Some hopefully interesting links on China

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22 Facts about China that you did not know (4 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXZ65OqwXRc

FlaminGo Travels: Top attractions and places to visit in China (23 min.
video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO54VXgeRMs

The world's highest and longest glass bridge ion Zhang jia jie, Hunan
Province
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaoiWH7iD7Y

Modern Xi’an in 9 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veyoIRx ... e=youtu.be

Visiting the world's cities in China (2 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSNfOaPZfr8

From Nanshan village in Zhejiang: Hand made thread-noodles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62YHHdYGOXM

Teaching «Xiao Hong Quan» (11 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ_xD_sFLJY

Winners of «China's Got Talent» (14 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... JbV0946s1U

History of China: 1600 BCE to 2017 in seven minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWqVzZn ... e=youtu.be

480 km Mombasa–Nairobi railway (30 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVmNMmgfVeg

Translation of Western names
http://www.learnchineseez.com/chinese-names/

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Rolf Melheim <rolf.melheim@******.no> Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 8:10 PM


Some hopefully interesting links on China

New Year fair singing gathering, Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, Guangdong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU7TobSZZ4U

How the Chinese zodiac’s 12 animals were chosen (article)
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article ... ere-chosen

Paralyzed in poverty: A family’s struggle (11 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBehdzVSGnI

Yuhachi Nakajima: Why I Have My Life (43 min. documentary). He was born in Japan 1942, but grew up in Heilongjiang province in China (1943–58). His Chinese name was «Laifu». As an adult he went back to Japan; revisited China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... y5k9uXqfFk

Chinese grandpa and two girls shuffle dance (short video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6HWtcYXblw

Chinese knife skills (short video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ses34Kh-WzQ

Beijing 2022 Olympics (short video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEZnSDQ ... e=youtu.be

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (5 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dStITCgn73w

Jeremy Clarkson (BBC) driving on China’s new highway network (short video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-XDxCb ... e=youtu.be

Electric Cars in China (3 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwX6tkiCNOo

China's War on Pollution (10 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R24ihv5JUeU

A time-lapse of Fuzhou (5 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX4ddEJicS4

«Asian Boss»: Can Americans Locate Asian Countries? (9 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQVnHsLwRg4

Poem and song 枉凝眉 «In Vain Longing» from CCTV series «Dream of the Red Mansion» sung by American singer Annie Kathryn Lowdermilk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... I3XurfseZ4
Translation: http://blog.tianya.cn/post-1856205-22392593-1.shtml​​
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Politics, economy:

Democracy in China (4 min. CGTN video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... rvnEpIKmAs

Taiwan politics (6 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrw0AV0niMM

Information collected by Rolf Melheim, co-author of: «Høyhastighetslandet. Historier fra det moderne Kina» (256 pages), http://www.newchinasite.wordpress.com;