On the real meaning of zhēteng (折腾)
China VP Xí Jìnpíng (习近平) heated up the stinky tofu a bit the other day with some trash talk about foreigners who criticize China. Danwei has a video clip from Hong Kong, but the Beijing Sounds audio editors have been kind enough to pick out just a few pearls [...]
This week’s links may not all be Beijing or Sounds, but they are achievements of some of the aspirations here at the studios
On Beijingese for goodbye
It’s pretty dangerous to know just a little bit about something, so they say, and speech acts are a subject about which syz’s knowledge is about as bountiful as honesty on Valentine’s day. If the old saw is true, then, reading the rest of this post is like running with scissors.
On living vicariously through a new blog by Kellen Parker
What is Chinese? You know it’s not just Mandarin, of course, maybe because you’ve read John DeFrancis, or maybe because your one-time Minnesota neighbor, a spry Hong Kongese gentleman of 139 who spent 13 hours a day caring for his voluptuous jade carpet of a lawn, [...]
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