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Swedish Chinese Protest about DN’s Story Kinesisk hämnd on Nov.7

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STOCKHOLM, Nov. 12(Greenpost) — It is well-known that the western media often report negative news about China with the pretext that good news is not news, bad news is news.

When the 19th National Congress of Communist Party of China opened,  all the world media were reporting the opening of this important conference which decides the future of 1.3 billion people as well as the world situation, DN used the whole page talked about China’s production of jeans.  Anyway it is about China.

Then on Nov. 7,  there is a small old story about a Chinese cook Cheng. The title is Kinesisk Hämnd.  Those who read Swedish can understand that this story is a joke about the Chinese cook.  This time it stimulated a protest among Chinese, especially among those who are engaged in restaurant business and other businesses.

It is also well known that most Chinese in Sweden are engaged in restaurant businesses.  This story ridiculed the Chinese cook, even though it is an old Canadian story,  the Chinese cooks felt very angry about it because they felt it will bring negative side effect to their business, to the image of the Chinese people. They think it is an insult.

James Wang, Director of the Swedish Chinese Assistance Center and President of Swedish Chinese Federation of Industry and Commerce said this was a strong disrespect of Chinese people. In particular, it ridiculed the pronunciation of  the southern Chinese accent, it is rasist.

Lydia Liu, director of CSBC also thinks this is rasist action, she has written a protesting email to the editor of DN in Swedish.

Peter Liu, Manager of Restaurant China, also wrote email in Swedish to the editor of DN.

Zhou Yueyou, Ji Zhanyou and Wu Junbo who are  Directors of Chinese Cuisine Associations in Sweden also voiced their protests against DN’s report thinking that is very bias.

Some Chinese propose to hire lawyers to reserve the right of resorting to legal procedures if DN continues to have non-objective negative reports about Chinese in Sweden.

头条要闻, 文化卫生

影评：《晚会》一部令人深思的好电影

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北欧绿色邮报网影评：今天看了一部好电影《晚会》。是丹麦导演拍摄的，但是，演员全是英国口音，电影是关于英国的一个竞选议会女议员的妇女珍妮开一个家庭Party的故事。

故事一开始就是家里来了客人，男主人公比尔却好像是得了老年痴呆症，神情恍惚，目光呆滞。女主人珍妮光彩照人，一副女强人的样子。电影是黑白的。非常严肃，但是非常具有黑色幽默。

一对朋友先到，女人APRIL显然在家里占主导地位，不停地谴责德国裔丈夫。丈夫却温柔地对比尔微笑。期间，珍妮说你不能因为他的父辈是纳粹而依然恨他。

然后，又来了一对女同性恋朋友。女人已经怀孕，而且是三胞胎。是人工受精的结果。对象女人长的象女人，但是，行动象男人。

接着又来了一个男人叫汤姆。汤姆说他的爱人玛丽安暂时来不了。但是，他非常紧张，一进来就问厕所在哪里。原来，他带了一把手枪，是来报复杀人的。他先吸点儿毒品，为自己壮胆，但还是紧张的不得了。

等到他来到客厅的时候，人们都到了。这时，男主人比尔说，他想宣布一个消息。大家静听，比尔说，他被诊断得了绝症。就在这前一秒，珍妮还在和另外一个女人通信息说，没有你不能活。说明她有一个情人。

但是，听到老公得绝症的消息，她立即跪下，向比尔说，我决定不参加竞选了，我要照顾你。这些年我怎么不知道好好照顾你呢？女朋友说，你太热衷你的政治了，你好像不太在乎朋友关系。

此时，比尔说，我是在一家私人医院检查出来的。大家似乎有了希望，觉得私人医院不一定准。只是为了挣钱。

比尔说，我想临死前坦白一件事情，年轻时，我曾经和你的女朋友玛丽安有过关系，有一两年的关系，和这对女同性恋中扮演男角的马特也有过一两次关系，因为他们曾经住一个宿舍。

