#Mandarin

RajiAiyer

RajeAiyer

1932 - US map of China,note how small China was actually before it started forcibly occupying/swallowing other nationsSumul Sinha,Mandarin speaking diplomat (he was an IFS officer),had warned Nehru about the

jun

whoiszhu

only in the intellectual wasteland known as the west would people be convinced that re-education and vocational training is sinister they’re literally learning vocational skills for jobs so they can

Mike Gow 高英智

mikeygow

For me the litmus test is this. If anyone you don’t know tells you 哎呀！你说汉语说得这么好啊！太棒了你！or words to that effect, your Chinese is an amusing interruption to the mundanity of their

Melissa Chan

melissakchan

I'm in a Taiwanese-run room in Clubhouse where 4,000 Mandarin speakers — including Uyghurs and Han Chinese IN CHINA, and outside are talking about... everything. From surveillance, to friends who've

one more voice

morinotsuma

Watched Shūbun/Scandal (Kurosawa, 1949) with @sforrest this evening. What a great film. *Such* an affirming view of humanity, in spite of our weaknesses and flaws, and such breathtaking cinematography. https://asakiyume.dreamwidth.org/9534

Frankie Huang

ourobororoboruo

#PutongWords: 铲屎官 (chǎnshǐguān): "officer of poop scooping", a self-derogatory title Chinese pet owners give themselves which refers to the sense of being owned by their cats. As it happens

Catie Lilly

catielila

In a final-round interview for a postdoc (to teach pre-modern European history at an Asian university that shall remain nameless), I was asked by the committee if I could recite

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

How do you explain the Trinity in Chinese? If you're a Christian in Tang China, there's a few ways! I'm @ChenHuailun, back for my last #Twittistorian thread, this time on

Stringer Bell

croydonruntings

thread of the top 15 beats from the greatest hiphop producer of all time on his 47th bday 15: It’s Like That (Outro) 14: Ma Dukes 13: Love Is 12:

M. Taylor Fravel

fravel

Big news — the good folks from ⁦@CASI_Research⁩ have posted a complete and downloadable translation of an important Chinese military text, the 2013 edition of the Science of Military Strategy

兔兒神

chenchenwrites

thinking about how “restraint” is often prescribed in writing. how this concept seems rooted in an anglo masculinist stoicism. related to the fear of “sentimentality” and the principle of “less

America-China Watcher

PandemicTruther

HK plight in a nutshell:HK has always been part of China. There's no such thing as imperial aggression.In 1839~42, Britain waged war on China forcing open its doors in the

jo🔆// genshin GA 📌

mangoklee

Happy Lunar New Year! This year we celebrate the Year of the Ox, an animal that represents strength and resilience! In a tough time bc of the pandemic, let's all

Ta'o Collective

Tao_Collective

[[What do we call it? You should call it this!Another damn OOC thread about Hokkien because it's so hard to stay IC with these patay-headsTag: @tanchunkiet @catielila @joshiunn @Bad_Linguistics @brianhioe

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

moutet

You're barely scratching the surface here. The truth is that French regional accents (and patois) *were* ruthlessly suppressed under the Third Republic. Yet they were killed off by television, not

cyan ✨ 愚妹

pumpkinpaix

hello everyone. i'm one of the ao3 tag wranglers for mdzs, and I have several things to say in response to recent discussion. all opinions are my own, i do

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