Dr. Ashkan
I love animations and action movies that are based in china and have chinese culture. Also all books.
Answer
Well, if you want to learn Chinese culture by movies, I recommendï¼
ãæè¿ä¸è¾åã Flashbacks of My Life
ãæ¢å±±ä¼¯ä¸ç¥è±å°ãThe Romance Of Liang Shangbo And Zhu YingTai
ãç²¾æ¦é¨ã Fists of Fury
ãé³åç¿ççæ¥åãIn the Heat of the Sun
ãé¸çå«å§¬ãWho Shot Farewell My Concubine
ã红é«ç²±ãRed Sorghum
Books are countless. And the most classical ones are The Four Books and Five Classics. The Four Books are Chinese classic texts that Zhu Xi selected, in the Song dynasty, as an introduction to Confucianism: the Great Learning (大å¦), the Doctrine of the Mean (ä¸åº¸), the Analects of Confucius (论è¯), and the Mencius (åå). The Five Classics is a corpus of five ancient Chinese books used by Confucianism as the basis of studies. According to tradition, they were compiled or edited by Confucius himself. They are Classic of Changes (æç»), Classic of Poetry (è¯ç»), Classic of Rites (礼记), Classic of History (书ç»), and Spring and Autumn Annals (æ¥ç§). Hope I have helped you out.
If you are interested in learning Chinese culture and want to know more about it, you can visit http://www.echineselearning.com/resources/index.html.
If you still have any question related to how to learn Chinese, you can ask me at jennifer.zhu@echineselearning.com (www.eChineseLearning.com). I will be glad to help you.-Jennifer
Well, if you want to learn Chinese culture by movies, I recommendï¼
ãæè¿ä¸è¾åã Flashbacks of My Life
ãæ¢å±±ä¼¯ä¸ç¥è±å°ãThe Romance Of Liang Shangbo And Zhu YingTai
ãç²¾æ¦é¨ã Fists of Fury
ãé³åç¿ççæ¥åãIn the Heat of the Sun
ãé¸çå«å§¬ãWho Shot Farewell My Concubine
ã红é«ç²±ãRed Sorghum
Books are countless. And the most classical ones are The Four Books and Five Classics. The Four Books are Chinese classic texts that Zhu Xi selected, in the Song dynasty, as an introduction to Confucianism: the Great Learning (大å¦), the Doctrine of the Mean (ä¸åº¸), the Analects of Confucius (论è¯), and the Mencius (åå). The Five Classics is a corpus of five ancient Chinese books used by Confucianism as the basis of studies. According to tradition, they were compiled or edited by Confucius himself. They are Classic of Changes (æç»), Classic of Poetry (è¯ç»), Classic of Rites (礼记), Classic of History (书ç»), and Spring and Autumn Annals (æ¥ç§). Hope I have helped you out.
If you are interested in learning Chinese culture and want to know more about it, you can visit http://www.echineselearning.com/resources/index.html.
If you still have any question related to how to learn Chinese, you can ask me at jennifer.zhu@echineselearning.com (www.eChineseLearning.com). I will be glad to help you.-Jennifer
I have some great ideas for books or movies?
heavenlee2
I Have a lot of short stories typed down in my Word Documents which could be turned into long books. Whom do I trust with my ideas, that would not steal them? I can date stamp them but if they have a great computer genius he could very well pre-date that stamp so how would I go about this and would anyone have any suggestions about which publicist I could use (preferably australian)???? I know I have not read anything like what I have written ( and I read a lot since I was five yrs old) but eventually someone will come up with the idea like I had the idea for dinosaurs coming to life well before the movie came out as I use to tell my kids this story all the time. Help please and thankyou anyone who can help? Maybe I need an agent before trying anything at all????
Answer
You're probably not ready to publish until you get rid of your paranoia. Ideas are a dime a dozen and that's the reason ideas can't be copyrighted. You and someone you've never talked to can come up with the same idea and similar plot. The difference will be how you both execute the plot and in the end they will read like different stories. And, no offense, but agents all the time get writers who say their idea has never been done before and when the agent reads what the book is about they can name off a handful of books with the same idea, thus making the writer look unread and unprofessional.
Your dinosaur example is exactly the reason why ideas can't be copyrighted, as you've already noted others can come up with the exact same idea without ever talking to each other. You might have been telling your kids those stories long before the movie came out, but movies aren't made overnight. They're planned years in advance and it takes many years for most movies to get the green light for production (most never will), so there's no way for you to know who came up with the idea first. I have no idea what dinosaur movie youre talking about, but you do know this concept has been around since before I was born and I'm well into my 30s (I'm not that old, I know). Hmm I wonder when Godzilla was first released, because that is after all a dinosaur. I'm not trying to belittle you or your ideas, just saying.
