Fili’s world

Imagine seeing a westerner speaking fluent Chinese. How would that look to you?
Me? I would be utterly jealous, obviously, as it’s what I’m trying to study (and not doing too well on that). But, is that how most people feel?
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Spending some time in Taiwan studying Chinese I’ve met quite a lot of foreigners who were [...]

Bezalel, a world class Israeli art school located in Jerusalem, has a big showcase for Israeli art at the old airport terminal (terminal 1). It's quite worth the visit, and there's plenty to see in the exhibition, but there are also special theme seminars everyday. Yesterday's seminar was about Chinese art, called "East - a [...]

(This is the third and last part to a post started here and continued here)
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After the speech by the Chinese ambassador and the big shots from the US and China it was time for the Israeli team to take over and start all the fun.
First up was a person I would love to take [...]

(This is the second part to a post started here)
Western arrogance and misconceptions about the Chinese are everywhere, forming clichés that are downright absurd. Like the trend of the so-called Chinese medicine and Chinese wisdom that everybody quotes and acts upon even though it has nothing to do with Chinese culture. A funny one that [...]

This Tuesday, arriving at Chinese class, we were informed by Lin that the class is going to be special. Aside from the fact that it's the last week of school, we were informed that we are about to have some visitors - reports from the Israeli extremely-popular channel 2. The reporters were doing a story [...]

Well hidden from outsiders' eyes I was able to spot another seminar from the HUJI Institute of International Relations called - "The rise of China into the world's agenda - Challenges and Implications" with an interesting title for the main lecture "China bashing in the US". Not knowing what it's going to be about, [...]