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Category: Language

China/Language

The Language of Wuhan

Posted on March 5, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

The Wuhan dialect is often described as a “southwestern mandarin variety” of Chinese. For over a century foreigners, especially missionaries who liv...

Chinese/Language/Teaching

Classical Chinese for Everyone

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

Looking for a fun book? Look no further! Bryan Van Norden’s Classical Chinese for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners is it. This is a book for anyon...

Language/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Pinyin is coming to get you!

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here is a CIA report on Pinyin from, I think, 1961 or so. They lay out the history of pinyin as a method of romanization (or latinization) of Chinese, and from ...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/English/Language/Republican

Seek truth from facts

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

The Atlantic has a post by Matt Schiavenza entitled “What’s with the Chinese Communist Party and Slogans” It’s a nice little piece on th...

China/Language

Ngram

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

All the cool kids are playing with the new Google Ngram viewer, which lets you make graphs of word usage over time. You can search for usage in Chinese, but I&#...

China/Language/Sino-Japanese Wars

Sweaty Traitors – Character Simplifications That Just Weren't Meant to Be

Posted on July 9, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 8 Comments

I had an old instructor of Chinese language many years ago who took every opportunity to pick fun at the evil Reds on the mainland. I think he fled China in 194...

China/English/Language/Web Sites and Resources

How do you say that in Changsha?

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I found a couple of cool language tools. Both are hosted by the Russian site Tower of Babel, which appears to be run by some serious linguists who have complied...

China/Chinese/Current Events/English/Language

Old Friends in New Contexts

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

One of the fun things for me about the “Rise of China” and the prominence it continues to gain in Western media, economics and culture, is reconnect...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/English/Language

Does learning Chinese bring about world peace?

Posted on February 4, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 16 Comments

China Law blog asks an interesting question, and as they specifically call us out for a response, I thought I would say something. The question they asks is ...

China/China-Japan/General/Language

No need for Clever Speech

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 7 Comments

It is recorded in the Han chronicles that when Emperor Wen visited his pleasure park he went to the area called Tiger Garden. There he questioned the official i...

China/Chinese/General/Language/Post-Mao

他媽的

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

I caught a couple of episodes of Firefly on TV a bit back. The thing that hooked me was that some of the characters were swearing in Chinese, of a sort. The ser...

China/English/General/Language

Earliest Chinese Writing?

Posted on March 24, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

People’s Daily Online is reporting that 7000 year old characters have been found which seem to be direct precedents to known Chinese characters. [via] The...

China/Classics/English/General/Language/Literature/Poetry

Hightower Obituary

Posted on March 4, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

If you’re an H-Asia reader, you already saw this, but if you’re not, it’s an interesting look at the 20th century history of Asian literary st...

China/Chinese/General/Language

danger + opportunity

Posted on December 16, 2005 by katrina / 7 Comments

This entry on pinyin.info looks at the misunderstanding of the construction of characters. This tendency – particularly among the writers of motivational/...

Books/China/Chinese/Civil War/English/Language/Sino-Japanese Wars

7/7 and a Wartime Dictionary

Posted on July 7, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

While I’m spending the summer studying Korean in Seoul, one of the books I brought with me for some recreational reading is a Chinese wartime dictionary (...

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