Thanksgiving is a time for food, fun and family. But for American expats in China - and their friends of other nationalities - Turkey Day becomes a bird of a different feather.
About.com offers several suggestions for Thanksgiving meals with Chinese characteristics.
As a young girl, Jiang Wenli dreamed of being a writer. The Best Actress at this October's Rome Film Festival recalls that her engineer father, who was always at his happiest in a bookstore, would buy her a classic novel for her birthday.
Set in a 10-year period from 1988, And the Spring Comes (Li Chun) is a story about dreams and reality. Wang Cailing (by Jiang Wenli), a 30-something woman in a small town called Baotou, in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, dreams of being an opera singer. Her goal is to perform, one day, in the opera houses of Paris.
Budding Chinese soprano Wang Ying is to hold a recital as part of celebrations marking the 210th anniversary of Franz Schubert, at the Golden Hall of Musikverein, in Vienna next Wednesday. The Vienna Volksoper Orchestra will accompany her, under the baton of Michael Tomaschek, chief conductor of the Vienna Johann Strauss Capelle.
In Journey to the West, one of the main protagonists, Monk Xuanzang, is chased by monsters who want to eat his flesh and thereby live forever. In the same fashion, directors appear to view classic Chinese novels as "monk's flesh" - timeless, precious and always popular among audiences.
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