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6 teacup duos c.1930~1950 (eBay purchases)
Oh dear… I think I need more display spaces in my phantom cupboard! (or better still, another bigger matching 1930’s art deco display cabinet to the one in my rented house – will be on the hunt at Antique dealers once I get back to A house!). Despite a large number of photos, there are [...]
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Fire King, Anchor Hocking (continued)
As I said in my previous post, there seems not be a huge market for jadeite (jadite (US?)) Anchor Hocking Fire King pieces, at least in Australia anyway (more in US, where it originates). I’m still in search for jadeite cup & saucer duo, as well as the turquoise (robin’s egg blue), but in the [...]
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Fire King, Anchor Hocking, depression glasswares ‘in the Mood for Love’
We recently watched the movie ‘In the Mood for Love’, a poignant, stylish story set in 1960’s Hong Kong, directed by Wong Kar Wai (imdb or wikipedia), which has to be one of my all time favourite movies. I love both Maggie Cheung & Tony Leung in it, their fashion (Chan tai – Maggie’s character’s [...]
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乾隆年製陶器 Qinglong porcelain (tea cups)
Saturday 31 October – Another visits to Sham Sui Po. Another ‘Antique’ porcelain purchased!
We bought a pair of hand-painted tea? sake? cups with gold gildng inside (matt, not glossy & gaudy). Beautiful detailed painting of 8 Chinese mythical characters (same for both). Very good condition, with barely visible hairline cracks near the bottom rim, which [...]
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李香蘭 [玉置浩二 行かないで] (song)
One of the classics, in both Japanese & Cantonese, is this song in 日粵精華 (CD). Sang by Koji Tamaki(玉置浩二), one of the very respected singer songwriter in Japan (& music written by him also), and sang by one of the greats in Canto-pop Jacky Cheung (張學友). Sounds very natural in both language, sang by two [...]
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ろめのうと とロメモト 日粵精華 (CD)
I’ve been noticing this new CD box set for a while at CD/DVD shops & finally my curiosity got the better of me & bought it today (was $130 in Mongkok, but $105 in Ma On Shan). Obviously the Japanese title does not make much sense to Japanese people… How should I say this, it’s [...]
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レンザブロー「日本語に片思い」(Japanese blog)
常純敏(Chang Chun-min)さんの「日本語に片思い」とのタイトルのエッセーを集英社のWEB文芸「レンザブロー」で読んでます。
彼女は日本語<->中国語の翻訳者で、ジャンルも言語は違うけど、なんとなく私と似た境遇？多分歳もそうかわらないと思う。彼女の目からみた、日本／日本人の感じも同感する事が多い。香港に住む日本人として、香港人は台湾人ほど日本文化に浸かっていないけど、でも若い人の間ではファッション、ヘア、音楽、雑誌、漫画とか、日本の物が人気だし、化粧品、お菓子とか食べ物とかもなんか日本語が書いてある物の方が売れるようだし（意味不明の物や絶対に日本人がチェックしてないものも含めて）。前から行きたかったけど、台湾面白そうだな〜と思いました（食べ物もすごい美味しそうだし〜）。
今中国の60周年記念イベントをニュースで見ながら書いてます。相変わらずすごいですね。今回は女性の兵隊のマーチにフォーカスしてましたね。みんな綺麗（笑）で足の長さも顔の角度(大きさも？)も同じ！それにみんな多分優秀な人たちなんでしょう。今現在、中国以外の国では成し遂げられないでしょう。
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中國民間藝術 Chinese Folk Art (book) 3
Curator of the University Museum & Art Gallery, Yeung Chun-tong 楊春堂（but 木 instead of 土), discusses relationship between Chinese Folk Art prints & porcelain decoration.
…Diaper and net pattens are commonly stamped on green-glazed ceramics of the Western Jin Dynasty. Often found in between these patterns is a bead pattern (Tianjin Teachers print below). This bead [...]
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Tian Shanghai 天上海
Shanghai, China’s proud ever-growing metropolis, with well known turbulent history spanning over recent 100 years (& most probably more).
Description from the book: Colored. Qing Dynasty. Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. 28×50cm.
The use of the railway in China was recorded in a piece of writing of 1875. The upper portion of this work is the depiction of a [...]
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Twitchie!
No, I’m not talking about myself! but there’s this thing I saw on TV (no I don’t watch TV all the time either!!!). It was on a BS1 channel (Japanese) show called ‘New York Waves’ introducing different subcultures among youths in NY.
This guy, Rapheal is a leader of ‘Tech Craft’ movement in NY – they [...]