First, a disclaimer: this is not intended to be authoritative, or anything even near authoritative. These are merely my own opinions and observations, culled from about 5 years of studying Chinese. Take them with as large a grain of salt as you should everything else on the internet.
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…so, you want to learn Chinese?
resurgence
We’re reading A Q Zheng Zhuan, “The True Story of Ah Q” by Lu Xun, in my Modern Chinese Literature class, and while it is a wonderful story and undoubtedly one of the greatest literary works of the 20th century, it is fucking hard.
“Modern” is something of a misnomer; it’s not written in classical Chinese, [...]
the space launch
Man, after all the build-up to the launch of the Shenzhou-5 capsule yesterday, I was expecting dancing in the streets, parties in Tian’anmen Square, and all kinds of fun reactions.
Instead? Nothing. A whole fat lot of stinking nothing. The TV coverage was dull – I mean, yeah, they had interviews with the designers of the [...]