Tag Archives: dictionaries

Editor of Oxford’s new giant Chinese English dictionary

Danwei interview with Julie Kleeman, the English editor of Oxford’s new giant English-Chinese Chinese-English dictionary.

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Old dictionaries and the Olympics

Yuan Shang (元尚) writes about old translations for ‘Olympics’ in the China Reading Journal (中华读书报).

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Damn the translator!

Yi Sha (伊沙) goes to Rotterdam. White Power in BQ. Politics in old dictionaries.

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Prostitutes and language mavens

陪客 is a contested term in a Chinese reference book.

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Putting animal protection in the dictionary

Animal protection advocates in China are upset at definitions in the Xinhua Dictionary that refer to the tasty flesh of animals.

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Beijing Bestsellers: Angels and web fiction

Bestsellers from The Beijing News for week of July 30, 2005.

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