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December 24, 2013
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China Simplified: Hardest Chinese Character

Our Favorite Chinese Phrases (pt.1)

By Stewart Lee Beck | Language | No Comments
According to the Beijing Chinese Character Study Bureau, there are exactly 91,251 Chinese characters in use today, from which one could derive an almost infinite number of words and expressions....
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November 17, 2013
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China Simplified: Chinese concept of Face

Face, the final frontier

By Stewart Lee Beck | Language | No Comments

The Chinese language is ripe with delicious ambiguities.  One of the most debatable of all is the word miàn zi 面子 meaning “face” or dignity or reputation, but such definitions somehow…

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