Bryan suggest that we should have an introduction thread so that all forummers can get to know each other better.

Please indicate the following when introducing yourself:


Your nickname and real name (optional):

Where you're from:

Age:

Interests:

Other forums you visit:

Background info:

I'll start mine:

Your nickname and real name (optional): General Zhaoyun (Jow Yu hsing)

Where you're from: Originate from Taiwan, but now living in Singapore (still hold ROC nationality)

Age: 29

Interests: Chinese history, Buddhism, philosophy, golf, swimming

Other forums you visit: SMQ, E-sangha, SoSZ, AE, HG

Background info:

I was born in Taiwan, but family migrated to Singapore when I was 6. I was grown up and educated in Singapore. At the age of 19, I went to Germany for 6 months for a language study. After that I spent 4 years doing a direct master degree in mechanical engineering at Imperial College London. After graduation, I came back to Singapore and work for my family business, as a research engineer. Just last november, I was involved in sales and marketing and my title was changed to "account manager", in which I handle sales account.

My interests in chinese history dated back to my university period, when I started reading chinese history books, thereafter I've developed a strong interest in chinese history and culture. I'm a chinese history amateur basically.

I began to be involved in internet communities when I went to Heavengames history forum in 2000. After some fun over there, I founded Simaqian Studio in Jan 2001, which is an online community for world history discussion.

In June 2004, after realising that there is a need for a specialised forum for chinese history discussion, I founded this new community called "China History Forum".

Your nickname and real name (optional): Yun (Yang Shao-yun 杨劭允)

Where you're from: Singapore

Age: 24

Interests: History, Religion, Music

Other forums you visit: AE

Background info: I was born in Singapore to an English-educated father and a Chinese-educated mother, and have been effectively billingual since my childhood (although I can't speak any Chinese dialects other than the northern one). Interested in history from the age of 13, I was introduced to Chinese history through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms when I was 15. Three years later, I moved on to the history of the Age of Fragmentation (after Three Kingdoms and until Sui), and kept reading into it while I was in the army for two-and-a-half years of compulsory military service. I soon decided to make it the focus of my future career as a historian.

At present, I'm in my last year at the National University of Singapore, majoring in History. I intend to pursue a PhD in the US, and then seek a position in the History department of a university (not necessarily in Singapore).

I'm also a committed Christian, and have been attending a Chinese-language church called the Evangelise China Fellowship since I was a child.

Your nickname and real name (optional): thirdgumi (Lu Yang)

Where you're from: Portugal, born in Shanghai, China.

Age: 24

Interests: History, Chinese history, military history

Other forums you visit: A, SMQ

Background info:
Not much to tell, born in Shanghai, China. Then migrated to Portugal, living there for 12 years. I was studing Naval Engineering for 4 years and got bored with it. So I decided to study history back in China, by doing so, I hope I discover my true place in this world.

Real Name: Tyler

Age: 14 (I feel so young)

Interests: History, Three Kingdoms Era, basic programing

Other forums I visit: SMQ, SOSZ,

Your nickname and real name (optional): Bryan (want a chinese name, my history prof said to ask a friend... oh well)

Where you're from: Savannah, Georgia, USA

Age: 19

Interests: History in general, games (doesn't matter what type (i.e. board, video, word, etc.)), having a good time, reading, drawing, running/hiking/jogging.

Other forums you visit: Whoo... okay then... Scholars of Shen Zhou, Empire Divided, All Empires, this one, and last but certainly not least (drum roll)... Simaqian Studio!

Background info: Born in Savannah, Georgia, visited Mexico twice (though I can't speak a thing in Spanish; went through it on road trips, so I can't remember any towns ;) but the ladies, oh my...), was in college up until a family incident required me to pull out temporarily, but I'll probably be back in soon... I'm a quarter Chinese, and 100% mutt, a majority of my anscestry comes from Europe though...

Oh, Liu Ce, I never told you that Tyler is the name of my little 15 year old brother have I? Strange world. :)

Your nickname and real name (optional): Lord Anatolius

Where you're from: Russian, now living in the UK

Age: 15

Interests: history, chess, music (piano), sport (tennis, table tennis, badminton, squash, some others), reading, intellectual stuff in general

Other forums you visit: HeavenGames History, sometimes the Library

No you haven't...

