Chinese Solo Artist: Coco Lee (李玟)

Posted by Charlie @ Discovering Mandarin Friday, 4 September 2009 0 comments
乐队(band): 李玟 Lǐ​ Wén Coco Lee​专辑(album): 东西 dōng​xī​ East to West国家(country): China发行时间(release date): August 2009Coco Lee is probably the Chinese equivalent to our Madonnas or Beyonces. Coco is a singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Coco Lee sang the song "A Love Before Time" for the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. For that performance, she received huge worldwide exposure when she sang the song live at the 73rd Academy...

Daily Chinese Proverb: Working Hard

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This proverb suits my past week, it is often used to describe someone who has worked extremely hard. Recently I have taken on more projects than my watch can handle, (at least whilst keeping up with my unpaid jollys) and if I could stop time to finish and spend all the time I want to on each thing, I would love to.做牛做马zuò​niú​zuò​mǎ​lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horseVocab:牛 niú​...

New Song: Sodagreen

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Sodagreen have got a new song: 狂熱 (fever?) It is ridiculously catchy. It is not as calm and relaxed as the songs I posted last week.Sodagreen have a new album due out soon, and a world tour upcomi...

Mandarin Movie: Ashes of Time Redux

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Ashes of Time Redux [1994 / 2008]'Ashes of Time Redux' is a good film, dreamlike, disjointed, and possessed a stunningly complex narrative poetry. Often hard to follow and the colouring of the desert scenes is at times rather overexposed and abstract. Though the front cover quite clearly has a swords man this film is more about self-meditation and thoughts of the protagonist than out and out action.The action scenes that are included are...

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