If you’ve ever studied Chinese and then tried to understand someone from Sichuan, or Xinjiang, or pretty much any city, you know that for most people there is not a single language called “Chinese.” Standard Chinese, known as Mandarin in English, or Putonghua (普通话）in, uh, Mandarin, became the official national language of China in 1912 [...]
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A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a Chinese message board that had comments on my blog, and more prominently, a few others (Danwei, CLB etc.) I dutifully posted the comments on Cup of Cha, but when I went back, I noticed that one of the Chinese posters had copied my post, making it available [...]
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Imagine my surprise when I ran across a Chinese discussion board that made reference to my blog (my old one too in fact). As I scrolled through the comments I realized that they were writing about a lot of the blogs that I know. When I tried use Google to find more similar discussions nothing [...]
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