女主人珍妮一听，立即大发雷霆，给了老公一大巴掌。期间，汤姆本来想来杀他的情敌比尔，但看到珍妮那个样子，他决定把枪扔到垃圾桶。但这时鸡肉在烤箱里烧糊了，于是，珍妮去扔垃圾。看到了枪，并拿了回来。

这时，女同性恋的怀孕女子开始责骂对象，怎么能和比尔发生关系呢，真是太恶心了。

珍妮在厕所里大哭，女朋友April说，其实竞选议员也没啥意思。结果在珍妮让她进到厕所以后，她居然向珍妮表达了爱慕之情。

客厅里比尔精神好了一些，讲出了与三个女人有关系的历史，让汤姆格外愤怒，汤姆也给他一拳，尽管他是耶鲁大学的学者。德国朋友说，你这个奸商不应该这样对待一个有学问的学者教授。比尔也辩解说，你老婆不喜欢你的臭钱，她喜欢我这个没钱但有学问的人。结果汤姆把他打倒在地，但没想把他打死。所以看到他休克了，又赶紧抢救。就在这时，珍妮和朋友从厕所出来，看到丈夫躺在地上，珍妮立即给丈夫进行心脏起搏式抢救，使劲儿按压心脏，结果比尔真的醒了过来。

这时，门铃想了，是玛丽安来了，结果珍妮这回真的拿起手枪冲向门去，她说，玛丽安，你说你是爱我的……

中间有一句非常有意思的台词是德国人说的，当时，窗户的玻璃碎了，他说，那是通向门的窗户，不是通往心灵的窗户。

通篇台词非常紧凑幽默，彷佛是赵本山的小品一样天衣无缝，但又是标准地道的英音，尽管马特是美国人。最后，在比尔休克的时候，德国男人对比尔的动作，又好像他们俩也有恋情似的。

整部电影让人看了情不自禁地捧腹大笑，同时，也能感觉到这种黑色幽默在扣问良心，扣问道德，扣问我们的价值观，男人到底是不是男人，女人到底是不是女人，男人和女人到底是什么关系，妇女解放，女权主义，最终结果是什么？一系列的问题都被提了出来。

或许这就是现实的反应，最根本的又是知识分子的虚伪。这个比尔好像是英国病人，也可能是某个喜剧演员。

总之，这部电影很好看，好像我们的小品。这个Party可能也是双重含义，晚会或者是政党。

文化卫生, 文学

2017斯德哥尔摩国际电影节聚焦变化

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北欧绿色邮报网报道（记者陈雪霏）– 2017斯德哥尔摩国际电影节于11月8日开幕，到19日闭幕，总共有150部电影集中放映。

今年国际电影节的主题是变化。今年的铜马奖得主是美国影星Vanessa Redgrave，她得过奥斯卡奖，Emmy奖，Tony奖，这回是斯德哥尔摩终生成就奖。她导演的电影《大海的忧伤》将在颁奖期间放映。

今年也有好几部电影是关于中国的，例如《北京之王》，讲述北京父子俩酷爱放电影的故事。虽然生活困难，但非常愉快，为电影着迷。

电影《逍遥自在》是由耿军导演的。讲述的是东北人如何互设骗局，最后拷问良心的一部片子。还有周迅主演的《我们的时代必将到来》是安慧的第三部关于抗日战争时期的片子。此前她导演了《沦陷城市之爱》和汤唯主演的《黄金时代》（萧红的一生）。

敬请关注北欧绿色邮报网，将继续为您报道电影节。

China, Chinese circle, Indepth, Life

China Special Series–Chinese wears better than ever before

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By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 12(Greenpost)–No matter you travel in the subway or in a bus, you will see beautiful boys and girls wearing beautiful clothes.

 

Even in the countryside, the free market sells various kinds of beautiful clothes and the prices are not expensive.

All the people no matter old or young, they just wear very good clothes. In other words, very new clothes.

When I was a child, we learnt from Lei Feng, a role model for youth. He said he wore a pair of socks for 9 years. Nowadays people have a lot of clothes and people begin to change a lot too.

