{"id":567,"date":"2009-10-03T16:44:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T23:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2009-10-03T16:44:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T23:44:57","slug":"rose-and-frank-get-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2009\/10\/rose-and-frank-get-married\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose and Frank get married"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been learning Chinese since June, and it is certainly Harder than Arabic, in any case.<\/span>the most difficult language I’ve tried<\/span>. I have private lessons three times a week with Rose, who insists on explaining everything in Chinese first and English as a last resort.<\/p>\n

As a result, everything I know about Rose I have learned in Chinese \u2014 that she is from Ningbo<\/a>: A city twice the size of Brussels that nobody outside China has heard of.<\/span>Ningbo<\/span>, that she is learning French, and that she is marrying Frank, a C# programmer.<\/p>\n

They’ve been legally married for a few months already, but the wedding parties were saved for the 60th anniversary Chinese national day weekend \u2014 one in Ningbo, for her family, and one in a farming village that is quickly going urban about an hour South of Shanghai, for his family. I and some other students were invited to the Shanghai party.<\/p>\n

It was to be my first Chinese wedding, and I had no idea what to expect. I ended up capturing a series of vignettes on my iPhone, which I collated into a 10-minute mini documentary. Here it is:<\/p>\n

Note: A lot of tasty animals were harmed in the making of this film, so if you are a vegetarian, watch through your fingers. Also note: I did not eat any turtle; and no shark-fin soup was served.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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