Showing posts with label Sinophilia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sinophilia. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Tidbits, Short Takes and Links

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• Overall, the Obama win feels less like a glorious victory & more like a near-miss car collision that you're thankful to have walk...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Many Shadows of Lǐ Bái Drinking by Moonlight

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Tracy Lord (Katherine Hepburn) : There was a Chinese poet who was drowned while trying to kiss the moon in the river. He was drunk. George K...
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Long Live Zhōu Yǒuguāng!

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Googling something up, I clicked (at a whim) on the link for the Wikipedia page about one Zhōu Yǒuguāng ( 周有光), called the "father of ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Drawing a Computer in Chinese Characters

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The other day my son wanted to draw so, in part for fun, in part to help him focus, in part to help him feel like I was playing with him and...
Sunday, August 14, 2011

Wonderful Coal Consumption

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In my recent foolin' around with Chinese* , I was looking at this bilingual web comic -- which, in this instance, was simply a translat...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Oh Yeah, Play Them Duì Bù Qǐ Blues - I Like That

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As part of my recent fooling around with Chinese , I stumbled upon ( via ) this video of a song from the perspective of a struggling learner...
Thursday, August 04, 2011

Clicke, lege

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As part of the desacralization of the world, we have moved from tolle, lege followed by a spiritual experience, to clicke, lege * , followe...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Foolin' Around With Chinese: Translations of Children's Classics

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So I've been fooling around with Chinese. The difference between this and studying Chinese is that I'm not expecting it to go anyw...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Xu Bing's Book from the Ground

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I'll get around to the explanation in a minute, but the main thing I wanted to do in this post is to quote the first paragraph of an ava...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

"And the whole world was of one language and of one speech"

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A fun site I found last night ( via ) has the bible in multiple languages , formatted in parallel columns. This is not itself so rare, but ...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

Poem of the Day (and Poetry Site of the Month)

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I recently stumbled upon a web site called Poems Found in Translation , run by a poet, linguist and polyglot * named A.Z. Foreman . It'...
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Sunday, September 25, 2005

Other Reasons I Love Firefly (Part One)

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Other reasons, you say? Was there a previous post in the series? No. It's just that if I were to list the main reasons I love the show, ...