#wang fangfang

[mxescargot]

Chinastuck: kids' accents/dialects/speech

most of these just correspond to where they live lmao. the rest of their typing is close to canon (emote usage etc) ill put context for how chinese texting slang works if anyone asks for it

John: the most typical beijing mandarin you ever heard. talks in a fairly enunciated manner. when typing, sometimes uses kaomoji, number abbreviations, and uppercase latin letter abbreviations. occasionally uses single tildes after normal punctuation like this!~

Rose: shanghainese + kinda accented mandarin. hears john is from beijing and is like TEACH ME HOW TO SOUND LIKE U

uses abbreviations very occasionally. will sometimes use lots of tildes after messages~~~

Dave: bro raised him primarily on chongqing dialect, and he picked up other stuff on the internet. nearly incomprehensible to the other kids when they meet irl. frequent english loanwords. types with lowercase latin letter abbreviations even though they're a pain in the ass to do on a chinese keyboard.

Jade: jin mandarin, picked up some mongolian from grandpa harley. types similar to john but more tildes and kaomoji

Jane: uses some antiquated/outdated phrases like in canon. also very standard beijing mandarin, less enunciated than john. tendency towards using multiple punctuation marks!?!?!

Roxy: what would one sound like growing up without hearing other humans. uses lots of abbreviations like in canon. mayhaps the lots of tildes is a lalonde thing~~~

with gender stuff i could see them referring to everyone as TA in writing unless asked otherwise

Dirk: again, what would one sound like growing up without hearing other humans. uses traditional and sometimes even archaic spellings, unlike every other kid (he isn't taiwanese; he's just dirk). occasional "ironic" kaomoji. semifrequent japanese loanwords, sometimes english loanwords.

Jake: uses frequent antiquated phrases like in canon. jin mandarin + mongolian. sounds and types sort of like john.

[ask-chinastuck]

// hi we're the kamino system (they/them) and this is our very self indulgent homestuck AU where the kids are Chinese instead of American. are we capable of running an askblog? no idea.

ask box: OPEN (beta kids only), 1 unanswered

m!a: none

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more info and rules under the cut!

NAMES USED (lastname firstname)

john/june: 光勇/小玉 (guang yong/xiaoyu)

rose: 刘秀兰 (liu xiulan)

dave/dove: 赵大伟 (zhao dawei/xinyan)

jade: 林玉平 (lin yuping)

jane: 王艳芳/敏敏 (wang yanfang (goes by fangfang)/minmin)

roxy: 刘天秀 (liu tianxiu)

dirk/doll: 赵强剑/雪莲 (zhao qiangjian/xuelian)

jake/lara: angli (sinicized as 洋格李 yang geli)/洋勞拉 (yang luola)

RULES ETC

asks may be in mandarin or english. responses will be in the language that the ask was in. as tumblr is a primarily english speaking website, chinese posts will include an english translation.

asks may choose to specify a character or not.

mod is a minor! turning 18 soon but still. keep things sfw, characters open to asks rn are all minors.

magic anons are allowed but we won’t necessarily comply with them.

ooc text will start with two forward slashes like above, i think this is pretty standard. posts will be tagged #ooc post.

this blog is generally lighthearted but may touch on the same range of content as homestuck. we’ll try to tag things appropriately.

[drmikewatts]

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 28, Issue 6

1) Multitask Linear Genetic Programming With Shared Individuals and Its Application to Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling

Author(s): Zhixing Huang, Yi Mei, Fangfang Zhang, Mengjie Zhang

Pages: 1546 - 1560

2) Evaluation of Frameworks That Combine Evolution and Learning to Design Robots in Complex Morphological Spaces

Author(s): Wei Li, Edgar Buchanan, Léni K. Le Goff, Emma Hart, Matthew F. Hale, Bingsheng Wei, Matteo De Carlo, Mike Angus, Robert Woolley, Zhongxue Gan, Alan F. Winfield, Jon Timmis, Agoston E. Eiben, Andy M. Tyrrell

Pages: 1561 - 1574

3) Quality Indicators for Preference-Based Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Using a Reference Point: A Review and Analysis

