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Blocked on Weibo
‘What's not allowed on China's version of Twitter’.
china  chinese  censorship  internet 
11 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Chinese Etymology Home Page
Historical examples of Chinese characters: bronze & seal script etc. Strictly, it’s paleography rather than etymology.
paleography  chinese  hanzi  language  linguistics 
january 2011 by threedaymonk
China Brushes Out Distinctive Hues of Names
Imagine being told to change your name because the computer can't write it.
china  chinese  name  bureaucracy  unicode 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
Shanghainese vs. Mandarin
china  shanghai  chinese  shanghainese  languages  commented 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
The MaxPlanckForschung Cover Fiasco: How It Happened
chinese  germany 
january 2009 by threedaymonk
Burlesque Matinée at the Max Planck Gesellschaft
Highbrow German publication publishes lewd invitation on its cover instead of the intended classical Chinese poem. Their excuse is unconvincing.
chinese  germany  humour  hanzi  commented 
december 2008 by threedaymonk
《中文菜单英文译法》(Chinese Menu in English Version)
A massive list of decent translations of Chinese dishes. I could have used this when I visited.
chinese  food  cooking 
august 2008 by threedaymonk
Sichuan recipes
Including mapo doufu.
chinese  recipes  cooking 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
Awkward Sneeze
Chinese people can't write Chinese!
chinese  writing 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
SCIM - Community Ubuntu Documentation
How to set up Ubuntu to be able to type Japanese, Korean or Chinese.
ubuntu  japanese  chinese  korean  cjk 
december 2007 by threedaymonk
The Etiology and Elaboration of a Flagrant Mistranslation
Why there are so many bad Chinese-English translations containing the word 'fuck'.
english  chinese  translation 
december 2007 by threedaymonk
Chinese characters, literacy, and the Japanese model
‘[Japanese] public school graduates […] retain a recognition knowledge of the 1,945 kanji but soon forget how to write all but 500 or so.’
japan  china  japanese  chinese  kanji  hanzi  literacy 
may 2007 by threedaymonk
Foreigners looking like fools with gobbledygook tattoos
‘[A] fight nearly broke out on the court when Chinese star Yao Ming … began laughing at a tattoo on a rival player's neck.’
japanese  chinese  humour  tattoos 
december 2006 by threedaymonk
Have no the adult the child that look after with the old man prohibition against the next sea swimming
Best. Engrish. Ever.
humour  chinese  engrish 
december 2005 by threedaymonk
Chinese fonts
A few decent Chinese fonts to download.
fonts  chinese 
july 2005 by threedaymonk
Uniting China to Speak Mandarin
China: one country, two systems, and hundreds of languages!
china  languages  chinese 
july 2005 by threedaymonk
POPjisyo.com
Dictionary Translation Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Kanji/Hanzi
languages  dictionary  japanese  chinese  korean 
march 2005 by threedaymonk
Hanzi Smatter 一知半解
That kanji tattoo doesn't mean what you think it does!
chinese  humour  japanese  tattoos 
december 2004 by threedaymonk

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