Your nickname and real name (optional): Nickname Yihesan, real name İhsan (ihsan, not ishan)

Where you're from: Ankara, Turkey

Age: 18

Interests: History (Central Asian-Steppe, Roman, Ottoman, Tang, General Military), Forumming-Internet, Watching movies (historical mostly), Going out with friends, etc...

Other forums you visit: THFA (admin), AE (Global Mod), SMQ (Mod), ED (Mod), SoSZ (Member), HG (Member)

Background info: Uhm...

Your nickname and real name (optional):wuTao

Where you're from:California! :D

Age:24

Interests:Playing video/comp games, reading (history, esp. Chinese and Japanese; sci-fi/fantasy; science, political and entertainment magazines), partying with friends, watching sports (football and basketball), playing football and some basketball, hiking/nature/outdoors, movies.

Other forums you visit:AllEmpires

Background info: Born in Hong Kong, moved to US when I was 3. Finished college and looking for a job. I've been interested in history since as far back as I can remember. I've learned most of what I know about Chinese history this past year though, mostly through the internet.
:D

Your nickname and real name (optional): Shadowfax

Where you're from: Taiwan, but now live in the United States

Age: 15

Interests: computer games, history, music, sports (swim, badminton).

Other forums you visit: some chinese forums. Heavengames.

Your nickname and real name (optional): Niu Hao-rong. Nauss (my last name)

Where you're from: USA, Michigan. 15 mintues out of Detroit (Troy).

Age: 16

Interests: Chinese History, "Xue Zhong Wen" 学中文 (studying chinese languge), and a bit of millitary tactics.

Other forums you visit:

Background info: Born in Texas, always loved China. Got to go once on a school trip, and I have always dreamed about going back. My favorite period is the Three kingdoms, and the Han Dynasty.

Nickname : snowybeagle

Where you're from: Singapore (there seems to quite a number of us here :P )

Age: 34 (I know I'm prob older than many of you, but the 30s is not too bad once you get there)

Interests: History, Fantasy, Second-hand books, political satires, comics, anime

Other forums you visit: Simaqian Studios, All Empire, does talkingcock.com count?

Background info: RJC 1988-1989 (yes, I'm from that far back), did computer-related studies in NTU, and also NUS. Currently a software engineer.

Your nickname and real name (optional): Sillin is a nickname, but generally my username suffices. Nathan J. Campbell is my name.

Where you're from: The Center of the Universe, i. e. Brooklyn, NYC, NY.

Age: 12. So stop feeling young, ye 14-year ancient Tyler. :rolleyes:

Interests: Obviously, Chinese history. Also theology, philosophy, literature, cryptozoology, and ferrets. :)

Other forums you visit: Scholars of shen Zhou, from whence I found this place, and Elendor Imladris COM channel (not really a forum, but whatever...)

Background info: The background is the part of a picture or scene not directly related to the primary subject of same. When asked to describe a video of a swimming fish, an Asian mindset is more likely to describe the background than the fish itself.

Name
Po-Lung Chia (Jia Bo Long, Jia as in Jia Bao Yu, Bo as in Bo Shi or professor, Long as in the serpent)

Age
19 (birthdate on June 16, 1984..coming soon...and I'll be 20!)

Where I'm from
Taiwan, Taipei. To be more precise, I have lived in Zhang Hua and Ban Qiao, though my favorite place is Da Xi where my maternal granny lives. Da Xi is full of carpentry workshops making ancestral shrines for praying (Bai Bai) and has all these Huang Ri Xiang dried tofu (Dou Gan) at very low prices. I also like the fermented tofu (Do Fu Ru) there. Every morning there's this old lady who peddles rice dumplings (Rou Zong) and there's lots of breakfast stores around. Taiwanese breakfast is excellente...best, actually.

Where I'm now
California, Berkeley, attending college. I am doing plant genetics and biology and would probably not study anything related to history for my major. But its always been my interest to know more.

