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What’s Chinese?

Apr.09, 2007 in China, Chinese culture, Taiwan

An excellent post by Andrew Leonard over at Salon.com in his column How the World Works points to two very intertwined phenomena — what is globalization, and what is Chinese culture? Leonard, who posts from time to time on Taiwan in its global context, writes:
One of the oddities of history is that although Taiwan is [...]

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Crazed Ad in the Washington Post

Apr.03, 2007 in China, Chinese culture, Washington Post

Some guy paid $30K to have this baby put in the Washington Post. I especially like the crack that “Taiwanese” sounds like “Taiwan Ni Sui” = “Taiwan You Die”. Glad somebody is making money off this stuff.
Click on it to see the full size version on my Flickr account (click on ALL SIZES).
[Taiwan] [US] [...]

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"Chinese" New Year?

Feb.17, 2007 in China, Chinese culture, Taiwan, Taiwan independence, identity politics

Maddog at Taiwan Matters points to the debate on whether Lunar New Year should be Chinese New Year…
First, from the Liberty Times, the Chinese language Green publication:
范嘉芬提到農曆年，如果要用英文表達，幾乎絕大部份的人都會說成「Chinese New Year」（中國年），但這是錯的。正確的說法是Lunar New Year。
Fan Chia-fen observed of the agricultural new year, that if we use English to express it, most people say “Chinese New Year”, but this [...]

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