Author(s): Ryoji Tanabe, Ke Li

Pages: 1575 - 1589

4) GPU-Based Genetic Programming for Faster Feature Extraction in Binary Image Classification

Author(s): Rui Zhang, Yanan Sun, Mengjie Zhang

Pages: 1590 - 1604

5) A Unified Innovized Progress Operator for Performance Enhancement in Evolutionary Multi- and Many-Objective Optimization

Author(s): Sukrit Mittal, Dhish Kumar Saxena, Kalyanmoy Deb, Erik D. Goodman

Pages: 1605 - 1619

6) Bi-Population-Enhanced Cooperative Differential Evolution for Constrained Large-Scale Optimization Problems

Author(s): Puyu Jiang, Jun Liu, Yuansheng Cheng

Pages: 1620 - 1632

7) Transfer-Based Particle Swarm Optimization for Large-Scale Dynamic Optimization With Changing Variable Interactions

Author(s): Xiao-Fang Liu, Zhi-Hui Zhan, Jun Zhang

Pages: 1633 - 1643

8) Cooperative Co-Evolution for Large-Scale Multiobjective Air Traffic Flow Management

Author(s): Tong Guo, Yi Mei, Ke Tang, Wenbo Du

Pages: 1644 - 1658

9) Benchmarking Analysis of Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search

Author(s): Zeqiong Lv, Chao Qian, Yanan Sun

Pages: 1659 - 1673

10) Rapidly Evolving Soft Robots via Action Inheritance

Author(s): Shulei Liu, Wen Yao, Handing Wang, Wei Peng, Yang Yang

Pages: 1674 - 1688

11) A Semantic-Based Hoist Mutation Operator for Evolutionary Feature Construction in Regression

Author(s): Hengzhe Zhang, Qi Chen, Bing Xue, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Mengjie Zhang

Pages: 1689 - 1703

12) Exact and Metaheuristic Algorithms for Variable Reduction

Author(s): Aijuan Song, Guohua Wu, Ling Zhou, Ling Wang, Witold Pedrycz

Pages: 1704 - 1718

13) A Multiform Evolutionary Search Paradigm for Bilevel Multiobjective Optimization

Author(s): Yinglan Feng, Liang Feng, Sam Kwong, Kay Chen Tan

Pages: 1719 - 1732

14) Multitask Evolution Strategy With Knowledge-Guided External Sampling

Author(s): Yanchi Li, Wenyin Gong, Shuijia Li

Pages: 1733 - 1745

15) Compromising Pareto-Optimality With Regularity in Platform-Based Multiobjective Optimization

Author(s): Ritam Guha, Kalyanmoy Deb

Pages: 1746 - 1760

16) Genetic Programming for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling: Evolution With Single Individuals and Ensembles

Author(s): Meng Xu, Yi Mei, Fangfang Zhang, Mengjie Zhang

Pages: 1761 - 1775

17) Solution Transfer in Evolutionary Optimization: An Empirical Study on Sequential Transfer

Author(s): Xiaoming Xue, Cuie Yang, Liang Feng, Kai Zhang, Linqi Song, Kay Chen Tan

Pages: 1776 - 1793

18) Sustainable Scheduling of Distributed Flow Shop Group: A Collaborative Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Driven by Indicators

Author(s): Yuhang Wang, Yuyan Han, Yuting Wang, Quan-Ke Pan, Ling Wang

Pages: 1794 - 1808

19) Offline Data-Driven Optimization at Scale: A Cooperative Coevolutionary Approach

Author(s): Yue-Jiao Gong, Yuan-Ting Zhong, Hao-Gan Huang

Pages: 1809 - 1823

20) Balancing Different Optimization Difficulty Between Objectives in Multiobjective Feature Selection

Author(s): Zhenshou Song, Handing Wang, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang

Pages: 1824 - 1837

21) Noisy Evolutionary Optimization With Application to Grid-Based Persistent Monitoring

Author(s): Xiaoyu He, Xueyan Tang, Zibin Zheng, Yuren Zhou

Pages: 1838 - 1851

22) Evolutionary Multitasking for Multiobjective Feature Selection in Classification

Author(s): Jiabin Lin, Qi Chen, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang

Pages: 1852 - 1866

23) Grid Classification-Based Surrogate-Assisted Particle Swarm Optimization for Expensive Multiobjective Optimization

