Tag: translation

Typography Design

Digitally Typesetting Rare, Ancient and Esoteric Chinese Characters

Posted on by Jason Li

The short answer

Install the BabelStone Han font, which supports “57,000 Han characters… [and] includes many rare or archaic characters that are not found in most CJK fonts” on your computer. Then look up the character on Unicode’s Unihan Database Lookup website (using the Stroke-Radical Index) and copy-and-paste it from there.

Update: Andrew West, the maintainer…

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Online translation communities in China, a brief overview

Posted on by Jason Li

From Chuan Yu’s Online Translation Communities in Chinese Cyberspace [we’ve added screenshots of the sites mentioned for extra context]:

Since the arrival of the Internet about 30 years ago, the practice of translation has also moved online. A number of online translation communities have been established for various purposes. In general, there are two types: audio-visual and text-oriented translation communities.…

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automated translation + SEO –> poetry

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

The corners of the internet are lovely, dark and deep…Every now and then you come across content from China or Taiwan that has been run through automated English translation and search engine optimization, resulting in unbelievable thousand-monkeys-on-a-typewriter poetry, which may or may not be dangerous to your computer, just saying. My favorite, which now unfortunately only tells you the seven shocking foods that will…

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Chinese Mothers are Forced to be Tiger Moms

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My Country My People translates a great article from China’s Southern Weekly. My favorite points:

In Sun Yat-Sen University Professor Feng Zengjun’s view, the core of American education is freedom, which “levels up excellent ones, but also brings down lazy ones”. Thus, it’s easy to understand why Americans perform poorly on average scores but succeed in cultivating…

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Virtual China

understanding Chinese nationalism online: the telegraph and the internet

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

If you read one book about the Chinese Internet this year (and, yes, there aren’t very many are there?), let it be Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, the Internet, and Political Participation in China, by U. Wisconsin Madison’s anthropology professor Zhou Yongming (Stanford Press, 2006). The book is actually a good read–not always the case for an academic monograph–and juxtaposes the…

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Virtual China

history, future, cultural archaeology of Shenzhen in a blog

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Just spent time in Shenzhen with my old friend Maryann O’Donnell.  If you are interested in the development of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in particular, or more broadly in how to read historical, political, economic and social movements in a rapidly changing urban landscape, you will want to be reading her blog, Shenzhen Fieldnotes. You can learn more about her other…

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