Chinese New Year (February 18, 2007)

Happy Chinese New Year! Check out our Chinese New Year Celebration Box, as well as these videos to get ready for the Year of the Pig (or Boar).

Want to learn more about China or check out some Chinese films, literature, and music?

Use the Movies & TV Programs (fiction video) Media Finder to try some movies from China (select China/Hong Kong under origin) or movies set in China (select China under country in the setting section).

Find some Chinese literature to read by going to the Fiction & Literature Media Finder and selecting Chinese under original language of literature. Combine this with the prose, short stories, poetry, or plays checkboxes to narrow your search. To find Chinese folktales, it works better to choose China from the country list under setting and then check folklore & religious stories. Or find children's literature about China by choosing youth under audience and China from the countries under setting. Change to 10-39 p. under audience and check prose to narrow your focus to little kids' stories.

Why not listen to some Chinese music? From the World Music Finder, select China under country and limit to recordings under format. Or limit to criticism & history under format to find out more about Chinese music.

Check out our VHS and DVD videos on China from the Videorecordings (All) Media Finder. We have titles ranging from The art of architecture in China and Feng shui : environments for success and well-being to Management in Chinese cultures to The tank man, a documentary about a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square and Zhang’s diner, a documentary about the challenges faced by a Chinese couple who illegally move from their rural hometown to Beijing.

If you get really ambitious, you can even check out our Chinese language instruction from the Software & Electronic Games or Audiobooks & Other Spoken Recordings Media Finders.