Month: February 2023

Mandarin Drama in Netflix – Mom, Don’t Do That! (媽，別鬧了！Mā, bié nàole) &TW Drama Subtitle Analysis

by Cesar Hsu, posted in Mandarin TV Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnzugjZl7ZU Mom, Don't Do That! (媽，別鬧了！Mā, bié nàole) is an original Taiwanese series drama launched by Netflix, adapted from the novel "My Mom's Foreign Marriage"(《我媽的異國婚姻》) written by the author, Chen Mingmin(陳名珉). The plot describes a sixty-year-old mother who is looking for a second marriage spring after being widowed, which worries her two daughters. They embark … Continue reading Mandarin Drama in Netflix – Mom, Don’t Do That! (媽，別鬧了！Mā, bié nàole) &TW Drama Subtitle Analysis

Lyrics Analysis— 漂向北方Piāo xiàng běifāng, Stranger In the North, sung by 黃明志 Namewee Ft. 王力宏Wang Leehom

by Cesar Hsu, posted in Mandarin Song

"Stranger In the North" , released in 2016, is a song by Malaysian singer Namewee and Chinese-American singer Wang Leehom, which was included in Namewee(黃明志)'s 2016 "Asia Open to Traffic(亞洲通車)" album. This song tells the story of non-Beijingers' experiences of drifting north and relocating themselves in Beijing. It has attracted much attention because there are a huge quantity of migrant workers working in Beijing but from other Chinese provinces.