Chinese language hot in American TV series

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Chinese language hot in American TV series, and Sheldon saying Chinese is "cute and amazing"

In recent years, American television programs have topped the most popular TV show in Chinese young people's world. There is a group of people who know English or want to learn English by the series. Meanwhile, when the American series became popularity, the public noticed that more and more Chinese language are put into the programs.

Classical Chinese elements

If you are a big fan of American TV shows, you could see many Chinese words like "Chinese Kung-fu". Besides, as more and more Chinese are attracted by American shows, many fresh Chinese elements have been put into them. Jack Shephard in "Lost" has a four-Chinese-character tattoos (simplified Chinese: 鹰击长空; pinyin: Yīng jī chángkōng) from a poem written by Mao Zedong in 1925. Fox's tattoos translate into "Eagles high up, cleaving the space". "The Big Bang Theory", which is maybe the most popular one in China, has a canned program every Wednesday: having Chinese take-out from a Sichuan restaurant downstairs. The actors usually use Chopsticks to discuss the choice between Kung Pao chicken and prawn in oyster sauce and dumplings. In Season 7 Sheldon wears a T shirt with a Chinese word 中 (pinyin: zhong) which became a hot product for fans.

Against the background that more Chinese elements are put into American TV series, executive director of the Center for Public Communication & Social Development at Peking University, Yun Guoqiang said "American showsare a part of American culture industrial system, which is a special industrial product seeking global communication. It is a normal thing of putting Chinese element into the show. In Chinese people's eyes, in a sense, the U.S. represents modern Western civilization, while in the imagination of American people, China is a part of the East, which is mysterious. Chinese elements could meet the imagination of the local people on the mysterious oriental country."

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