Interest
I really like to talk. I like to talk about experiences, life, computer gaming and especially girls. I love talking about girls I loved, or rather, have been infatuated with (there's 5 of them so far). They're all lovely ladies, but the last 4 has broken my heart...but they're still lovely. Yeah, I don't have to talk about my job here as a mod...that's an interest too.

Background info
Right, born in Taiwan, ROC, and underwent the basics kindergarten and grade 1 before moving to Indonesia at the age of 7. Lived at Bandung where the place is cool with an semi-active volcano (Tunkungan Perahu...I forgot the exact spelling). I attended Bandung International School there and learnt my English there. Yeah, had my first crush at grade 5 but left Indonesia to Singapore where I was thrusted back into the traditional East Asian education style in Christian schools where they force you to listen to sermons every week.

Anyway, I stayed in Singapore for 8 years. Went to AHS for secondary school where I had my second crush, and went to HCJC 2001-2002 where I had my 3rd crush. And then I'm here at Berkeley, and the first semester I had my 4th crush that nearly killed me, and a 5th crush that lasted for 3 months and now I'm onto my 6th...its improvement alright. In secondary school it was 1 crush for 4 years, JC was 1 for 2 years, and now in Berkeley it was 3 for 1 year. :D

If you need help in screwing up your relationship, I'm the one you would be looking for.

Plenty of countrymen, I see. ;)

Your nickname and real name (optional): Nickname is obvious... one of three I use on the Internet. Real name Tan Chun Wee.

Where you're from: Singapore

Age: 18 this year

Interests: History, the Internet, computer games

Other forums you visit: HG, AE, SMQ, SomethingAwful are the main ones, but I have loads of others

Background info: Born and bred in Singapore. I was a student in RI 1999-2002, and am currently a JC2 student in RJC. I plan to major in History *somewhere* after I finish my A-Levels and national service.

Hows JC life, Han Wudi? Going good? My JC life was pretty bad. And I miss the beef noodles and the Cha Kwey Tiao...they don't have it here in the US. In fact, they don't have any good stuff in the US. To get good stuff I have to take a hour bus ride to go to Oakland Chinatown to buy the stuff I want.

Hey now, the U.S. has plenty of good food :angry: . You'll just have to branch out from that home cookin' ;) .

Au contraire, US food is just too impalatable for my delicate senses. The meat is too big, the eating is too messy, and I hate raw vegetables. If you're talking about US having Mexican, Korean or Chinese restaurants, I must say that those are not authentic US food. What I mean by US food is like steak or clam chowder or anything that's uniquely white American. And I generally find it impalatable. Not to mention that I personally find US food to be overrun by processed food items such as fries and burger patties, pizzas etc that's not really healthy.

And whats wrong with home cooking? Its cheaper, more healthy and much more enjoyable. I get to make up my own recipes and I get to cook my vegetables or pickle them as I see fit. I don't have to choose from an extremely limited menu, and plus, girls are very much impressed.

JC life sucks. It is meant to.

I can understand why you would miss those, they are truly SIngaporean delicacies. But don't you miss chicken rice too? ;)

Bah, I love steak. Course, even better foods are Gumbo and Fried Chicken.

By home cookin, I meant ethnical home cooking. Meaning the food from your homeland.

Sephodwyrm, here are some Asian restaurants I liked when I was in Berkeley:

Thai Noodle (I think it's on Oxford near the West Gate) - it's got fried rice, char siew rice, beef kway teow, and good pad thai

Steve's Korean BBQ - over on the south side, very famous. the beef dumpling soup and rice is good.

Le Petit Chevalier - Vietnamese cafe along Bancroft, large portions of various Asian dishes at a good price. But the "Singapore Fried Noodles" isn't Singaporean at all!

Where you're from: (Hong Kong or the USA)
Age: 30 plus

Interests: Football(Rea;l madrid fan, but nothing to do with Beckham)> I was a Real Madrid fan years before they sign the superstars.


Background info: I was born in US, but grew up in HK. I never took Chinese history in school. I learned my Chinese history from watching TV series. In college, I majored in International Relations(specialized in China between 1949 and 1980's). I planned to become a college professor on the subject, but dropped out after picking up a Master degree. from a good university in the US. However, my knowledge of Chinese history before 1949 is weak..... VERY WEAK.

