Pakistan to set up special unit to protect Chinese citizens
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikaeru/115583941639906512
There is a very interesting article about gender-inclusive pronouns in Chinese, including mentions of characters yet to be added to the Unicode set, making use of Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS): ⿰无也, ⿰㐅也, ⿰男也...
Janet Davey. (2025). Taking "TA" Beyond the Binary: In Search of Multimodal Gender-inclusive Pronouns in Chinese. Image & Narrative, 25(03), 131–163. Retrieved from https://imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/3417
🔗 [PDF] https://imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/3417/2829
#Movies #Asian #Chinese #China
I'm watching #55DaysInPeking (again) after a long hiatus & it's just as annoying now as when I 1st watched it.
While it has it's moments, it's reflective of the patronizing & racist way in which the #US film industry has depicted China & the Chinese people for nearly 100 years.
It was a blockbuster movie when it was released in 1963 & stars #CharlestonHeston, #AvaGardner & #DavidNiven & is set during the #BoxerRebellion in China during 1899-1901 which was a grass roots attempt to oust foreign "invaders" from China.
While it failed, the Boxer Rebellion is believed to have contributed to the fall of the Manchu (Ching) Dynasty & the formation of the Kuomingtang (Chinese Nationalist Party) that later fell to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) which then led to the formation of the #RepublicOfChina in Taiwan, which (of course) the CCP does NOT recognize & is just waiting to invade & retake in the name of China.
Worth watching in an historical film context but not otherwise.
Street scene, Chinatown, San Francisco between 1896 and 1906.
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.
#Chinatown #SanFrancisco #Arnold #Chinese #Asian #City&townlife #Streets #photography