Tag Archives: earthquakes

Guo Jingjing pregnant?

Posted on 2008-05-13 by Joel Martinsen

Guo Jingjing might be pregnant; a talk with the translator of The Kite Runner; and a whole lot about the Sichuan earthquake.

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Sensitive earthquake advertising

Posted on 2008-05-13 by Eric Mu

Today’s Southern Metropolis Daily (南方都市报) ran a special edition for yesterday’s earthquake. A few changes were made on the front page design to cope with this special occasion.

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Earthquake omens

Posted on 2008-05-13 by Eric Mu

After every disaster, in hindsight, there seem to have been signs that passed by unheeded. Are they coincidences, or warnings from nature?

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Posted in Natural Phenomena | Tagged Chutian Metropolis Daily, earthquakes, toads | Comments Off

Remembering the Tangshan earthquake of 1976

Posted on 2008-05-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A 1983 news article written after the first foreign reporters visited Tangshan after the 1976 earthquake there.

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Posted in The Earnshaw Vault | Tagged 1976, earthquakes, natural disasters, Sichuan, Tangshan | Comments Off

Xinhua: Earthquake death toll nearly 10,000

Posted on 2008-05-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xinhua reports on the Sichuan earthquake.

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Posted in State media | Tagged earthquakes, natural disasters, Sichuan, Xinhua | Comments Off

Problems with slapdash translation

Posted on 2008-05-12 by Joel Martinsen

Translation and Guo Jingming; Sichuan earthquake; Wendi Deng and Zhang Ziyi; Beijing tops in toilets; ‘stroll’ arrests; being Chinese; the 14th DL; translation software from Google and Kingsoft; jumbo jets; workers released in Nigeria;

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