Adventures in Translation
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Chinese nursery rhymes!

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Over the last few months I have been learning some Chinese nursery rhymes ( 童谣 tóng​ yáo ) ​and children's songs to sing to Liam. Obvi...
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Monday, June 25, 2012

The most awesome tomb ever

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 The fabled tomb of Qin Shihuang might look like this. (from China Cultural Heritage ) Ancient tombs and burial treasures are awesome...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Chinese name for baby!

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Me and the kids A name is very important. It gives a person a basis for their identity, at least their identity as their parents saw...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

A Tale of Two Treasures

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The legends of these two treasures point to the first emperor of China, Qin Shihuang. This recounts the legends of two of China...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Art Attack! Xu Beihong

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 Spring Rain on the Li River , by Xu Beihong, 1937 I recently took a trip to the Denver Art Museum to check out the exhibit on the C...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012

V26, Yeah!

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[Due to popular demand, here is the story of my most successful foray into acting while in China. The following took place in like 1998.] ...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Good Mourning! The Professional Mourner, or Ku Sang Ren

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Recent video footage of North Korean citizens weeping uncontrollably in the frigid streets of Pyongyang got me thinking: Are these people...
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Benjamin
Denver area, Colo., United States
I'm a 30-something writer/editor, currently living in Colorado. Here are some of my adventures, coming from the perspective an American who lived in China, between 1994-1999. NOTE: If you can't read the characters in the posts, try switching the Encoding (under Page in IE, or View in Firefox) to Unicode.
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