China Century Jade
http://vimeo.com/19542550
Film: China Century Jade
Victoria, BC.
Felix Wong cooks.
Shanghai, China
Hong Kong, China
China Century Jade
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
China Century Jade
China Century Jade
http://vimeo.com/19542550
Film: China Century Jade
Victoria, BC.
Felix Wong cooks.
Shanghai, China
Hong Kong, China
China Century Jade
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
China Century Jade
My next video will be about China. This is the 100th Anniversary of the dissolution of the Chinese Monarchy to be replaced with Warlordism, an American style democratic experiment vis a vis Chiang Kai Shek and then followed by Mao Tse Tung's Communism.
Anyways, the story starts off with the main character starting off in Victoria BC. Somehow, I have not decided, either he goes online and sees an ad for English teacher in Hong Kong, or else his dying grandfather sends him on a mission to Hong Kong to get a jade carving that would be very valuable.
He goes to Hong Kong and sees the ornate scenery of the city, the neon signs all in Chinese writing. Eating noodles at a restaurant, also teaching English.
He finds the jade object, but loses it not once but a few times and a few times, he is narrowly close to having it returned to him, except he misses but finally, in a coincidence just as freakish as his near misses coincidences, he actually is reunited with it.
His time and the people he met in Hong Kong make him want to stay and he decides not to return to Canada.
Some time later, in the Hong Kong Library, he accidentally stumbles upon a history book. In the history book is a picture of a guard who is wearing that trinket.
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Scene 1:
Felix Wong: Chinese accent: My lem is Felix Wong. I am a Chinese who is living in a city in Canada. I work at a Chinese restaurant as a cook.
I am at the old age home visiting my grandfather. He is very old. He is 100 years old. He has been living here for 3 years. The old age home is a very nice one because my grandfather is very rich.
Grandfather: Speaking Cantonese: English subtitles: I am very old, however, the doctors say that I will still live for another few years. I want to be buried with my valuable jade amulet. It was given to me a long time ago by my cooking Instructor.
Cooking Teacher to student: Cantonese: English subtitles: Here, this is a jade amulet because you have graduated.
Grandfather narrating: Still using Cantonese: English subtitles: I worked in Shanghai and then in 1957, I got a visa to Canada and I emigrated to Toronto where I worked for a few years with Chef Wong at the Driftwood Inn. Before I left China, I went to Hong Kong and had left the amulet with my female cousin to take care of. That amulet is now in the house of my cousin. The people living in that house now are her grandchildren.
You have to go to Hong Kong to get that amulet for me!
Chapter 2
Felix: Chinese accent: The plane ride to Hong Kong was very comfortable.
On the plane, I read a magazine.
In the magazine, was an article which the title was "100 Years of China".
Narrating the article, in a British accent: 1911. China was a wonderous and mysterious land. The Manchus had kept watch over China's Imperial Throne for about Three Hundred Years.
A young 5 year old Princeling had recently been installed as the head of State three years earlier. At his Coronation, he was referred to as The Lord of Ten Thousand Years. His rule would not last even ten years.
Societal forces in the land of China had accumulated to the point where they fomented in the form of Revolution.
Guns, quick thinking and an angry populace demanding change had changed the old ways of the Imperial Forbidden City Forever.
In 1911, The Chinese Imperial House had dissolved and China had henceforth become a Republic.
Opening Title sequence: Noble Films presents. China Century Jade.
Chapter 3:
Felix: Chinese accent again: Arriving in Hong Kong was wonderful. I had not been to this city in a long time. It is much more busier than my home town in Canada. There were streets signs everywhere all competing for your attention.
Hong Kong is a very beautiful city.
When I got to my grandfather's cousin's house, she was not there. I was greeted by her three grandchildren.
Grandchild, Cantonese: "Grandma will be home soon."
My grandfather's cousin had arrived. She was an old lady, but she looked very much like she does in a photograph of her.
Me, in Cantonese: "Do you have the jade amulet?"
She, in Cantonese, "Wait a minute."
She had given me the jade amulet that my grandfather sent me here for.
I was staying at a hotel. The desk clerk asked, [in Cantonese,] "Do you have anything to leave in the hotel safe?"
When the desk clerk saw the jade amulet, he said, [in Cantonese:]"Wow! That is beautiful!"
I spent a few days walking around the streets of Hong Kong. I drank coconut milk from a real coconut. I saw the sights of the city.
I got the jade amulet from the hotel to look at one evening during dinner. I left the jade amulet on the table when I went to the washroom to wash my hands.
When I went back to the table, it was gone.
I spent the next day still touring Hong Kong including the boat ride at Victoria Harbor, but I could not fully enjoy the sightseeing because I thought of the missing amulet.
When I got back to the hotel, I went to my room and I saw a note on the door that I was to report to hotel security. I was really worried. Security. This does not sound good.
When I got to the security office, the security guard had presented me with my missing jade amulet. The desk clerk had noticed it sitting on the table and wanted to hold on to it to protect it. He left it with the security guard with a note to look for me.
I left Hong Kong with a very good feeling.
On the flight back to Canada, I saw another article in a magazine dated January 2011, about China's Century.
"In 1911, Nationalist Leader Sun Yat Sen's Nationalist troops had stormed the Forbidden City. They looted the Imperial compound and stole many priceless treasures. Amongst the largesse procured was this priceless jade amulet which was owned by many past Kings of China. The amulet offered Heavenly protection to the Emperor who was often referred to as The Lord of Heaven.
