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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (3) to (5) are dance, music and theater reviews, which you may or may not
have interest in.
(1) Vivek Wadhwa, What We Really Need to Fear About China. Washingtn Post,
Sept 27, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/what-we
-really-need-to-fear-about-china/2011/09/14/gIQAPrMy0K_story.html
(entrepreneurship)
Note:
(a) Vivek Wadhwa
http://wadhwa.com
Click the 'BIO" tag in the upper left corner.
(b) angel investor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_investor
(Angels typically invest their own funds, unlike venture capitalists, who
manage the pooled money of others in a professionally-managed fund. Although
typically reflecting the investment judgment of an individual, the actual
entity that provides the funding may be a trust, business, limited liability
company, investment fund, etc)
(c) Robert HSIUNG 熊 尚文 (Stanford MBA)
(2) Keith B Richburg, The Chef Who Cooked Chinese, Then Went to China.
Washingtn Post, Sept 27, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-chef-who
-cooked-chinese-then-went-to-china/2011/09/20/gIQA3VXP2K_story.html
Note:
(a) chow feung noodle: usually spelled chow fun; Cantonese; 炒(河)粉
(b) Tiandi Yijia restaurant 天地一家 (owners 任小勇和张霞夫妇)
(c) stockpot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockpot
(traditionally used to make "stock (cooking)" or "broth")
(d) trotter (n): "a pig's foot used as food"
www.m-w.com
(e) natural (n): "one born without the usual powers of reason and
understanding"
(f) For line chef, see chef
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef
(section 2.4 Chef de partie: also known as a "station chef" or "line cook")
(g) The daikon 大根 is Japanese for turnip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon
(3) Sarah Kaufman, China’s High-Energy Ballet Is on Trend. Washingtn Post,
Sept 23, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/chinas-high
-energy-ballet-is-on-trend/2011/09/23/gIQAunMIrK_story.html
Note:
(a) The Red Detachment of Women 红色娘子军
(b) six o’clock extension in ballet:
http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/December-2006/Sylvie-Guille
("Early on, she whipped a leg into her renowned six-o’clock extension")
(c) in spades: "to an unusually great degree : in the extreme"
(d) The "canned" in "canned music"
(adj): "prepared or recorded in advance; especially : prepared in
standardized form for nonspecific use or wide distribution
"
(e) The "externals" in "the externals of ballet."
external (n): "something that is external: as
a : an outer part
b : an external feature or aspect —usually used in plural"
(4) John Banno, At Kennedy Center’s ‘China-U.S.A.,’ West Engulfs East.
Washingtn Post, Sept 22, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/at-kennedy-center
-china-usa-west-engulfs-east/2011/09/21/gIQAf5TfoK_story.html
("it was the tradition of conservatory-trained Chinese composers suppressing
nearly everything distinctive about their country’s endemic music in an
effort to sound more Western. * * * the Chinese-in-name-only works on the
program)
Note:
(a) The "snatch" in "some snatches of Chinese folk melody."
snatch (n): "a brief period "
(b) The Savage Land 原野
(c) warmed-over (adj):
"1: not fresh or new : STALE
2: heated again "
(d) Gian Carlo Menotti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Carlo_Menotti
(e) theremin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
(an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible
physical contact from the player; named after its Russian inventor,
Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928)
(f) Hua-bang-zi 河北 花梆子 (高音板胡)
(g) Sunshine on Tashkurgan 阳光照耀着塔什库尔干
* Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County 喀什地區 塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkurgan_Tajik_Autonomous_County
* Chuanyun LI 李 传韵
(h) Italianate (adj): "Italian in quality or characteristics"
(i) bel canto (n; Italian, literally, beautiful singing):
"operatic singing originating in 17th century and 18th century Italy and
stressing ease, purity, and evenness of tone production and an agile and
precise vocal technique"
(5) Celia Wren, Theater review: ‘Two Dogs’ Opinions on Life’ at the
Kennedy Center. Washingtn Post, Sept 21, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/theater-review-tw
-dogs-opinions-on-life-at-the-kennedy-center/2011/02/28/gIQADyr2lK_story.
html
(6) Keith B. Richburg and John Wagner, Md. Casino Developer Courts Wealthy
Chinese by Offering Green Cards in Exchange for $500,000 Investment.
Washingtn Post, Sept 19, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/md-casino-devel
/2011/09/19/gIQAyAgjgK_story.html
(EB-5 visa program) |
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