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AAAAANDDDD we're back....

29 Oct 2012 00:47 | By: Rebecca Bailey

Sorry for the long silence - getting back to Cambridge from Beijing has been a bit of a shock to the system workwise. Hopefully we should be updating this blog regularly now with links from the show every week, so if you're interested in anything (like octopus pornography - more on that later) you'll be able to look into it more yourselves. Unfortunately I can't seem to use characters at the moment on this blog, but hopefully that will be sorted out soon for any real keen beans out there.

On last week's episode, our guests were Oli White and Mark Bailey. Here are the links:

The first song was Grizzly Bear, with Gunshy; it's off their new album Shields.

The second song was the Zhou Ren and Hong Shao Rou track. I've scoured the internet but can't find any actual studio recording of Zhou Ren playing with Hong Shao Rou - just a load of scratchy phone recordings from dark and dingy Chinese rock clubs. Zhou Ren as a soloist is fairly easy to find though. Here's the best quality recording I've found of him and Hong Shao Rou.

In case you were wondering, the discussion on sex trends in Asia wasn't fuelled just by our filthy minds - here are some of the articles that triggered it:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1137697,00.html

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/10/17/the-shifting-terrain-of-sex-in-china/

http://www.danwei.com/sex-in-china-qa-with-author-richard-burger/

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/737517.shtml

However, I can make no such claims to academic pretension for our discovery of this. Although Oli claims it was a gift from his mother...

If that wasn't weird enough for you then check out the video clip to the Japanese rock song we played. Apparently they've opted for 'less dramatic attire' nowadays...

Moving VERY swiftly on to a classic from "the most lonesome singer-poet" in China, Zhang Chu with the song 'Known'.

Here's a link to the song itself, and if you want to know more about Zhang Chu, Wikipedia will oblige.

And finally, for those of you who read Chinese, here are our two chengyu of the week:

http://baike.baidu.com/view/45280.htm

http://baike.baidu.com/view/161009.htm

That's all for now, but make sure you tune in on Tuesday!

Have Fewer Children, Plant More Trees

22 May 2012 09:18 | By: Rebecca Bailey

The background image for our showpage reads shao sheng haizi, duo sheng shu - translated, it means 'have fewer children, plant more trees.' We came across this slogan on a wall in the middle of Yujiacun, a little stone village in Hebei province.

This wasn't the only amusing bit of family planning advice we found there though - by the village's market, there was a whole tiled wall dedicated to explaining the birds and the bees through a series of questions and answers. One of the questions was 'Why can't close relatives get married?' - a question that might have particular relevance to Yujiacun, as around ninety-five percent of the villagers share the family name of 'Yu.'

Why can't close relatives get married?

It's certainly not ususual to find this kind of very public biology lesson in villages though. In fact, the slogans we saw were actually amongst the more normal, as you can see from the following: http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2012/02/photos-hilarious-one-child-policy-writings-on-the-wall/

Aside from the hilarious, though, you can also come across fairly sinister and threatening ones. An example given above is 'those who should have aborted it and yet didn't, will have their house razed and their cows seized', but China's National Population and Family Planning Commission cite 'spine-chilling' examples such as 'If you escape (sterilisation) we'll hunt you down; if you want to hang yourself we'll give you the rope.' Earlier this year someone evidently felt that slogans like this might be a tad on the unfriendly side, and an overhaul was announced.

It remains to be seen just how effective this overhaul will be, given that it is still fairly easy to find slogans from the Cultural Revolution on walls in some villages.

A child eats an apple by Fenghuang, Hunan, beneath a slogan that would have read 'Long Live Chairman Mao'

More information on the overhaul: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17181951

Ni hao, folks...

19 May 2012 09:54 | By: Rebecca Bailey

Hello all,

Welcome to the Orientertainment Blog. We're your hosts, Rebecca and Dan, currently studying in Beijing on our year abroad.

Orientertainment is a show recorded in China, about East Asia. Over the next few weeks we aim to bring you a selection of reports, interviews and discussions about what's going on this side of the world, as well as music from both the East and the West.

Coming up in our next episode, we'll have reports on China's environmental issues and dormitory life, as well as an interview with a classmate doing research on China's growing aging problem. We've got music from a Chinese band called Hedgehog, and as an added bonus Dan will get all poetic on you as we discuss the Tang Dynasty.

Until then, remember you can listen again to the first episode by clicking Listen Again on the right hand side of this page.

See you next Wednesday!

Views expressed are the views of the presenters and not necessarily those of Cam FM.

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