When I got back to the old age home where my grandfather was staying at, the nurse told me that he had died. She also said, "He left me a note to pass along to you."
I read the note my grandfather had left me, it was written in his handwriting and it was written in English. All it said was, "The Jade is for you."
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Anyways, the story starts off with the main character starting off in Victoria BC. Somehow, I have not decided, either he goes online and sees an ad for English teacher in Hong Kong, or else his dying grandfather sends him on a mission to Hong Kong to get a jade carving that would be very valuable.
He goes to Hong Kong and sees the ornate scenery of the city, the neon signs all in Chinese writing. Eating noodles at a restaurant, also teaching English.
He finds the jade object, but loses it not once but a few times and a few times, he is narrowly close to having it returned to him, except he misses but finally, in a coincidence just as freakish as his near misses coincidences, he actually is reunited with it.
His time and the people he met in Hong Kong make him want to stay and he decides not to return to Canada.
Some time later, in the Hong Kong Library, he accidentally stumbles upon a history book. In the history book is a picture of a guard who is wearing that trinket.
________________________________________________________________________
Scene 1:
Felix Wong: Chinese accent: My lem is Felix Wong. I am a Chinese who is living in a city in Canada. I work at a Chinese restaurant as a cook.
I am at the old age home visiting my grandfather. He is very old. He is 100 years old. He has been living here for 3 years. The old age home is a very nice one because my grandfather is very rich.
Grandfather: Speaking Cantonese: English subtitles: I am very old, however, the doctors say that I will still live for another few years. I want to be buried with my valuable jade amulet. It was given to me a long time ago by my cooking Instructor.
Cooking Teacher to student: Cantonese: English subtitles: Here, this is a jade amulet because you have graduated.
Grandfather narrating: Still using Cantonese: English subtitles: I worked in Shanghai and then in 1957, I got a visa to Canada and I emigrated to Toronto where I worked for a few years with Chef Wong at the Driftwood Inn. Before I left China, I went to Hong Kong and had left the amulet with my female cousin to take care of. That amulet is now in the house of my cousin. The people living in that house now are her grandchildren.
You have to go to Hong Kong to get that amulet for me!
Chapter 2
Felix: Chinese accent: The plane ride to Hong Kong was very comfortable.
On the plane, I read a magazine.
In the magazine, was an article which the title was "100 Years of China".
Narrating the article, in a British accent: 1911. China was a wonderous and mysterious land. The Manchus had kept watch over China's Imperial Throne for about Three Hundred Years.
A young 5 year old Princeling had recently been installed as the head of State three years earlier. At his Coronation, he was referred to as The Lord of Ten Thousand Years. His rule would not last even ten years.
Societal forces in the land of China had accumulated to the point where they fomented in the form of Revolution.
Guns, quick thinking and an angry populace demanding change had changed the old ways of the Imperial Forbidden City Forever.
In 1911, The Chinese Imperial House had dissolved and China had henceforth become a Republic.
Opening Title sequence: Noble Films presents. China Century Jade.
Chapter 3:
Felix: Chinese accent again: Arriving in Hong Kong was wonderful. I had not been to this city in a long time. It is much more busier than my home town in Canada. There were streets signs everywhere all competing for your attention.
Hong Kong is a very beautiful city.
When I got to my grandfather's cousin's house, she was not there. I was greeted by her three grandchildren.
Grandchild, Cantonese: "Grandma will be home soon."
My grandfather's cousin had arrived. She was an old lady, but she looked very much like she does in a photograph of her.
Me, in Cantonese: "Do you have the jade amulet?"
She, in Cantonese, "Wait a minute."
She had given me the jade amulet that my grandfather sent me here for.
I was staying at a hotel. The desk clerk asked, [in Cantonese,] "Do you have anything to leave in the hotel safe?"
When the desk clerk saw the jade amulet, he said, [in Cantonese:]"Wow! That is beautiful!"
I spent a few days walking around the streets of Hong Kong. I drank coconut milk from a real coconut. I saw the sights of the city.
I got the jade amulet from the hotel to look at one evening during dinner. I left the jade amulet on the table when I went to the washroom to wash my hands.
When I went back to the table, it was gone.
I spent the next day still touring Hong Kong including the boat ride at Victoria Harbor, but I could not fully enjoy the sightseeing because I thought of the missing amulet.
When I got back to the hotel, I went to my room and I saw a note on the door that I was to report to hotel security. I was really worried. Security. This does not sound good.
When I got to the security office, the security guard had presented me with my missing jade amulet. The desk clerk had noticed it sitting on the table and wanted to hold on to it to protect it. He left it with the security guard with a note to look for me.
I left Hong Kong with a very good feeling.
On the flight back to Canada, I saw another article in a magazine dated January 2011, about China's Century.
"In 1911, Nationalist Leader Sun Yat Sen's Nationalist troops had stormed the Forbidden City. They looted the Imperial compound and stole many priceless treasures. Amongst the largesse procured was this priceless jade amulet which was owned by many past Kings of China. The amulet offered Heavenly protection to the Emperor who was often referred to as The Lord of Heaven.
When I got back to the old age home where my grandfather was staying at, the nurse told me that he had died. She also said, "He left me a note to pass along to you."
I read the note my grandfather had left me, it was written in his handwriting and it was written in English. All it said was, "The Jade is for you."
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