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Some unusual scans from a Chinese Harry Potter book.
Wacky!

An interesting post on Danwei regarding Google's translation engine making some pretty serious goofs in English/Chinese translation. This all just furthers my view that online translation continues to suck more than Jenna Jameson working overtime.

Google launched a local Chinese book search. Interestingly enough, while this service doesn’t make its censorship explicit, it’s restricted to find less Chinese books than Google’s other localized book searches because it omits Chinese books published outside of China mainland – this is disclosed at the end of search results in italics, reading “These results only include works from Mainland China.”*

Ok. So most of us are well aware of the Chinese Chat software, QQ. Chances are, if you know a Chinese person, or someone learning Chinese, you know a registered QQ user. But until recently there was no English sign-up page or a Mac version of the QQ application...

A study on rats shows that the extract of a plant commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine is an effective anti-anxiety agent.

Gou teng, or Uncaria rhynchophylla, has been used to treat infantile convulsions, headaches, dizziness, hypertension and apoplexy.

It's a new twist on globalization: For decades, Chinese made their way to the West, often illegally, to end up doing dangerous, low-paying jobs in sweatshop conditions. Now some foreigners drawn by China's growth and hunger for English lessons are landing in the schoolhouse version of the sweatshop.

This post is an account of what happens when one gets bitten by a dog in China; where to go for medical help and what ‘they’ actually do to you. Included are many useful Chinese words written in Chinese, Pinyin, and English.

This tool is used to display the phoenetic pronunciation (i.e. pinyin) when you hold the mouse over a Chinese Character. It also displays a neato HELP question mark, as well as a dotted line underneath the text to tell the readers that there’s a little something else waiting for them.

A list of essential Chinese photography vocabulary. English/Chinese/Pinyin.