Archives of November , 2005

Translation, Transmission, Reflection by Nicholas Jose

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Translation is a mystery, both service and craft. We put our faith in it, as we put our faith in diplomacy. While translators go about their work with invisible care, jokes about translation gone wrong plug the odd spots of newspapers and magazines. After Babel, we readily believe

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CHINESE WRITERS AND CHINA’S GREAT FAMINE

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Eager to become the leader of international communist movement, the Chinese dictator Mao Ze Dong launched a fanatic and radical economic movement —Great Leap Forward—in that year.  Mao’s goal was to make China an industrial power by surpassing the United Kingdom and

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中國作家與中國大饑荒    

Thursday, November 24, 2005

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Yahoo! Hong Kong Proves the Internet is Not Our Friend

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Signposts:

As long as there shall be stones,
The seeds of fire will not die

Lu Xun, December 1935
Cited in Seeds of Fire, Chinese Voices of Conscience
Eds. Geremie Barme and John Minford
Far Eastern Economic Review Ltd., 1986


Letting a hundred flowers blossom

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COMMON CULTURAL GROUND: BEYOND LANGUAGE [HEATHER CURNOW]

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Language clearly can be a barrier to common cultural ground in shared cultural spaces.  In a festival that I coordinated in Indonesia last year, the language differences and lack of interpretation meant that there was little possibility of sharing cultural ground; in fact, there

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