Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Chinese Student Shaming by CNN Katie Hunt
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
A DINOSAUR, A DINOSAUR about Chinese Lack of Creativity! (CARLY FIORINA)
Hahaha...
http://atimes.com/2015/07/carly-fiorina-and-the-case-for-chinese-lack-of-creativity/
Carly Fiorina and the case for Chinese lack of creativity
China has already more millionaires than Japan, Germany, and Great Britain combined. Only in US politics, where the ruling elites belong to the dinosaurs, does the myth of Chinese lack of creativity hold its sway.
http://atimes.com/2015/07/carly-fiorina-and-the-case-for-chinese-lack-of-creativity/Friday, July 10, 2015
Is Emma Sulkowicz a Sociopath? Mattress Girl Vs Dorian Gray
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Thursday, July 9, 2015
One who is on a horseback doesn't know the sufferings of those who walk
Melissa 'Harvard Isn't Everything' Chen explains in a Huff Post blog that Harvard isn't really that important, even though she brands herself with 'Harvard' (see thumbnail below). Clever marketing. And a tat of healthy hypocrisy, I guess.
Ｇｏ ｔｏ ｍｙ quick ｒｅｓｐｏｎｓｅ ａｔ ＥＷＤ ＇Ｙｅｓ， Ｉ ｗｅｎｔ ｔｏ Ｈａｒｖａｒｄ． Yes，that ｄｏｅｓ ｍａｔｔｅｒ．＇
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Oxford's New Global Language Initiative Celebrates Segregation and Purity of Languages
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| Read: Celebrating Segregation and Purity of Languages |
OXFORD - British nostalgia about its lost Empire and the good-old European world order in which the races, cultures, and languages were clearly separated (and must remain so, in the eyes of Anglophone scholarship across the world, sadly) reflects in its recent ambition to "curate the content of 100 languages" under the misleading project title: 'Oxford's New Global Initiative'. The content in question, of course, already exists. It is just a sneaky attempt at content farming under one's own OUP brand. This aside, this talk about the future of 'Global Language' it's a blatant rip-off of your author's philosophies, published widely and generously across the globe. But while it is flattering to see one's ideas influencing the way we are going to write in the future, it is heart-breaking to see that Oxford Press "borrows" and abuses certain key words and tags such as "Global Language" for its own perverted, ideological cause to keep the world languages segregated, instead of uniting them into one single future global language, as the original philosophy was intended:
The vocabularies of the world’s languages do not overlap, they add up. Translation is something else. It is a form of cultural genocide. Oxford University Press must find the “untranslatables” of each culture, its names, brands, and originalities, and introduce them into the Future Global Language. --The East-West-Dichotomy.com
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Chinese Medicine Terms in the English language
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| Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD, writes about Chinese terminologies and global language (Image: FLP Beijing, 2013) |
As you note, China being richer is fundamental. This means a larger number of students able to afford study, and able to become scholars and writers and other producers and interpreters of Chinese knowledge able to communicate in English (as well as other non-Chinese languages) and in Chinese. It takes years of personal effort and institutional support to nurture scholars and talents. A richer and more economically vibrant Chinese society generates opportunities for careers for individuals seeking to tap into this economy. This provides opportunities for not only the population of ethnic Chinese, but also non-ethnic Chinese. Scholars like Professor Pattberg who have devoted years of their lives to Chinese studies play an enormous part in helping people understand the significance of Chinese intellectual and cultural traditions.
This doesn't "just happen" as a result of China becoming wealthier – after all, individuals need to choose to study these fields, to find meaning in what they do, and the subject matter needs to be intellectually enriching for them to build a professional scholarly career upon. But of course, the wonderful thing is that the richness of Chinese traditional intellectual culture (including the period in the last 150 years as it has confronted western and modern traditions, as well as the fracturing of Chinese social and political institutions under the onslaught of Western (and Japanese) imperialism) provides so much of interest to the scholar that there is an endless profusion of material on which to generate new ideas and new knowledge for consumption in education, cultural and markets for applied knowledge.
One of the areas in which we have seen a proliferation of "Chinese terminology" in English language during the past few decades are terms relating to Chinese martial arts and medicine. The terms "kung fu", "qi", "Tai chi (Taiji)", "yin yang", "tao" (dao) and "feng shui" have become almost commonplace English language concepts."
by DeWang [Sourcetext]
Monday, June 15, 2015
How to translate Chinese ideological and cultural terms? New book illuminates the humanities!
It took over 70 professors two years... finally it's getting published in June 2015!
《中华思想文化术语》正式出版
《中华思想文化术语》（第一辑）将于2015年6月由外语教学与研究出版社出版发行。作为《中华思想文化术语》系列丛书的第一本，该书收录了首批100条体现中华传统人文精神及核心价值的思想文化术语，涵盖文艺、历史、哲学三大学科领域。这些术语均提供了简明中文释义和英文翻译。
2013年12月，经国务院批准，设立“中华思想文化术语传播工程”（以下简称“工程”），确立以北京外国语大学和外研社为依托，协同国内外70余位文、史、哲等学科及英语翻译领域的专家学者共同开展中华思想文化术语的梳理、筛选、诠释和翻译工作。 [...]
Thursday, June 11, 2015
We are told that "America won WWII"; We are not told that Germany lost the war at the gates of Stalingrad (Eric Arnow)
MOSCOW/SEVASTOPOL – Eric Arnow, from Boston Massachusetts, USA, is a Zen Buddhist with Russian Roots who traveled extensively, and over long periods of time, in China, Japan, and Thailand. In May 2015, he decided to visit Russia, travelling from Moscow to Sevastopol in the Crimean peninsula. Here are his impressions:
“I think the story I sent you speaks for itself, how I decided to go to Russia.
My name is Eric Arnow. 66 yo, I grew up in Boston Massachusetts, USA. My 4 grandparents, from one or another part of the Russian empire, came to the US in early 20th century, to either escape difficult political, or economic situation there.
I studied Buddhism for 40 years–Zen Buddhism as practiced in Japan.
Came to Thailand in 2004, Spent a lot of time in China to find my Zen roots, from 2007-14.
But maybe due to my ancestral roots, felt affinity with Russia and the situation in that area. So, when I heard that the West was dissing Russia after all it went through, I thought it would be a good thing to see for myself what is going on, meet and make friends. A One Man Peace Army.
That’s it in a nutshell.” –Eric Arnow, 2015
A Traveler’s Impressions from Western-sanctioned Russia (Part 1) – by Eric Arnow
Russia and the West hold different views on World History (Part 2) – by Eric Arnow
Posted with permission by the author. Eric Arnow can be reached at https://bumblebuddhist.wordpress.com/
©2015 Eric Arnow
Monday, June 8, 2015
Western Powers and Japan up in Arms against Mighty China (1890/2015 Western Imperialism)
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Pattberg geht hart mit westlichen 'China Experten' ins Gericht
"Thorsten Pattberg geht in der Asia Times hart mit westlichen "China-Experten" ins Gericht. Deren Methoden scheinen die Grenzen wissenschaftlich und politisch motivierter Streitkultur leider deutlich zu überschreiten..... Sehr empfehlenswert."
Source: MediaWatch - Fundstuecke im Internet
Source: MediaWatch - Fundstuecke im Internet
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