Author(s): Qi-Te Yang, Zhi-Hui Zhan, Xiao-Fang Liu, Jian-Yu Li, Jun Zhang

Pages: 1867 - 1881

[1handedecon]

FEDS Paper: Workplace Automation and Corporate Liquidity Policy

Thomas W. Bates, Fangfang Du, Jessie Jiaxu Wang Using an occupational probability of computerization, we measure a firm’s ability to replace labor with automated capital. Our evidence suggests that the potential to automate a workforce enhances operating flexibility, allowing firms to hold less precautionary cash. To provide evidence for this mechanism, we exploit the 2011–2012 Thailand hard drive crisis as an exogenous shock to the cost of automation. In addition, the negative relation between prospective automation and cash holdings is greater for firms with a lower expected cost of worker displacement and greater labor-induced operating leverage. from FRB: Working Papers https://ift.tt/R1CVkmG via IFTTT

[theincorrectroom]

Drama recommendations

Ok so I just finished watching meteor garden and accidentally in love and I love the bad boy goes soft for girl (si and shancai) (fangfang and yiyang) so if anyone has any recommendations based on this trope then please comment. I would prefer in a high school/college/university setting but I'm open to all and they can be from anywhere

[golden-china]

Second day of podium training at the 2018 Chinese Individual Nationals (2)

Yang Shuhan Du Siyu || Wang Jiarui Lu Yufei Jia Fangfang || Lu Yufei Zhou Ruiyu Wu Ziyue || Chen Linna Source: 体操光年

[cfensi]

Wang Leehom will steal all your tears in Forever Young

[fyhuangxiaoming]

Zhang Ziyi and Huang Xiaoming's lost film to release next year

The mysterious epic FOREVER YOUNG starring Zhang Ziyi will be unveiled in January 2018 - 6 years after the project was first announced.

A stellar cast of Zhang Ziyi, Huang Xiaoming, Leehom Wang, Chang Chen and Chen Chusheng attended a press conference on Wednesday in Beijing to announce the release date as Jan. 12 next year.

The film, written and directed by acclaimed writer-turned-director Li Fangfang, was originally planned to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Tsinghua University in 2011, with a budget of over 100 million yuan. The story covers four generations spanning a hundred years of modern Chinese history since World War II.

Actress Zhang Ziyi and actor Huang Xiaoming both mentioned in previous interviews that they cried after reading the script. By the end of 2012, the film had finished shooting but nothing has been heard since. Director Li commented in June 2014 that she is extremely meticulous about post-production and the film will be ready for release by the end of that year. However, it was not.

Sun Zhonghuai, CEO of Penguin Pictures and Vice President at Tencent Holdings Ltd., one of the film's producers, said the nearly 6-year wait has made this production "a legend" in Chinese film industry.

The past five years has witnessed great changes in the actors' personal life. When the cast members shot the film, they were all single. Now they are all married with children.

Huang Xiaoming added, "First I was attracted by the director's good script, then I was moved by her sincere creative work ethic, as she had researched and studied tens of thousands of historical photos and documents to reenact the historical details in her production. I believe a good film is like a good wine, the longer it takes to make the better it will taste."

Director Li Fangfang later joined the cast on the stage and praised them, "every one of them wanted to act as best as they can for their roles. We worked sincerely together and hope to tell a good story."

It is also worth noting that the film was shot in film stock and may be the last film in China produced this way as most film processing studios have closed as Chinese filmmakers turn to digital filmmaking.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

The first hydroxide conductivity in anion conducting polymer thin films

As decarbonization progresses rapidly in the world, fuel cells offer potentially higher electrical efficiency than conventional power-generating systems. Anion exchange membrane fuel cells offer advantages of using non-precious metal catalysts than proton exchange membrane fuel cells. One of the challenges of this next-generation fuel cell is to clarify the hydroxide ion conductivity in the ion conductive polymer around the electrode catalyst. The difficulty of studying the hydroxide ion conductivity at the electrode interface is that the hydroxide ion, which is a carrier, easily reacts with carbon dioxide in the air. To solve this problem, all evaluation devices were improved so that the sample did not come into contacting with air.

