Tag Archives: language

Touring China with the guqin

Posted on 2008-06-02 by Joel Martinsen

John Thompson on old guqin music; controling coverage of the earthquake; the race for gold medals; a non-looting episode; no more thin plastic bags; why not to learn Chinese.

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Danwei Picks: Parsing the language of politicians and schoolgirls

Posted on 2008-03-27 by Joel Martinsen

‘Moral model’ Fang Yonggang dies; new envoys; Religion in Taiwan; ‘dia’ and the OED; Cultural Revolution language; Bush vs. Hu on Tibet; schools locked down.

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So simple that any child can learn it

Posted on 2008-03-12 by Joel Martinsen

Yang Jiechi (杨洁篪), the Chinese foreign minister, says that Chinese is one of the world’s easiest languages.

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Theater, business and wading into the sea
by Peter Micic

Posted on 2008-02-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The history of his new article two Chinese words that started as Qing dynasty actors slang and became buzzwords of the Chinese business elite.

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by Peter Micic

The sounds of Beijing

Posted on 2008-01-15 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A blog about Beijinghua.

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English learning for the masses

Posted on 2007-12-19 by Joel Martinsen

Ai Ma (艾玛) writes in the Mirror (法制晚报) about learning English from the radio.

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The assassin who stabbed Bush

Posted on 2007-12-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Google translates 刺杀布什的凶手 as ‘flippant’.

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Free wine! Fun with Sichuanese

Posted on 2007-12-03 by Robert Ness

Contest: interpret these dialect terms.

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Does foul language have a place in the papers?

Posted on 2007-10-12 by Joel Martinsen

Southern Weekly (南方周末) receives a letter from a reader upset about filthy language.

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Further developments in the case of the polite pronoun

Posted on 2007-06-18 by Joel Martinsen

More comments on 您 from Ding Qizhen (丁启阵) and Qian Shiming (钱世明).

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