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Katy Perry's "Green Economy" dress tickles Chinese readers – General

www.wantchinatimes.com — American singer Katy Perry was not a big winner in this year's American Music Awards, but definitely still grabbed attention for her dress which was printed with Chinese-characters.

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Fǎ Kè Yóu, River Crab or: The secret of Maorilyn Maoroe – Arts & Entertainment

www.economist.com — "THE Travelogue of Dr Brain Damages", a show of Kenneth "Tin-Kin" Hung's artwork, opened recently in Manhattan. Mr Hung's garish and busy large paintings feature images of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders juxtaposed with icons of Western culture, such as Marilyn Monroe and the Mario Brothers (of Nintendo fame).

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The Strange Abyss of Chinese Characters – Learning Chinese

confusedlaowai.com — A friend sent me an interesting string of characters the other day, that he stumbled on when his programming exercise went wrong. I set out to find the meaning behind some the characters. Chinese once again proves its long and deep history.

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When Chinese Forget how to write Characters – Humour

www.mandmx.com — Have you seen this before? How do your friends look up characters if they don't remember how to write them!?

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Pictographic design of food-related chinese characters – Learning Chinese

edge.neocha.com — An interesting take on Chinese pictographic characters in the form of food-related words. Shanghai-based Win has created a number of Chinese characters where some element or stroke of the character has been stylized in the form of the object it represents.

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Language students’ love/hate relationship with Chinese characters – Learning Chinese

chinahopelive.net — Opinions differ among language students and teachers over whether or not adult language students should bother trying to learn to write 汉字，and whether or not true literacy is really even possible.