It's rather difficult to get a decent speed connexion to CCTV's website. So the best way to watch the programs is by downloading first the file on your hard disk.
To download streaming files, video, audio or others, you can use a software called Net Transport, simple and easy.
You just give the URL location of the file you want to download and so it's done!
I have to tell you I let myself notice lately here in Beijing
1) I'm blonde again ...
2) after some patience ... I have finally become the upper half of a person wearing a formal jacket telling the news from the day before to the people in the telly ... and more, I am the first upper half of a Belgian to do that on Chinese TV !
Yeps ! I am a news TV anchor ! I had been longing for that since I was a child (and blond) ...
I officially started yesterday at 10pm for the 10-minutes cultural news program
http://fr.cctv.com/program/journaldelaculture/20060119/101230.shtml
And while I was at it,
I anchored a 2d one, the real, serious, one, 30-minutes long at 11pm
Which was totally unexpected (sic, there a was a mess on the planning and at the end of the day, I was the only one sporting the right kind of Rod Stewart's hairdo and the war paintings they call make-up here) ...
http://fr.cctv.com/program/journal/20060119/100743.shtml
To be honest, during the intro of the first program, I started feeling very scared. It is quite lucky TV anchors usually sit while broadcasting, otherwise the first image of the studio would have been an empty one ... I would not have been able to raise only an eyebrow, I was petrified.
And I could not hear the first text I read aloud, I thought the technicians would tell me off for not speaking loud enough. I could just hear my heart pounding in my chest "pototom, pototom, pototom..."
A good rush of adrenaline makes you always feel better...
But that, it was almost ok,
Sorry for the blank endless staring,
No, I was not trying to hypnotize people through hertzian waves
I was just afraid to skip a line of text on the screen ...
I'll maybe do better next time
Kisses full of orange foundation
Babo
I just read a Bourdieu's article explaining why there's no such thing as a public opinion and that polls rarely reflect the truth.
But I can't help, those mathematical reductions following are too yummy not to be widespread all over the world and all over my blog.
This is about Chinese middle school students and their parents
So for the sake of familial relations and neo-confucean values, let's go:
- 70 % of Chinese middle school students have serious problems with their parents
- 6.62 % are afraid of them
- 13.13 % loathe them
- 56.28 % are extremely disgusted with or even hate them
- 4.75 % like them
Source of conflicts between parents and children
- their school grades
- their weight
- their friends
55 % of parents hope their children will study for a Ph.D.
83.6 % require their children to rank in the top 15 of their class
Conflicts between parents and their children come from
- too high education expectations
- family violence
- parents' old fashioned ideas
- interference in a child's privacy: their choice of friends and time spent surfing the web
If I elaborate more on that, I am going to say nasty things and I am neither a parent or a Chinese citizen, but a bit more of a cool, realistic, serene attitude towards life and career could come handy in some families, like at least the 55% dreaming of the PhD stuff.
The results there are just bloody frightening.
But from my past experience of foreign teacher in China, I remember one thing one of my students told me I will always remember : « You know teacher, Chinese children love their parents more than the other (non-Chinese) children. »
So it takes 2 to tango and Confucius is giving the beat ...I am not going to interfere in those loving-family affairs... except to wish them good luck!
When I lived in Linyi, I thought not much was happening there...
Maybe I was wrong. By example,
- someone revealing stories of forced abortions?
- goons preventing a family from leaving their house for 4 months?
- blind people abducted?
That's here...
Chinese Law Prof - Washington Post - Reuters - The Peking Duck