Life in China 2016: A Picture A Day, November 5 – China has become a bit stricter with pirated DVD’s and movies in areas where there are more foreigners, but for the most part, I think the practice is still everywhere. We have a small local movie/CD store where we buy our movies for 5 or 10 rmb each, that’s 75 cents to $1.50 USD. At first I struggled with doing this, but, although we have Netflix and Amazon Prime, the internet is usually too slow to watch movies. So, while in China, we do as the Chinese do, and watch pirated movies! Actually, the majority of Chinese just download their movies and music (for free). Where we used to live, there were movie carts, and they would set up in the evenings. Every so often you wouldn’t see them for a while and then you’d know that the police were cracking down. The picture is the back of a music CD that was translated to English; enjoy reading the song titles :-) Out of curiosity, I typed the ISBN number into Google search, a bunch of Chinese results came up, so I clicked the first one and the music instantly started playing, it was Chinese songs though, not English, but this was a set of multiple CD’s, supposedly for listening to in the car, so maybe it was mixed. If you go to the large chain bookstores and department stores, you can find DVD’s and CD’s that are supposedly official, but the English selection is very limited. www.myownchinesebrocade.com