Women change much more than men. But some men are also good at changing and buying new clothes.

Some women even go to another extreme to have too much clothes.

Children’s clothes are also in a great variety.  China’s export actually started with textile industry.

In Marx’s words, clothes, food, house and travel are not a problem now.

According to Xi Jinping’s report at the 19th CPC National Congress,  among 1.3 billion people, now there are still four percent of the total population living under poverty line. That translates into 40 million people and that is four times more than the whole Swedish population.

Xi has promised that China will wipe out poverty in three years by 2020. That is a great goal and that will really mark China to enter a new era.

I was so glad to see this when I was in China two weeks ago.

China has changed greatly and is experiencing the great transformation. Green environment is the goal people strive for.

 

 

Business, China, Chinese circle, Environment, Indepth, Life, News, Opinion

Chinese Special Series–Chinese Housing enough for the next generation

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By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 12(Greenpost)– To be honest, I came from a poor farmer’s family. But now those who live in the countryside enjoy big house, bigger space.

My brother and sister both have about 100 square meters apartment.
Recently a woman from Qingdao, Shandong province told me that they live in a 150 square meters apartment just for two persons.

Many civil servants have bigger office areas and enjoy two or three apartments.

Even those who came from the countryside and later lived in the city can enjoy very big apartment, not just one.

China has built so many buildings, so many cars and so many bikes.

A great change now is that people live much better.

Beijing attracts architeks from all over the world and it is a test site for all the vanguard builders. I saw an instrument type of building in Chaoyang district.

The famous CCTV building is even more protruding.  Skyscrapers are everywhere. And in many provinces, counties and cities, there are many buildings built.

Many people in local areas even have much more houses than those in bigger cities.  Chinese people enjoy far better material enjoyment now than ever. But their time of course is much tighter than before. They work harder than before.

Business, China, Chinese circle, Exchange, Green-tech, Life, Scientific Research

Chinese Special Series–Fast train can benefit the whole world

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Stockholm, Nov. 12(Greenpost) — When China built fast train in 2008, I was astonished by Chinese accurate drivers and fantastic services in the Hexiehao or Harmony Train.

I used to take more than 8 hours from Beijing to Jinzhou by train. Now I fly back from Stockholm to Beijing by airplane through 8.5 hours. So sometimes I jokingly said that Stockholm is my backyard garden from my Beijing home.

This summer we went back to Beijing again.  Surprisingly it only takes half an hour from Beijing to Tianjin and only four and half hours from Tianjin to Shanghai. It used to take 12 hours.

We travelled around half of China from Tianjin to Shanghai, from Shanghai to Suzhou, just half an hour. From Suzhou to Beijing it just took four and half hours. From Shenyang to Dalian it only takes two hours. From Dalian to Jinzhou, it also jus took two hours.

There is wifi in the waiting room in Jinzhou Station and it was terribly clean and nice.  People can buy all kinds of snacks from all over China and people don’t have to be so crowded as before.

From the very beginning, I supported the idea of developing the fast train. It is absolutely great! People think it is expansive, but it is not expansive if people consider the overall benefit it brings to the society, to the business and to people’s health as well as wellbeing.

I strongly suggest Sweden build fast train. Maybe it is a better idea to join hands with Denmark and Norway to build fast train from north to south. Think of Chinese train from Harbin to Dalian, just five hours.  It is just perfect.

Think of people taking train just from Oslo to Denmark via Stockholm or surrounding Solna or Uppsala just by four hours or from Oslo to Stockholm just one hour! It will bring a lot of human flow and it will bring a lot of vitality to our economy and people’s spirit.

Sweden has been very proud of its Tunnelbana because it starts from 1940s and the train has been very good in capacity. But now it need improvement.

I suggest Sweden use Chinese fast train technology and workers.  We shall benefit from it in the long run!

Now I do think Chinese fast train is the best in the world!

