id like to see a chinese equivalent of rush limabugh style mock-chinese, preferably on youtube
― jhøshea nrq (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 January 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
feel like china's efficiency in mocking wite ppl langauges will have big implications for the kulturkampf
― jhøshea nrq (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 January 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2012/01/04/the-republicans-on-china-who-knows-what%E2%80%99s-up-and-who-doesn%E2%80%99t-2/
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 6 January 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
interesting take on hu's remarks
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/beijings-culture-war-isnt-about-the-us-its-about-chinas-future/250900/
reminded that so far the most strident efforts have been made against china's own culture-producers like 非诚勿扰
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 6 January 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
it's always been embarrassing to have to rep for chinese literature because there isn't a lot of it that i feel right repping for and everything that appears in english translation is hindered by being shittily translated (99% of it by howard goldblatt).
so i dunno. to see chinese literature today devote an issue to him... with a fucking self-interview... and everything in the magazine is basically howard goldblatt school of translation stuff. really overliteral and all the chinese idioms are matched with english idioms (which would work if english writing involved a lot of pithy phrases and shit).
anyways.
i was sort of stoked to see them finally drop a second issue because i was supposed to have an excerpt of northern girls by sheng keyi in it. but there was supposedly some "controversy" because it had dirty words in it (book revolves around a girl with huge breasts who fucks her way to shenzhen). but no.
― dylannn, Saturday, 7 January 2012 07:49 (twelve years ago) link
"Has he sold out his prison-mates? Why else would he get such good treatment? A large piece of pork every time."
In any case, pork was a welcome addition to their meal. Sometimes they even joked about it:"There were bristles on the piece I got. Lots of them standing straight up, like that you-know-what down below. Ha ha ha."
"Is your you-know-what as skinny as a pig's bristle?" someone would ask in jest.
now, this type of shit is basically chinglish to me. why can't we have chinese-english translation where the final result is natural, modern english???
"prison-mates""you-know-what down below""in jest"
The heat brings out the gamy smell of the beef, but, with the amelioration of spices, only an aromatic meaty fragrance remains.
It is a heavy fragrance.
It has an authentic, delicious flavor.
:(
http://www.ou.edu/clt/vol-2-1/fiction-li-ang.html
it's actually a decentish essay but to me, it's almost unreadable if i have to read
For those under the sentence of death each Thursday night's three-inch piece of pork and cake of tofu could very well mean his "last, sumptuous supper." :(((( why is last sumptuous supper in quotation marks? likely because it represents a chinese phrase but DUDE JUST FUCKING TRANSLATE IT. WHY KEEP TALKING ABOUT A BOWL-SIZED ETC. IN CHINESE YOU SAY SOMETHING IS THE SIZE OF A BOWL OR AS THICK AS A BOWL BUT NO ONE DOES THAT IN ENGLISH
― dylannn, Saturday, 7 January 2012 07:54 (twelve years ago) link
but i really like li ang and the piece is interesting so i guess i just want to say it deserves a more natural, fluent translation and more people to read it.
― dylannn, Saturday, 7 January 2012 07:56 (twelve years ago) link
goldblatt had the one crack at doing jia pingwa in english and fucked it up.
theory: people that study chinese literature are so caught up in the idea that each character is crucial and must be understood and communicated that they miss the idea and the vibe and the soul of the original.
theory: howard goldblatt and lots of the other dudes that get the few chinese lit translation jobs are REALLY OLD. (recent exception cindy carter for dream of ding village and a few more that i can't think of off the top of my head).
but actually: i think howard goldblatt is good as a digging in the crates type of dude and found lots of good stuff that nobody bothered with, especially in taiwan. and i always liked his translation of notes of a desolate man by zhu tianwen.
― dylannn, Saturday, 7 January 2012 08:08 (twelve years ago) link
actually, i take back everything i said about him. that self-interview upset me. it's not his fault he's basically the only show in town.
― dylannn, Saturday, 7 January 2012 08:10 (twelve years ago) link
eh well those are mostly theoretical translation issues. there's the fear of turning into a modern day constance garnett, i.e. someone who translates works into stiff victorian prose.
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Saturday, 7 January 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
man i get all fucked up on this hu jintao shit and i forgget that this is the actual countyr where i live and i just took X and made out with a beautiful korean girl in a club bathroom listening to david banner we need and she unhooked her bra for me and i had to ask her the first or second row when i did tback up . god it's snowing in dalian and it's so beautiful and peaceful and all the sttreetsweeper men are out sweeping snow instead of dust and i have my spring festival train tickets and i love it her despite cultural war or whatnot. lol.
