surnames could be changed

In china a nationwide survey by the ministry this April found that about 85 percent of Chinese use one of only 100 surnames, this cause a lot of repetition, which makes it hard for authorities to do their do-to-day work.
In the future, people could have a surname made up of both their parents' family names. If a recent Ministry of Public Security ruling become law. And If the father's family name is A, and the mother's family name is B, a person could have four options for their surname: A, B, AB, BA.

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Dark Matter 暗物质

Inspired by a true story

From one world to another
A brilliant Mind
A new life
A blinding ambition

They took his hopes
They took his dreams
until he could take no more......


This is the Dark Matter that controls the fate of the universe.

Meryl Streep: Ni hao

Meryl Streep: I’d like to propose a toast to our new Chinese students.

Meryl Streep: I just want to make a connection

LY: Just for success

Man: This is the highest score we ever had on the qualifying exams, you know that?

LY: Thank you, I am excited

Meryl Streep: You certainly are

Aidan Quinn: Welcome to the team

Aidan Quinn: This is excellent work, Liu Xing

LY: Thank you

Aidan Quinn: Now this is America

LY(to a gril): Do you like Chinese food?

Man: But we are all working for Reiser here

Aidan Quinn: Are you out of your mind, this is way over your head

LY: But but….

Aidan Quinn: I said absolutely no

Meryl Streep: Is there something you could do because he looks up to you so much?

Aidan Quinn: He is a brilliant guy. Unfortunately he’s not a team player

LY: Pa Ma, here is the money I saved in America

Girl: You are a really nice guy but I’m sorry

Aidan Quinn: You have to pay your dues first

Aidan Quinn: You work for me, don’t you?

Professional: It’s a highly original piece of work

Aidan Quinn: He’s an arrogant little bastard

Man: I’m afraid we can’t accept your dissertation until you re-do the computations

Liu Ye: Why you never tell this to me?

Man: Do it again


The feature film debut of renowned opera and theater director Chen Shi-Zheng, DARK MATTER delves into the world of Liu Xing (Chinese for “Shooting Star”), a Chinese science student pursuing a Ph.D in the US in the early 1990s. Driven by ambition, yet unable to navigate academic politics, Liu Xing is inexorably pushed to the margins of American life, until he loses his way.
Liu Xing (Liu Ye) arrives at a big Western university with plans to study the origins of the universe. In the beginning, everything is looking up. He finds other Chinese students to share a cheap apartment with him, and flirts with an attractive American girl who works in a local tea shop. When the head of the department, Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), welcomes Liu Xing into his select cosmology group, it seems that only hard work stands between him and a bright future in American science. At an orientation for foreigners sponsored by a local church, Joanna Silver (Meryl Streep), a wealthy patron of the university, notices the earnest student. An unspoken bond forms between them.
Liu Xing becomes Reiser’s protégé, accompanying him to a prestigious conference where he makes an impressive debut. He is drawn to the study of dark matter, an unseen substance that shapes the universe, but it soon becomes clear that his developing theories threaten the Reiser Model. Excited by the possibility of a breakthrough, Liu Xing is deaf to warnings that he must first pay his dues. Soon he is eclipsed within the department by Laurence, a more dutiful Chinese student, and is forced to go behind Reiser’s back to publish his discoveries. When the article draws ire instead of accolades, Liu Xing turns to Joanna, who naively encouarges him on his collision course.
Liu Xing clings to the idea of America science as a free market of ideas, and American society as wide open to immigrants. But in the end, his dissertation is rejected, and the girl in the tea shop brushes him off. His roommates find job, leaving him behind. Too proud to accept help from Joanna, and unwilling to return home to his parents, Liu Xing becomes a ghost-like presence in the university. Left alone with his shattered dreams, he explodes in a final act of violence.
Inspired by a real event, DARK MATTER has a screenplay by Billy Shebar and a story by Chen Shi-Zheng and Billy Shebar. The film was financed by American Sterling Productions and produced by Janet Yang of American Sterling Productions and Mary Salter and Andrea Miller of Saltmill LLC. Kirk D’Amico and Linda Chiu are executive producers.

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http://www.darkmatterthefilm.com/

Lessons from Hardship

From: xinjiang economic news
author: Tim Hathaway in urumqi

A good friend of mine grew up in the countryside of shanxi in the 1960's. His stories are very different from my childhood on the east coast of America. My family is not rich, but we always had three meals a day, a car to drive to work,and a television to relax in the evenings. That TV also showed me images of other less fortunate people in the world, which were much worse than my friend's description of his childhood. he once told me though," Chinese are more able to endure hardship than anyone else in the world." I did not say this to him, but I found his opinion to have the wrong focus."
According to the United Nations, nearly one sixth of the world lives on less than one dollar a day, and 10.6 million children died before the age of five in 2005, most of whom could have been saved very easily,. In the same year the United Nations proposed the same year the United Nations proposed the Millennium Goals, which are eight developmental goals for the world to reach by 2015. It is hoped that with the cooperation and generosity of governments and businesses poverty and extreme hunger will be eradicated and the child mortality rate will be reduced, etc. Already there has been progress, especially in Asia, but many people in the world still endure more hard ship than necessary.
Is there such a thing as necessary hardship? People like my friend have gone through more than was necessary and it has shaped his character. I will never fully grasp the depth of this impact, and his child will not be able to either.Many people today say that kids cannot endure hardship. What kind is necessary for them?
When my friend's 19 year old daughter went back to college he made her ride in the hard seat class. The trip was over 40 hours and she later complained bitterly of sore legs and back. When her father asked her why she did not get up and walk around, she said that someone would have taken her seat.
I would not be able to take this kind of trip. I simply cannot endure what many other people do, but my parents instilled in me a sense of compassion. Does it take an over 40hour train ride to create this in Chinese youth? What can we learn from hardship that will help us as a world to reach theUNMillennium Goals?