review a few pages of " 5 men in the heaven ", the second book I read front the author of " Tuesday with Morice " the first Eddie see in Heaven is Blue man, he can't get his voice back when arrived in the heaven, this is because, according to the blue man " they want you to pay attending first in heaven, so, they want you to listen first ", this is the same as old Chinese saying : why god give you 2 ears and only one mouth ? God want human to listen more then they say.
Finish the documentary I bought from PBS via Amazon : 1421 when Chinese discover American, this 2 hours films covered the story of Cheng Ho - the human who lead 7 epic voyage fleet , traveling almost the world in Ming dynasty, the first half of the documentary follow the trace of Cheng and cover the location heaven been visited, the PBS spending decent rescues to film it, and the relevant paper were burn down in mid-late Ming, that's 30 years after the epic journey of Cheng Ho, Ming went into a " Locked nationalism ", close it's door with foreign countries, this is the decline of modern China and the decay of it's technology advance. Professor Huang Ren Yu who wrote a few great book talking about the economic administration in Ming Dynasty also expressed his feeling about the stagnate Chinese in his biography " Yellow River, Blue Mountain ", his auto biography is a book need to careful reading. A minor history of Early Republic of China.
second part of the documentary film deal with the author who wrote the book and be titled as the name of the documentary " 1421 ", a revolutionary discover of who found American -- Columbia in 1492 or Chinese 70 years before him ? As there's no hard evidence to prove his hypothesis, the book reveal a few wild guessing that can't convince professor in the same field, the second part of the film take the author to a live journey of his Cheng Ho voyage and tried to capture evidence to support his theroy, as the show ended in open question, no confirm answer to his guess, but Cheng Ho become a hero to Chinese since the fever spread for 15 years.
PBS did a great job for this Chinese ancient legend, and spend decent money, we -- Chinese community do nothing but buying the broadcasting rights from them . Isn't it weird, as I saw a imported version, I don't even know if the film been license to PTV and broadcasting publicly or not.
Bring the family to " Shark killer " animation this morning, a dream works project after Sherk, I love the film, especially when the film deal with the ocean ego system to human eco system, the comparison is funny, I think Lenny - the vegetarian and drag shark is equivalent to gay community in human world, it's a fun and entertaining story.
posted by Roger @ 10/10/2004 04:10:00 下午
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