Hong Kong

Jimmy Choo is a Malaysian fashion designer. His real name is Choo Yeang Keat. Jimmy Choo was born in Penang, Malaysia in 15 November 1952 to Zhou family, similar surname with a China’s famous premier Zhou Enlai and the popular Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat who is the actor in the Oscar award movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. They are from the same family clan which is the Zhou clan family. The surname was wrongly spelled in his birth certificate as “Choo” instead of Chew in Penang Hockkien…

The personal preference about the attraction for HongKong & Dubai The taste of people is just like the personality, no one has the exactly same compared to others. For me, there are parts I like and dislike both in HongKong & Dubai, for example: As foodie (likes tasting all kinds of food), the first thing I search for in a city is the food center. HongKong is recognized as a food paradise, but it is also a city that never sleeps( a paradise for people having fun). There are more than ten…

Chunking Express Chungking Express draws a restless alienation and ambiguity between urban people in Hong Kong, and delicates the subtle people relationship happened on four characters in the modern city. Cope 633, acted by Tony Leung, is one of the isolated figure. Wong Kar-wai’s unique directing style and soundtracks make the film stand out in many art films in the nineties of Hong Kong. In Wong Kar-wai’s movie, Chunking Express, Tony Leung’s acting has been a certain degree of…

master who specialized in describing protagonists’ characteristics by details and the whole environment. Since he grows up in Hong Kong, a former British colony involving Chinese culture and western culture, he has lots of thinking on this metropolis and the people living there. Thus he directs bunch of films such like Chungking Express, telling the love stories happened in Hong Kong via protagonists’ characteristics and background music. In this movie, there are two independent and…

The Opium Wars were two wars in the 19th century which forced China to trade with the world. The first opium war was between Great Britain and China in the 19th century, this was also called the Anglo-Chinese War. War had begun due to the different viewpoints they had on diplomatic relations, trade, and administration of justice for foreign nationals in China. An imbalance in the European market was created when the Europeans demanded for Chinese goods (silk,porcelain, and tea). In the 17th and…

Introduction The culture in Hong Kong is varies from time to time, there are many unclear lines have been drawn in defining the cultural change since there are different narratives told by different “Hong Kongers”. From defining the cultural change in Hong Kong, to taking for granted that a genuine Hong Kong culture does exist. Especially after the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, it has propelled the the analysis of social and cultural phenomena in Hong Kong (Cheung & Tam, 1999). So, the period…

Hong Kong is an international city, one of the wealthiest places in the world. Many people just focus on how good is Hong Kong, a material wealthy city. However, there are also a large amount of people live in cage house, subdivided unit and you can see beggars, homeless wherever. Hong Kong has a large-scale poverty problem but it seems it does not ring a bell to most of the Hong Kong citizens. Poverty can be defined as absolute poverty and relative poverty. Absolute poverty refers to not…

this experience was being shared, because there was a pair of tickets. Travel also means change and I believe Jing-Mei was feeling that change as soon as she arrived in China. The first line of the story says, “The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong borders and enters Shenzhen, China, I feel different.” The…

Translation Essential: Six Reasons to Translate Into Chinese Your translation dollars only go so far and you need to maximize your return on investment. Why translate into Chinese? Consider these six arguments: 1. China is a market of 1.3 billion consumers. With the Internet, you have access to the vast majority of them. However, if you want the average Chinese consumer to open their wallet for you, you are going to need to approach them in their native language. This is true whether you…

Disney endured major difficulties in Paris and received a huge backlash in its practices from the French claiming American cultural imperialism. They faced backlash when it came to the dress code standards which were deemed unacceptable and against France’s labour laws. It is alleged some training was perceived as invasive and totalitarian which was the opposite in Asia and were easily implemented with the view of Disney’s core values as the “happiest place on earth” (thejhannanarepublic, 2015).…