In a new study published in ChemSusChem, researchers from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), namely Associate Professor Yuki Nagao and Ph.D. students Fangfang Wang and Dongjin Wang, succeeded in precisely identifying the hydroxide ion conductivity and the water amount contained in the sample without exposing the thin film sample to air. Fluorene-based cationic polymers were synthesized, and Br- and OH- samples as counter anions were prepared for comparison. It was revealed that the 270-nm-thick thin film containing hydroxide ions exhibits a high hydroxide ion conductivity of 0.05 S cm-1. This ionic conductivity was more than twice as high as the value of the thin film containing Br- ions as shown in Figure 1.

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[mxescargot]

Chinastuck: the alpha kids

Jane Crocker: 王艳芳 (Wang Yanfang). Goes by Fangfang. Lives in Beijing. Han Chinese, with some Korean ancestry.

for the name i sort of went off of pure vibes. wang is ubercommon and means "king", yan means beautiful and i honestly just added it so all the prospit kids could have Y names, fang means "sweet-smelling" or "virtuous".

transmasc jane crocker real to me and he chooses the name 敏敏 (Minmin) meaning "clever" bc detective vibe??

still figuring out how to incorporate crockercorp.

Roxy Lalonde: 刘天秀 (Liu Tianxiu). Lives in flooded, postapocalyptic Shanghai among carapacians. Kazakh and Jewish Han ancestry.

roxy to my understanding means something like "bright dawn". tianxiu means beautiful sky. they share the character xiu with rose's name, xiulan.

Dirk Strider: 赵强剑 (Zhao Qiangjian). Lives alone in postapocalyptic, flooded Chongqing. Jewish Han and Hmong ancestry.

qiang means "strong" or "surpassing" and jian means "sword/dagger", tying into his character and one of the meanings of dirk, a type of dagger. he may be from the mainland, but since He's Dirk he uses traditional and even archaic characters for the ✨vibe✨, much to the annoyance of the other alpha kids. he spells his own name as 趙彊劍 lmao

i feel like doll strider would choose the name 雪莲 (Xuelian), which both means "snow-white lotus", suggesting purity, and is the name of a rare and precious herb. lotuses also have religious significance which she is aware of although dirk is a lil bit of a snooty reddit atheist to me. again she'd spell lian as 蓮 for Dirk Reasons

dirk is as much of a weeb and brony as in canon. he likes yapping abt chinese/japanese/western cultural comparisions and tries to teach himself japanese.

Jake English: Angli, sinicized as 洋格李 (Yang Geli). Lives in rural Inner Mongolia. Mongolian.

mongolian names typically are only the given name. jake's name is literally "english"; post scratch jade named him this to spite the condesce, similar to her taking on the last name english in canon. this also reflects a somewhat old fashioned mongolian naming practice of giving a child a strange/inauspicious name to drive away misfortune. (i am not mongolian myself apologies if this explanation did not make much sense) the sinicization of his name starts with a Y to match all the other prospit kids, with the character 洋 meaning the ocean with a connotation of vastness. this references him growing up in the middle of the ocean.

i like transfem jake english choosing the name lara. in china its spelled 勞拉 👍

idk what other details to change abt jakes life... the general arc of it is similar obviously

[suiluwu]

Why does Chinese gymnasts hardly do double layouts on floor?

for the most part, current chinese gymnasts tend to focus on twisting passes as they struggle to generate the height to do DLOs (and coaches seem to enforce converting all the girls to twisting passes but that’s another story...), but there have been quite a few who have trained/competed them throughout chn gym history!

here’s a list of them who have competed it: yu feng (1985), yang changmin (1995), mo huilan (1995), mao yanling (1995), kui yuanyuan (1996), ji liya (1996), xu jing (1996), sang lan (1996), chen mi (1997), chen maojie (1998), bai chunyue (1999), wang tiantian (2004), kang xin (2004), zeng panpan (2011), yao jinnan (2011), wang wei (2013), liu jingxing (2016), luo huan (2017), wang yan (2017), jia fangfang (2018), liu jinru (2018), & qi qi (2018 internal test, no footage)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m1b_Q_3XY2tye9t6DdPWOU7xNuAC4pNRSYhNlUaatBI/edit

[drmikewatts]

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 28, Number 5, October 2024

1) Particle Swarm Optimization for Efficiently Evolving Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Using an Autoencoder-Based Encoding Strategy

Author(s:); Gonglin Yuan, Bin Wang, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang

Pages: 1190 - 1204

2) Conditional Generative Adversarial Network-Based Bilevel Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Algorithm

Author(s:); Weizhong Wang, Hai-Lin Liu

Pages: 1205 - 1219

3) Can Evolutionary Clustering Have Theoretical Guarantees?

