#lanfang

[nationcats]

NationCats Flag Cards - Lanfang Republic

[zegalba]

Hand Gestures of the Legendary Peking Opera Master Mei Lanfang (梅蘭芳)

[cool-nataliasanchez-stuff]

El arte de la ópera de Pekín

¡Hola! Aprovechando que en breve sale mi nueva novela, voy a hablaros de una de mis obsesiones. Me refiero a la ópera de Pekín, por supuesto. Por si no lo sabéis,  es un arte escénico considerado un tesoro nacional chino que combina música, danza, arte escénico y acrobacias en un espectáculo vibrante y colorido. Con sus característicos maquillajes faciales, trajes elaborados y movimientos…

[viaheavensandorhells]

...my way:

'Goodness [or even] the idea of Goodness, in reality, is a whole system of ideas and feelings It is this system that I maintain, perfectly uniform, perceived simultaneously in its entirety #wholeness - maintaining it without words, without images, in an antidiscursive conception, as a unique, simple entity. Maintaining it - to then, and finally, withdraw again to the world of words, to return ultimately (but retempered, made more conscious, remade, so to speak) to ordinary life'

#AldousHuxley #EyelessInGaza

pic by Mr. Mei Lanfang

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[virtuallghosts]

— Já imaginou em ter ancestrais fofoqueiros? Então....

[cometchasr]

we will stick to the south chinese/malay theme (of course)

i am going to give the pmd continents names better than "water/air/grass/mist continent"

[scalllions]

my ocs lanfang (he/him) and xiaoyun (they/them) 

[seadragon-sailing]

I must ask the mod:

Do you have voice headcanons and/or claims for your characters?

Alright! This one's gonna be a doozy for ya girl here because it seems like in any AU I put my main OCs in, I have to really make sure that their voices suit how they sound in my head as well as their mannerisms and what languages they use (the language I try to do my best with, but it mainly comes down to the sound of the voice more than anything).  In this case, I think only Feng and Tamara get their usual Voice-Claims which will be listed in this post because they ALWAYS sound a certain way to me that I can never seem to let go of.

Unfortunately, because of my dumb ass messing up the format of this post, I’ll have to put links to video clips or even audio clips instead ^^;; Sorry, everyone!

I’m gonna put the rest of the stuff under the cut because... Oooooh, it’s a bit of a mess. I’m so sorry!

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Kyung's Voice-Claim: CoCo Lee

English Speaking: (X)

Cantonese (I’m pretty sure it is, I think...) Speaking: (X)

Fun fact: Originally, I was going to go with Kelly Chen, mainly for her singing voice in her rendition of “Reflection” from Mulan due to it sounding more like how I would imagine Kyung’s singing voice would be like in this AU, but I’m glad I did some more digging!  I love CoCo Lee’s energy, her laugh and how she can sound a little more silly at times!

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Shinju’s Voice-Claim: Maggie Cheung

English Speaking: (X)

Cantonese Speaking: (X)

Fun fact: I’m quite happy that I dug more for this one rather than just going with Lucy Liu like I had originally planned.  Her regular speaking voice is honestly perfect when I imagine how Shinju speaks in this AU!

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Feng’s Voice-Claim: Kevin Michael Richardson

(Primarily his role as Captain Gantu from Lilo & Stitch)

Gantu clips: (X)

Fun fact: I genuinely tried to find a proper Cantonese actor that sounded close enough, but goddamnit- It’s hard finding voices with that distinct gravelly baritone I always imagine Feng talking in.

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Tamara’s Voice-Claim: Angela Bassett

Audio Sample Compilation (it’s the same VC as she has in the Oddworld!AU and in the “Mainverse”): (X)

Singing Sample: (X)

Same Voice-Claim for the most part, except I’m deciding Tamara won’t need a designated singing VC like her other AU counterparts.

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Luka’s Voice-Claim: Michael Fassbender

English and German Sample: (X)

French Speaking Sample: (X)

UUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH- This one gave me a lot of hell.  So, as much as Luka is fluent in Cantonese in this AU, he’s a primarily English speaker with his native language being German, his secondary being French, and him being able to do decent Spanish.  I was also VERY picky about how the voices sounded because Luka, in my mind, sounds a little more higher-pitched and gentle in a way.  

Fun fact: I was originally going to go with Timothée Chalamet because his English and French give me more Luka vibes, but I think it’s mainly because of how much of a hilarious dork the dude is.

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Lee’s Voice-Claim: Harry Shum Jr. (Speaking), Li Yugang (Opera/Singing)

English and Cantonese Sample: (X)

Opera/Singing (Decided to go with this vid since he sings both is his regular male voice, and the one he uses for his Dan roles): (X)

Li Yugang also played as Consort Yu in his performance of Farewell My Concubine here: (X) Li Yugang appears at the 2:28 mark.

I think the only problem I ran into was getting super specific on trying to find Cantonese Opera actors who performed Dan roles, which seemed to leave me with nothing, or just circling around back to Peking Opera or general Chinese Opera as a whole. QQ

Fun Fact: I was originally going to just go with the usual VC I have for him (Aurelio Voltaire), but because of the setting the AU takes please (it being more historical) and given his career as a Chinese Opera performer, I had to really dig for this one.  I would have gone with the famous Mei Lanfang, but it was even more difficult to find good samples for my notes.  That being said, I at least found a pretty good clip of Mei Lanfang both singing and speaking in a Dan role: (X)

[sarahwang11]

Stepping into the hall is like stepping through the annals of history. Mei Lanfang, Sun Juxian, Shang Xiaoyun...Many renowned artists graced this stage.