I suggest you not post any of your work online or send it off to anyone until you've done a lot of research into literary theft. It seems like you might worry yourself to death wondering if someone will steal your idea. Though, again, ideas can't be stolen since they can't be copyrighted. And, yes, someone can take your idea and write their own unique story based on it. That's very legal. What they can't do is take YOUR execution of the story and pretend its their own. I like to use this example since I'm a huge fan of this trope and have read a lot of these types of books. Take the vampire phase from a few years back. The shelves were full of vampire books. Many of them were similar in plot, but if you actually read them you'd actually notice that each story was different in it's own right. Most stories written (regardless of genre) will have similar elements to stories that were published before it. Take the Harry Potter series and Lord of the Rings for example, and the Magicians. The Magic School Bus. You''ll see similarities between all of these books. Many people believe their are fewer than 11 original ideas and everything else is a twist on one of those 11, including your own ideas.
Enough of my rambling. Anyway, good luck. I think your biggest hurdle is getting over your paranoia. You wont' find an agent who represents short story collections by unknown writers (unless you have a finished novel, too). This is because short story collections don't sell well so publishers aren't buying them unless you're an established writer (Stephen King, for example). You might can find an ebook only publisher that will publish your short stories, though, but not a print publisher. If it's the short story collection you want to publish then try to get your name out there by getting a few published in tier 1 magazines and this will increase your chances.
If you want to write your shorts into longer novels then start writing them. No one will give you the time of day unless you have a completed and polished novel ready to go. Right now, I get the sense that you haven't written them into novels. If not, then no agent or publisher can do anything for you right now. If by chance you come across an agent or publisher who is interested in your unfinished novels or your short story collection then consider that a red flag and run the other way. Don't worry about a publicists until you have a publishing contract signed or unless you know that you're going to self-publish. Good luck.
The Australian market is very small, so if you don't have success there then don't be afraid to branch out into other markets like the US or UK (US is the biggest publishing market) - assuming your book will appeal to readers in those countries.
You're probably not ready to publish until you get rid of your paranoia. Ideas are a dime a dozen and that's the reason ideas can't be copyrighted. You and someone you've never talked to can come up with the same idea and similar plot. The difference will be how you both execute the plot and in the end they will read like different stories. And, no offense, but agents all the time get writers who say their idea has never been done before and when the agent reads what the book is about they can name off a handful of books with the same idea, thus making the writer look unread and unprofessional.
Your dinosaur example is exactly the reason why ideas can't be copyrighted, as you've already noted others can come up with the exact same idea without ever talking to each other. You might have been telling your kids those stories long before the movie came out, but movies aren't made overnight. They're planned years in advance and it takes many years for most movies to get the green light for production (most never will), so there's no way for you to know who came up with the idea first. I have no idea what dinosaur movie youre talking about, but you do know this concept has been around since before I was born and I'm well into my 30s (I'm not that old, I know). Hmm I wonder when Godzilla was first released, because that is after all a dinosaur. I'm not trying to belittle you or your ideas, just saying.
I suggest you not post any of your work online or send it off to anyone until you've done a lot of research into literary theft. It seems like you might worry yourself to death wondering if someone will steal your idea. Though, again, ideas can't be stolen since they can't be copyrighted. And, yes, someone can take your idea and write their own unique story based on it. That's very legal. What they can't do is take YOUR execution of the story and pretend its their own. I like to use this example since I'm a huge fan of this trope and have read a lot of these types of books. Take the vampire phase from a few years back. The shelves were full of vampire books. Many of them were similar in plot, but if you actually read them you'd actually notice that each story was different in it's own right. Most stories written (regardless of genre) will have similar elements to stories that were published before it. Take the Harry Potter series and Lord of the Rings for example, and the Magicians. The Magic School Bus. You''ll see similarities between all of these books. Many people believe their are fewer than 11 original ideas and everything else is a twist on one of those 11, including your own ideas.
Enough of my rambling. Anyway, good luck. I think your biggest hurdle is getting over your paranoia. You wont' find an agent who represents short story collections by unknown writers (unless you have a finished novel, too). This is because short story collections don't sell well so publishers aren't buying them unless you're an established writer (Stephen King, for example). You might can find an ebook only publisher that will publish your short stories, though, but not a print publisher. If it's the short story collection you want to publish then try to get your name out there by getting a few published in tier 1 magazines and this will increase your chances.
If you want to write your shorts into longer novels then start writing them. No one will give you the time of day unless you have a completed and polished novel ready to go. Right now, I get the sense that you haven't written them into novels. If not, then no agent or publisher can do anything for you right now. If by chance you come across an agent or publisher who is interested in your unfinished novels or your short story collection then consider that a red flag and run the other way. Don't worry about a publicists until you have a publishing contract signed or unless you know that you're going to self-publish. Good luck.
The Australian market is very small, so if you don't have success there then don't be afraid to branch out into other markets like the US or UK (US is the biggest publishing market) - assuming your book will appeal to readers in those countries.
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