Author(s:); Chao Qian

Pages: 1220 - 1234

4) Genetic Programming With Lexicase Selection for Large-Scale Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling

Author(s:); Meng Xu, Yi Mei, Fangfang Zhang, Mengjie Zhang

Pages: 1235 - 1249

5) Correlation-Based Dynamic Allocation Scheme of Fitness Evaluations for Constrained Evolutionary Optimization

Author(s:); Han Huang, Yueting Xu, Yi Xiang, Zhifeng Hao

Pages: 1250 - 1264

6) Robust Optimization Over Time: A Critical Review

Author(s:); Danial Yazdani, Mohammad Nabi Omidvar, Donya Yazdani, Jürgen Branke, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Amir H. Gandomi, Yaochu Jin, Xin Yao

Pages: 1265 - 1285

7) Balancing Objective Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction in Expensive Constrained Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

Author(s:); Zhenshou Song, Handing Wang, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang, Yaochu Jin

Pages: 1286 - 1300

8) Estimation of Distribution Algorithms in Machine Learning: A Survey

Author(s:); Pedro Larrañaga, Concha Bielza

Pages: 1301 - 1321

9) Multiobjective Optimization-Based Network Control Principles for Identifying Personalized Drug Targets With Cancer

Author(s:); Jing Liang, Zhuo Hu, Zong-Wei Li, Kangjia Qiao, Wei-Feng Guo

Pages: 1322 - 1335

10) Privacy-Enhanced Multitasking Particle Swarm Optimization Based on Homomorphic Encryption

Author(s:); Hao Li, Fanggao Wan, Maoguo Gong, A. K. Qin, Yue Wu, Lining Xing

Pages: 1336 - 1350

11) Machine Learning-Based Prediction of New Pareto-Optimal Solutions From Pseudo-Weights

Author(s:); Anirudh Suresh, Kalyanmoy Deb

Pages: 1351 - 1365

12) A Genetic Programming Approach With Building Block Evolving and Reusing to Image Classification

Author(s:); Ying Bi, Jing Liang, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang

Pages: 1366 - 1380

13) Evolutionary Dynamic Constrained Multiobjective Optimization: Test Suite and Algorithm

Author(s:); Guoyu Chen, Yinan Guo, Yong Wang, Jing Liang, Dunwei Gong, Shengxiang Yang

Pages: 1381 - 1395

14) A Data-Driven Evolutionary Transfer Optimization for Expensive Problems in Dynamic Environments

Author(s:); Ke Li, Renzhi Chen, Xin Yao

Pages: 1396 - 1411

15) Interactively Learning Rough Strategies That Dynamically Satisfy Investor’s Preferences in Multiobjective Index Tracking

Author(s:); Julio Cezar Soares Silva, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida Filho

Pages: 1412 - 1426

16) A Self-Adaptive Collaborative Differential Evolution Algorithm for Solving Energy Resource Management Problems in Smart Grids

Author(s:); Haoxiang Qin, Wenlei Bai, Yi Xiang, Fangqing Liu, Yuyan Han, Ling Wang

Pages: 1427 - 1441

17) Runtime Analysis for the NSGA-II: Proving, Quantifying, and Explaining the Inefficiency for Many Objectives

Author(s:); Weijie Zheng, Benjamin Doerr

Pages: 1442 - 1454

18) Modular Multitree Genetic Programming for Evolutionary Feature Construction for Regression

Author(s:); Hengzhe Zhang, Qi Chen, Bing Xue, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Mengjie Zhang

Pages: 1455 - 1469

19) Regularity Evolution for Multiobjective Optimization

Author(s:); Shuai Wang, Aimin Zhou

Pages: 1470 - 1483

20) SR-Forest: A Genetic Programming-Based Heterogeneous Ensemble Learning Method