#Tianjin #CulturalRelicsinTianjin

[berrymeter]

ms wang was so cool. it didn't feel like it bc to us she was just our professor but she's like a renowned person in the theatre world in china. wrote basically the only book i can find about mei lanfang. in french anyway. funniest thing she ever did was tell us to buy the book without telling us she wrote it & i had to find that out by reading it

[lamilanomagazine]

Desio, al via da sabato 27 maggio la II^ Biennale Museo Scalvini

Sabato 27 maggio 2023 alle ore 16.00 avrà luogo al Museo Scalvini l’opening della II^ Biennale Omaggio al Maestro Scalvini. In tale occasione ci sarà anche la cerimonia di premiazione. Alla Biennale, a cura di Cristiano Plicato, direttore del Museo Scalvini, e organizzata in collaborazione con MA-EC Gallery e con Hearty Souls (Beijing) Culture Creative Industry Development Co.,Ltd, verranno esposti oltre 60 lavori di artisti provenienti da Germania, Francia, Giappone, Romania, Italia e Cina, selezionati tra le tante proposte arrivate. Differenti anche le tecniche, i linguaggi e le forme espressive dispiegate da questi artisti per esprimere diversi concetti e valori legati alle sfere della vita e della morte, del corpo e del paesaggio, dell’intimità e della collettività, della storia e del presente, e alle tematiche più cruciali dell’attualità, dalla guerra all’incomunicabilità sociale, dalla catastrofe ambientale ai Buchi neri. In esposizione dipinti a olio, sculture, fotografie. SABRINA AURELI LUCA BALLESTRA LUCIO BARLASSINA NOVELLA BELLORA HORST BEYER JIANG BO / MENGYU LIU FORTUNATO BOFFI ALESSANDRO BOTTI ALESSANDRO BRUNELLO VITTORIO BRUNELLO XIAOHUA CAI CHANGHUAN CHEN ZHANG CHUANG GIORGIO COTTINI FRANCESCO CUCCI WANTIAN CUI LUCA CURONE MARIA PATRIZIA EPIFANIA CHEN FANG WANG FEI GRAZIA GABBINI ZHIDING GAO IGOR GRIGOLETTO ALESSANDRO GRIMOLDIEU MARZIA HARSHAL BIANCATO KANG KE ZHU LEI ANGELA MARGHERITA LEOTTA ZHANG LI CHIALIANG LIN LANFANG LIU CARLO MADOGLIO GIUSEPPE MATRASCIA ORIELLA MONTIN SIMONA MORONI EMILIA PERSENICO EDDY PETTENÒ OLGA POLICHTCHOUK WENCHUAN PU ZHANG RONG CAMELIA ROSTOM LAVINIA ROTOCOL KAI RUI GIUSEPPE SALMOIRAGHI TIZIANA SANTOLI EMANUELE SCILLERI CRISTINA SIRIZZOTTI HUAWEI TANG AGOSTINO TULUMELLO XUNMU WU ZHAOPING XU RAFOO YANG SHUWEN YANG KOMADA YOSHIYUKI WANG YUN MAOSHEN ZENG CHEN ZHONG HAIXIONG ZHONG La mostra sarà visitabile nei giorni 25, 26 e 28 maggio dalle 10.30 alle 12.30 e dalle 15.30 alle 18.00 Sabato 27 maggio sarà possibile accedere all’opening delle 16.00 muniti di VIP PASS da richiedere al numero 3495134975 Museo Giuseppe Scalvini Villa Tittoni Cusani Traversi, Via Lampugnani 66, Desio... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[resonantwave]

❝ as roupas são bem caracteristicas. ❞ é claro que não vai revelar como de fato reconhece Furina. ❝ é mais quente sim, o mar e as montanhas ajudam nesse caso. Fontaine tem mais plánices e, bom, muita água. ❞ deveria tirar um tempo para visitar outras nações. ❝ temos diversos tipos de apresentações, de óperas a teatro. Xinyan, Yun'jin, Li Mei Lanfang... tem diversos contadores de histórias também. as vezes recebos pessoas de outras nações para alguns de nossos festivais. acredito que irá gostar mesmo que sejam diferentes dos de Fontaine. ❞

❝ meu nome é Zhongli, qual seria o seu? ❞

Furina ia falar, mas aí piscou algumas vezes. — Ai tá muito na cara que vim de Fontaine, quero comprar umas roupas por aqui, até porque Liyue é com certeza mais quente de Fontaine. Lá é quente e fresco ao mesmo tempo, é uma maravilha. — Enche a boca pra falar de Fontaine. — O que pode me falar sobre as apresentações daqui? Tenho interesse em ver. Teatro, canto, um pouco de dança são coisas que fascinam.

[dadodo]

Paintings by Mei Lanfang - ca. 1940s

[expedientesinico]

Covid-19. Autoridades chinesas confinam cidade de Langfang

Covid-19. Autoridades chinesas confinam cidade de Langfang

As autoridades da província de Hebei, no nordeste da República Popular da China, decretaram esta terça-feira o confinamento dos 4,9 milhões de residentes da cidade de Langfang, para evitar que o coronavírus se continue a espalhar pela região, situada nas imediações de Pequim. Além de Langfang, também estão em quarentena a capital da província, Shijiazhuang, e Xingtai, outra cidade de Hebei, de…

[garlandedspirits]

Some stunning photographs of Mei Lanfang (ca. 1920′s)

[sandeebridges]

I have a fully translated historical article on the Lanfang Republic and a renewed fixation on Asian culture and history

it’s just gone midnight and I’m getting sucked into a rabbit hole of history articles from an Indonesian politics site

this doesn’t bode well for my mental state :]