump on the head. We would write, "Watch your head". Which if reverse translated into Chinese might come out as "Read your head" or "look at your head". So while this sign translates strangely, we are lucky it didn't say "Small heart, bump head." Sort of Zen koan there. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