Author(s:); Hengzhe Zhang, Aimin Zhou, Qi Chen, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang

Pages: 1484 - 1498

21) Evolutionary Multitasking With Centralized Learning for Large-Scale Combinatorial Multiobjective Optimization

Author(s:); Yuxiao Huang, Wei Zhou, Yu Wang, Min Li, Liang Feng, Kay Chen Tan

Pages: 1499 - 1513

22) VSG3A2: A Genetic Algorithm-Based Virtual Sample Generation Approach Using Information Gain and Acceptance-Rejection Sampling

Author(s:); Hong Yu, Xuekang Fan, Guoyin Wang, Yongfang Xie

Pages: 1514 - 1528

23) A Dynamic-Niching-Based Pareto Domination for Multimodal Multiobjective Optimization

Author(s:); Juan Zou, Qi Deng, Yuan Liu, Xinjie Yang, Shengxiang Yang, Jinhua Zheng

Pages: 1529 - 1543

[gymternet-chn]

WAG Qualification Results of 2019 CHN Nationals

Team（1-6）: Guangdong(215.6), Zhejiang(209.75), Beijing(208.65), Hubei, Shanghai,Hunan

AA(1-8): Liu Tingting(55.2), Ou Yushan(54.9),Luo Huan(54.7), Zhang Jin(53.6), Tang Xijing,Qi Qi,Liu Jieyu,Chen Yanfei

VT: Yu Linmin (DTY+Cheng), Liu Jinru, Qi Qi, Zhang Silei, Deng Yalan, Ye Dandan,Tie Jiayi, Xia Qingqing

UB: Fan Yilin(6.5), Liu Tingting, Luo Huan, Cheng Shiyi,Zhou Ruiyu,Lu Yufei, Li Shijia, Ou Yushan

BB: Ou Yushan， Luo Rui, Luo Huan, Chen Yanfei, Qi Qi, Tang Xijing, Luo Youjuan, Wang Cenyu-----Tingting is 3rd in Guangdong team so she has to withdraw the bb final.

FX: Zhang Jin(5.6), Liu tingting(4.7), liu Jieyu(5.1), Jia Fangfang(5.3), Ou Yushan, Shang Chunsong, Liu jinru, Qian Xuejia

[amechuqueen]

Why didn't Rosario vampire follow the manga?! I wanna see fangfang and his family!!! He's a Chinese mafia man how cool is that?! Come on I wanna see him animated! Fangfang also looks like aph china too doesn't he?

[golden-china]

China’s Seniors for 2020

The Worlds Team

Tang Xijing (2003, Beijing) Best event: all-around, balance beam, uneven bars Best result: 2019 World Championships all-around silver

Li Shijia (2003, Sichuan) Best event: all-around, balance beam Best result: 2019 World Championships balance beam bronze

Qi Qi (2003, Beijing) Best event: all-around, vault, floor exercise Best result: 2019 Jesolo floor bronze & 2019 Chinese Nationals vault silver

Liu Tingting (2000, Guangdong) Best event: uneven bars, balance beam Best result: 2018 World Champion on balance beam & 2019 World Championships balance beam silver

Chen Yile (2002, Guangdong) Best event: all-around, balance beam Best result: 2018 Asian Games all-around & balance beam champion

Zhang Jin (2000, Shanghai) Best event: all-around, balance beam Best result: 2018 Stuttgart World Cup all-around champion

The Newcomers

Ou Yushan (2004, Guangdong) Best event: all-around, uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise Best result: 2019 Junior World Championships all-around bronze & floor exercise silver

Wei Xiaoyuan (2004, Shanxi) Best event: all-around, uneven bars, balance beam Best result: 2019 Junior World Championships uneven bars bronze & balance beam silver

Guan Chenchen (2004, Zhejiang) Best event: vault, balance beam Best result: 2019 Chinese National Youth Games vault champion & balance beam silver

Chen Yanfei (2004, Zhejiang) Best event: all-around, balance beam Best result: 2019 Chinese National Youth Games all-around bronze & balance beam bronze

