Category: Chinese
Review of The Art of War by Sun Tzu (translated by Lionel Giles)
I’d bet far more people have heard of this influential Chinese classic than have read it.
Review of Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows
This is a short, entertaining, accessible book on an interesting topic.
Review of The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)
It’s as if Kafka decided to write a book with Carl Sagan, M.C. Escher, and the author of Flatland, and set it in China.
Review of The Origins of Chinese Characters by Wang Hongyuan
Ever wondered what etymology is like in the Chinese language?
Signaling tense and aspect
Singlish sometimes uses the word ‘already’ twice in the same sentence. Why?
Why Chinese is hard
7. “There are too many [romanization methods], and most of them were designed either by committee or by linguists, or — even worse — by a committee of linguists.”
Object dropping
Some utterances in Singlish can seem incomplete.
Must Chinese be visual?
[Chinese characters ten-thousand years!]
Long live the Chinese characters!
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