China, Chinese circle, culture, Life

China Special Series: Chinese food–the best food in the world

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By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 12(Greenpost) — In the early stage of China’s reform and opening up, even we Chinese ourselves felt we have been eating too much and felt we Chinese only pay attention to eating.

We used to joke about ourselves to say that our Chinese is an ethnic group that is good at eating.

Then I also began to travel around the world. I have been to Australia first and stayed in Sydney for half a year.  We cooked Chinese food every day and felt the China Town’s food was not bad.

Then I stayed in Zimbabwe for two years and cooked a lot myself and then I stayed in New Zealand for a year.  In London I stayed for four months and a couple of weeks in the US and Canada as well as Spain and other Nordic countries.

I boasted to have travelled all over the world and then came back to China, I felt the Chinese food is the best in the world.

This summer I and my family travelled to Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Suzhou, Jinzhou, Shenyang and Dalian.  Wherever we went, we tasted very good Chinese food.

In Shanghai we have the delicate green vegetables and many other kinds of food.  In China, people do love food and food is the basis for all the other aspects of life, innovation, invention, high technology and so on.  Even if you produce space shuttle or a lot of cars, you still need to eat good food.

You spend about three hundred, you can have a whole table of good food and eat a full.  Coming back to Sweden, we have to come back to a single dish or very few fresh vegetables.

Chinese food is fresh with a lot of different kinds of vegetables. Chinese food is delicious.  Of course I know a lot of people are not used to Chinese food and don’t appreciate it because they are not used to it.

But comparatively speaking, I feel lucky to be able to eat Chinese food and I really think Chinese food is the best in the world because in the food there is a lot of culture and history as well as stories in them.  And for me the best food is the Tofo and cabbage in Northeast China.

Of course I shouldn’t be so narrow-minded, I think Swedish have a lot of kinds of food for herb use too, such as using plum or linfrö to cure certain diseases.  Chinese food too can be used as a kind of medicine to cure chronicle diseases.

Business, China, Chinese circle, culture, Life

Traditional Chinese Cuisine Delegation visit Sweden and Demark

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By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 12(Greenpost)– Traditional Chinese Cuisine Delegation of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China visited Sweden and Denmark recently.

Led by Lyu Jing from Jiangsu Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, the delegation includes Mr. Wei Xueyong, researcher from the office, Ms Gao Daiming, Wang Bin, Zhang Jun, Jin Fengbin and Shi Zhiyuan, Masters of Chinese Cuisine.

Lyu Jing said the purpose of the visit is to introduce traditional Chinese cuisine from Huaiyang, Yangzhou and Zhenjiang areas which is one of the four most famous cuisines in China. The other three famous cuisines are from Sichuan, Shandong and Guangdong provinces.

Ms Gao Daiming said she came from a traditional Chinese cuisine family. Among 400 kinds of famous cuisines in China, Huaiyang dishes account for over 70 percent,  up to 290 kinds which have more than 2000 years of history.

Wang Bin who opens cuisine school in Huaiyang area said the Chinese cuisines pay great attention to color, smell, taste and form which are also very good for health.

Huaiyang dishes pay great attention to the original taste of the food and dishes, thus keeping all the vitamins and proteins, good for health. It means the food is never overcooked.

The most famous dish is Lion’s Head which can be steamed and stewed.

The masters showed the local chef in how to make the best Chinese cuisine and indeed attracted about 60 chef to come to cook and over 100 food lovers to taste the gourmet.

The cuisine delegates stayed in Sweden for three days to prepare the food and to cook and teach and visit some places in Stockholm.

The activity was held in Jufu Yuan, Thai Restaurant in Upplands Vasby near Infra Scandic Hotel.  Jufu Yuan means a restaurant that gathers happiness.

Wang Yuli, Manager of Jufu Yuan Restaurant said he was happy to help organize this activity because it helps chefs from China and Sweden to exchange experiences and learn from each other.  In particular this Huaiyang Cuisine tastes very good and is just suitable for us.

After three days, the delegation left for Denmark to introduce one of the best cuisines in China.