He Licheng (2004, Anhui) Best event: all-around, balance beam, floor exercise Best result: 2019 Chinese National Youth Games floor exercise bronze

Wang Jingying (2004, Shanxi) Best event: all-around, uneven bars Best result: 2019 Chinese National Youth Games uneven bars bronze

The girls who are in the running

Fan Yilin (1999, Shanghai) Best event: uneven bars Best result: 2015 & 2017 World Champion on uneven bars *Most likely going to Tokyo as an individual

Luo Huan (2000, Zhejiang) Best event: all-around, uneven bars, balance beam Best result: 2017 & 2018 Chinese Nationals all-around champion & 2019 Chinese Nationals all-around silver

Yin Sisi (2003, Hubei) Best event: uneven bars, floor exercise Best result: 2019 Cottbus World Cup uneven bars bronze

Zhou Ruiyu (2003, Sichuan) Best event: all-around, uneven bars Best result: 2019 Asian all-around champion & uneven bars silver & balance beam bronze

Yu Linmin (2003, Fujian) Best event: vault Best result: 2019 Cottbus World Cup vault champion & 2019 Asian Championships vault champion

The Veterans

*Some of these gymnasts are not on the national team

Zhao Shiting (2003, Guangdong) Best event: balance beam, floor exercise Best result: 2019 Melbourne World Cup balance beam champion & floor exercise bronze

Cheng Shiyi (2003, Fujian) Best event: uneven bars Best result: 2019 Chinese Nationals uneven bars silver

Li Qi (2002, Zhejiang) Best event: balance beam Best result: 2019 Doha World Cup balance beam champion

Liu Jieyu (2002, Hubei) Best event: all-around, floor exercise Best result: 2019 Asian Championships all-around third place & floor exercise bronze

Qian Xuejia (2002, Hunan) Best event: balance beam, floor exercise Best result: 2019 Korea Cup balance beam bronze

Du Siyu (2002, Beijing) Best event: all-around, uneven bars Best result: 2018 Melbourne World Cup uneven bars gold

Liu Jingxing (2001, Guangdong) Best event: balance beam, floor exercise Best result: 2019 Zhaoqing Challenge Cup floor exercise champion & uneven bars silver

Luo Youjuan (2001, Hunan) Best event: balance beam, floor exercise Best result: 2018 Chinese Individual Championships balance beam silver

Chen Xiaoqing (2001, Hunan) Best event: all-around, balance beam Best result: 2018 Voronin Cup balance beam bronze

Lu Yufei (2000, Henan) Best event: all-around, uneven bars Best result: 2019 Asian Championships uneven bars champion & all-around silver

Lv Jiaqi (2000, Zhejiang) Best event: uneven bars, balance beam Best result: 2018 Chinese uneven bars champion & 2019 Baku World Cup uneven bars champion *Not sure if she is still training

Wang Yan (1999, Beijing) Best event: vault, floor exercise Best result: 2016 Olympic Games team bronze *Not sure if she is still training

Shang Chunsong (1996, Hunan) Best event: uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise Best result: 2016 Olympic Games team bronze & 2019 Chinese floor exercise champion

Jia Fangfang (1994, Zhejiang) Best event: floor exercise Best result: 2019 Chinese Nationals floor exercise 4th place *Not sure if she is still training

[cfensi]

 I cried three times in the process of editing this review. This sweepingly beautiful but simple ode to Tsinghua University is a tear-jerker for all seasons.

Set against one of the most stunning visuals of the year, Forever Young 无问西东 tells its simple tales with an incredibly romantic lens that makes it difficult not to admire.  Director Li Fangfang (Heaven Eternal, Love Everlasting) always manages to play my emotions just right to evoke all my emotions for the world she captures.

The film from centers around four loosely connected stories of six characters (played by Wang Leehom, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Huang Xiaoming, Tie Zheng, and Chen Chusheng) facing their true selves through making difficult choices, from scary ones like life-and-death decisions to the even scarier decision of picking a college major.

First up chronologically is Tsinghua student Wu Yuelan (Chen Chusheng), who clearly has one of the toughest decisions in life –    what major to chose. He excels in literature, but feels like he needs to prove himself by sticking to a “hard” STEM major. He runs past the violinists playing in the snow as he seeks his own tune in life. The story, set entirely in the snow-covered halls of Tsinghua, is super short but connects well to the next story.

