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China National Film Museum

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , , , on May 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Today we visited the China National Film Museum out in the north-east suburbs of Beijing. It’s a huge complex with a three-story exhibition, an IMAX theater, a digital theater and the usual 35 mm theater. The exhibition focuses on the history of Chinese cinema from its beginning more than 100 years ago till the present. [...]

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09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , on May 2, 2007 | No Comments »

Digg has gone crazy over this 128-bit number.

This means that there is hope of being able to back up HD-DVDs, making me actually consider buying them in the future.

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Actor come director Jiang Wen

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , on May 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Jiang Wen (姜文) is a well-known name in China but appears to be fairly unknown to the rest of the world. As an actor he has worked with some of the biggest names in Chinese cinema, including Zhang Yimou, Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi. Out of the films I have seen, I especially enjoyed Keep [...]

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Goodbye Wikipedia?

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , on November 19, 2006 | No Comments »

It seems like Wikipedia is once again inaccessible. Maybe it was just a glitch in the political/technical system after all.

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Wikipedia accessible in China

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , on November 4, 2006 | No Comments »

My life online hasn’t been quite the same since I came to China because I haven’t been able to access Wikipedia. It seems that tonight, however, I can. The Wikipedia article on the issue claims that Wikipedia may have been accessible as early as October 10, but today is the first time I’ve had such [...]

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