BTW, I hate to discuss Chinese history during the Communist era even through I held a master degree on it. I got burned out.

Hi Tattoo.. welcome to CHF.. this is the place to learn chinese history. :P

Hey there.

My name is Gabrielle. I'm 33, Australian born and bred but live in Taipei, Taiwan (have been here for the past 5 years), study Chinese, work in a law office and teach a little English...and like many members on this site I suspect, I am hooked on Chinese culture. My interests include martial arts (taijiquan, baguazhang, qigong...), travel, plants, dancing, reading, languages.

I've joined this site because my aim is to do a thesis on Chinese women martial artists from the past to the present day. I'm hoping that by reading discussions and posting material here which I find in the course of my research other members may have ideas on where to read/research in this area. There is so much material about women who were generals, rebellion leaders, warriors, healers via both medicine and qigong, founders of martial arts systems and styles....but collating it all, and tracking down leads in Chinese and English is a long process. So any names, ideas or directions would be most welcome!

Thanks for making this site available.


xie xie da jia
Gabrielle :D

Hi Jiexiu,

welcome to CHF.. please feel free to join our discussion and ask some questions. You might get some answers.

Nihao to all new members, welcome! B) :lol:

Hey Sephodwyrm, falling in love that much isn't a good thing - indeed, love and relationships are things that should be avoided at all costs :angry:

Your nickname and real name (optional): 阿彪

Where you're from: Born in Taipei Taiwan, move to the New York City at age 5.

Age: 30

Interests: Olympic Tae Kwon Do, Japanese Anime, Food, Cars, Girls, Chinese culture, Asian American Issues, and other guy stuff

Other forums you visit: Goldsea, Forumosa, Taiwanunity, Theasf.net

Background info: Educated mostly in the USA got BS/BA in Molecular Biology, Philosophy, and Theoretical Mathematics. Went to a few Chinese language programs in ROC and PRC during college because parents throught it would be bad to have a Chinese illiterate son. Spend most of my time reading Japanese comic translated into Chinese.

I think I read some Chinese history books when parents thought it was bad to have a Chinese literate son that didn't read some serious Chinese literature. So I started watching Chinese wu xia soap operas. Was thinking about doing a thesis on why Chinese subtitles don't match what people say in the show.

Currently semi-retired and wondering what to do with the rest of my life. Thinking about starting a second career as an internet entity. :lol:

I work hard at trying not to take things too seriously. So excuse my off the cuff remarks at time.

Hi AC_dropout..

Good to know you've learnt some chinese.. it's can be hard for chinese growing up in America to learn chinese. I have some kids of my relatives in America, but they can only speak chinese, but not read and write chinese.

It's always good to keep in touch with your roots and culture.

So how do they sing KTV and write love letters to beautiful Chinese girls.
Oh well too bad for them.

:lol:

Heh heh..quite a number of Singaporeans here...

Well, I am born in Singapore. Left for NYC when I was 12. Studied, worked in NYC for most of the time. Went to college at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 6 months after September 11th, I decided to immigrate to Canada. And proud to be a Canadian.

Not to mention...I am an old old 31 years of age.

My interests include finance, risk management, economics and history.

What is NYC?

NYC = New York City = The Big Apple = The Empire State
(named after the Empire State Building).

Why is it call the Big Apple? Cause everyone wants a slice. NYC is a city of 7 ~ 8 million people. During the day, the population swells to 12 million because folks from the surrounding states flood in.

I see. ..thanks for the explanation :P

Hello I am Travis. I'm from Ohio US, and I like many things. Some of which are history and video games. I have my own forum, it's new and we need members, check it out. New and improved: Changsha Forum

Hi Travis, welcome to CHF!

Welcome to the CHF, Travis... I've visited your forum as a guest before, when I saw the adress at Era of War I think, but I didn't think of joining... too busy with other forums right now I guess... anyways, some of the links are hard to see with the skin/background that you are using, but other than that it looks like a nice forum.

Welcome! :)