― dylannn, Saturday, 7 January 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ou.edu/clt/vol-2-1/interview-wang-jiaxin.html
any misty poetry fans in this motherfucker?》》》》》
― dylannn, Saturday, 7 January 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.ftv.com.tw/NewsContent.aspx?ntype=class&sno=2012105L05M1
― dylannn, Saturday, 7 January 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2012/01/photo-showing-payslip-of-a-chinese-sanitation-worker-strikes-chord-in-netizens/
posting only because I have been to zengcheng!
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/11/british-chinese-racism/print
― hegel-lacan girl (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.danwei.com/serial-killers-in-china/
normally i'm super interested in serial killer stuff but I had to stop reading, probably because the police response was so weak
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 11:41 (twelve years ago) link
Good look at the Taiwan election result: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137029/daniel-lynch/why-ma-won-the-elections-and-whats-next-for-taiwan-and-china
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Sunday, 15 January 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.zhongnanhaiblog.com/?p=475
thanks to ilxor rent - a good summary of the differences between HK and China on the ground
― dayo, Monday, 16 January 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
I think the idea of serial killers in China scares the shit out of me because there would be no police to protect you
― dayo, Monday, 16 January 2012 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.economist.com/node/21541716
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://shanghaiist.com/2012/01/18/iconic_good_samaritan_case_in_china.php
:O :O :O
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/TKoY3j6yyyM/?resourceId=0_06_02_99
I like the way shanghaiinese sounds!
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://badcanto.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/mainland-scholar-many-hongkonger-are-dogs/
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
so uh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2uINfAKOxc
fucking A
he actually calls hongkongers 'running dogs'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_dog
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/world/asia/china-leadership-transition/index.html
― carne asada, Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:08 (eleven years ago) link
习近平 surprise.gif
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
Errr
― carne asada, Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
xi jinping, sorry
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
rolling buried alive in china 2012 btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02UMJESbwJg
― dylannn, Thursday, 15 November 2012 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
XiMay be the face I can't forgetThe trace of pleasure or regretMay be my treasure or the price I have to payXiMay be the song that summer singsMay be the chill that autumn bringsMay be a hundred different thingsWithin the measure of a day
― ざっぴ (zappi), Thursday, 15 November 2012 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
Hu are youHu HuHu Hu
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 15 November 2012 11:43 (eleven years ago) link
anyone have any recommendations for books on chinese history? i know there's thousands upon thousands of years of material, and i'm not quite sure where to start
― Spectrum, Saturday, 1 December 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
interested in a certain period?
― dylannn, Saturday, 1 December 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
i only have a vague notion of it right now. i guess i'd like to start with qin, han, and three kingdoms, and work my way through ming. i'm interested in the culture and civilization aspect, and always found china pretty damn fascinating.
― Spectrum, Saturday, 1 December 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
my focus is late imperial/modern china so i'm sure someone else can recommend better books on deep historical china but i'll throw out three
china's golden age: everyday life in the tang dynasty by charles benn. because the tang is the golden age and you need to read about the grandeur and supreme cultural development of yangzhou and xi'an during the tang.the confusions of pleasure: commerce and culture in ming china by timothy brook-- absolutely 100% best book on ming china. divided by season, each season covering roughly a century. he charts the movement from agrarian society into advanced government/commercial powerhouse. i think this is a pretty common chinese history 101 book and everyone's read about the brick-- he uses the inscriptions on a brick to trace it back to a certain kiln, explains the system of paying taxes with labour, shows how the canal systems worked. lots of non-elite perspectives, but also talks about the ming tribute system, international relations. and check out the troubled empire by brook, which deals with the mongol invasion of china, the creation of the yuan dynasty, song dynasty loyalists, the cultural influence of the yuan on the song.if you're going to be reading about the ming, i guess i like return to dragon mountain: memories of a late ming man by jonathan spence, a history of the ming through the eyes of a literatus, lots of poetry and courtesans and bureaucracy.the imperial capitals of china by arthur cotterell does a good job at overview, by skipping through the various capitals of chinese dynastic regimes, goes from the semi-mythical shang to qing dynasty beijing.
― dylannn, Saturday, 1 December 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
these are all recent, too.
if you only read one: confusions of pleasure
― dylannn, Saturday, 1 December 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
these books sound pretty cool, thanks. i love reading about what everyday life was like through history
― Spectrum, Sunday, 2 December 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
chinese ambassador on tv here notes that the graphic of china behind him is incomplete: no taiwan
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 21 December 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
Quite an interesting piece on the Chinese economy and how it has been changing
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/nathan-sperber/the-mayor-economy
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 March 2024 08:58 (three months ago) link
it was good. i liked too this nathan sperber piece on macro control: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/02/macro-control-making-sense-of-a-central-concept-in-chinese-economic-policy/.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Monday, 4 March 2024 10:28 (three months ago) link
dylan is hefei worth visiting?
― 龜, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 13:30 (three months ago) link