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Weren't impressed with Chinese Pod the first time you tried it out? It's worth another look. This review details the dramatic improvements it's made in the last few months.
I remember one of the things that I really enjoyed when I was still actively studying Chinese (as opposed to “learning by osmosis,” or being lazy, which is more or less all I do anymore) was finding new characters that were just flat-out cool. Wenlin helped with this, since its character dictionary has got all sorts of obscure, variant, mutant, and otherwise rare characters, characters that don’t get to play with the cool kids in the GB2312 chars...
Struggling to make your way through China's websites and Chinese online content? This article provides a comprehensive collection of Mozilla Firefox plugins to help non-Chinese easily read online Chinese content.
Remember the Peking Man? Well, almost 80 years later and archaeologists in Henan Province have found a skull dating back to a time 80-100,000 years ago...
Slavoj Zizek: Before we explode in rage that Chinese Communist totalitarianism now wants to control even the lives of its subjects after their deaths, we should remember that such measures are not unknown to European history.
Professor Lonnie B. Hodge writes an open letter to his students about what he hopes they will learn from being in his classes and about the conditions of education his students will face in the future.
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.BIZ allows Chinese characters to be entered in domain names. .CN already does it and .COM, .NET and .ORG don't seem far away. Has 好好.com been registered yet? Don't get screwed, stay informed.
If you're studying Chinese or translating between English and Chinese then software can make your life a whole lot easier. The article includes a summary of applications for studying and translating Chinese, including links and small screenshots.
A slightly more positive story to many we have heard lately. Two groups of people are cycling from Athens to Beijing, one group is well organised, supported and sponsored and the other seems to be operating on a boot-string and determination.
Jack Perkowski, author of Managing the Dragon, says you don’t need to speak Chinese, but have good business sense and a sense of food humor. From a podcast produced in Beijing with the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
When they arrived into the Guangzhou station from the HK Train, they were told that their visa would have to be canceled and they would be on their last 30 day stay and they would have to go back home to get an extension or a new visa!
A hilarious post by ChouChou at Sinocidal giving you a number of reasons, with examples, of why NOT to learn Chinese. "Being able to understand Chinese just means that you can understand the lies and excuses fed to you everyday. The more fluent you are, the more elaborate these excuses will becom
Like in any culture, the best way to get to know someone is to sit down to the table and share a meal with them.
Perhaps this will explains why it is so hard for Indians and Chinese to do business...
Lee Kuan Yew ponders Sinapore's return to the motherland - but that isn't China.
There is a new Chinese test for non-native speakers of Mandarin who are studying Mandarin.
The test will be for ...
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