“I’m afraid that before you can chose what type of life you want to live, your will no longer have a life to chose.” –  Forever Young

There, we meet one of Wu’s students, Tsinghua student Shen Guangyao (Wang Leehom), the beacon of perfection who escaped with the school after the fall of Beijing in 1937.  Set in the rice paddies of Yunnan, the tale shifts from a rich green to barren redness as air raids begin to become more and more common.  Students hide in ditches as they try to learn while bombs are going off around them, while professors scramble to protect artifacts while they’re running for their own lives. The film’s oil painting-like depictions of hope and determination in the face of tragedy are etched in my brain to this day.

The rain drops drown out the sounds of teaching, so the teacher returns to the board and gives the instruction of the day: “Sit and listen to the sound of the rain.”  Unsettled by the noise, Shen Guangyao opens the window and see the lush, vibrant world outside. He  feels tempted to leave behind his books to fight the air raids in the new American-led air force, but is dissuaded by his stately mother’s hopes for him to live a full and fulfilling life. “I’m afraid that before you can chose what type of life you want to live, your will no longer have a life to chose.”

This segment is beautifully shot, with amazing set design, cinematography, costumes, and a perfect cast. The use of music along with the choreography of the students and locals toiling in the sun makes the film feel like a musical at time.  The then 36-year-old  Wang Leehom doesn’t look a day older than 20 and is perfectly cast as this ray of sunshine. Michelle Yip also gives a brief but stellar role as Shen’s loving mother.  This segment made me cry at seven different points despite being only a quarter of a movie.

“The last time I thought I was dead, I found you. This time, I must find you before death arrives.” – Forever Young

Fastforward to the Cultural Revolution, where we meet three high school best friends who are making difficult decisions of their own. Tsinghua student Chen Peng (Huang Xiaoming) has the opportunity to work on the nuclear project, but wants to stay for love.  Pharmacist Wang Minjia (Zhang Ziyi) chose between a white lie that could ruin her life, and one that could save that of another. Doctor Li Xiang (Tie Zheng) must chose whether to tell the truth and risk his career.  Zhang Ziyi is the clear star of this tale, with the light bouncing off her smile at times, and other times  the sorrow of her eyes. With excellent performances from Zhang Ziyi, Tie Zheng, and Zheng Zheng as their teacher’s abusive wife, the segment was a visually lovely and well-told story.

Seriously look at how gorgeous this is.   To top it off, it’s also a choreographed musical number.

 Finally, back in modern day, advertising exec Zhang Guoguo (Chang Chen), Tsinghua grad and the son of two people saved by Li Xiang, is faced with the dilemma of whether to seek revenge on a colleague. The story is really bland, his acting is bland, even all the side characters in it are bland.

Setting aside the blue tint that seeped through the entirety of her last film, director Li Fangfang works with cinematographer Cao Yu to use colors to reflect the mood in her new film. From the white hospital sheets  that changed to the yellow of the apricot leaves and the brown of the huts, to the red of the Earth,  and even the cold metal of modern skyscrapers, the film uses color and lighting to advance the story.  Her editing and scriptwriting has also improved significantly, with  much smoother transitions and natural dialogues. While most of the score is not memorable, one particular song is used cleverly to connect two stories and bring out a major tear-jerking moment.

The film’s tales range from moving to boring, and is connected through a rather loose theme of one generation building on another,  but what really stood out to me was how the filmmaker builds this almost dreamlike world with such romantic and enlightened details throughout. Sometimes a simple story told well can still move the audience, and this one definitely left me with a bit more appreciation for the world and lot of used tissues.

The film is now available on QQ here and iQiyi here.

“This film is dedicated to each and every one of you. May you always remember how precious you are.”

Review: Forever Young is a poignant love letter to the world

 I cried three times in the process of editing this review. This sweepingly beautiful but simple ode to Tsinghua University is a tear-jerker for all seasons.

Review: Forever Young is a poignant love letter to the world  I cried three times in the process of editing this review. This sweepingly beautiful but simple ode to Tsinghua University is a tear-jerker for all seasons.