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September 21, 2011

Slipping in out of foreign tongues with Yang Ying and Sherard Cowper-Coles

In the pod this week, Yang Ying’s polyglottish music. And Sherard Cowper-Coles’ polyglottish diplomacy. Music as Language Yang Ying grew up in the 1960s and 1970s during China’s Cultural Revolution. It was a time when people deemed enemies of communism … Continue reading →

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May 17, 2011

Ai Weiwei’s translator, Belgium during linguistic wartime, and Rastamouse

Arrested Chinese artist Ai Weiwei wrote a blog that was, if anything, even more provocative than his art. We hear from Beijing-based translator and art critic Lee Ambrozy who has translated Ai’s blog posts into English. Next in the pod, … Continue reading →

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November 20, 2009

Spelling Obama in Chinese, oratory, and chop suey love

How do you spell Obama in Chinese? Depends who you are. The Chinese news media spell it 奥巴马 (àobāmǎ). But the US Embassy in Beijing recently launched a campaign to change it to 欧巴马 (ōubāmǎ). Why no agreement? The embassy … Continue reading →

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Tagged as bbc, Beijing, chengyu, China, Chinese, Chinese language, chop suey, Confucius, Eating Sideways, Flower Drum Song, Hu Jintao, international news, James Lilley, Japanese language, language, Marilyn Chin, Obama, oratory, Patrick Cox, People's Republic of China, politics, pri, pri's the world, public radio, spell, The World in Words, United States, United States Ambassador to China, wgbh

October 26, 2009

Twitter freedom, a zeitgeisty Chinese word, and Lakota immersion

Question: what happens when a court gags a newspaper? Answer: The gag sags, 140 characters at a time. That’s what happened this month when microbloggers tweeted what The Guardian couldn’t report. Plus, they tweeted that The Guardian couldn’t report that … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Beijing

Slipping in out of foreign tongues with Yang Ying and Sherard Cowper-Coles

Spelling Obama in Chinese, oratory, and chop suey love

Twitter freedom, a zeitgeisty Chinese word, and Lakota immersion

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