Comments on: Happiness was a year called 2008 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2009/01/01/happiness-was-a-year-called-2008/ China and Other things Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:03:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: rob http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2009/01/01/happiness-was-a-year-called-2008/#comment-57231 rob Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:05:22 +0000 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2009/01/01/happiness-was-a-year-called-2008/#comment-57231 Thanks Elliot, that was slack of me. Addition made. See also ESWN's translation of a <a href="http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080915_1.htm" rel="nofollow">reporter's field notes</a> from Xiangfen. Thanks Elliot, that was slack of me. Addition made. See also ESWN’s translation of a reporter’s field notes from Xiangfen.

]]> By: Elliot http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2009/01/01/happiness-was-a-year-called-2008/#comment-57163 Elliot Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:31:22 +0000 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2009/01/01/happiness-was-a-year-called-2008/#comment-57163 Excellent blog and great post. Just wanted to note that the translation omitted the September mudslide in Xiangfen, Shanxi Province. http://www.china.org.cn/government/local_governments/2008-09/12/content_16438962.htm Excellent blog and great post. Just wanted to note that the translation omitted the September mudslide in Xiangfen, Shanxi Province.

http://www.china.org.cn/government/local_governments/2008-09/12/content_16438962.htm

]]> By: Do Not Mess Around « The Foreign Expert http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2009/01/01/happiness-was-a-year-called-2008/#comment-55488 Do Not Mess Around « The Foreign Expert Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:39:33 +0000 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2009/01/01/happiness-was-a-year-called-2008/#comment-55488 [...] so on. Less triumphant was a poem published by a commenter on NetEase and translated by Black and White Cat: What is happiness? Happiness was 2008 You didn’t go to Urumqi for the New Year You didn’t go [...] […] so on. Less triumphant was a poem published by a commenter on NetEase and translated by Black and White Cat: What is happiness? Happiness was 2008 You didn’t go to Urumqi for the New Year You didn’t go […]

]]> By: rob http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2009/01/01/happiness-was-a-year-called-2008/#comment-54497 rob Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:51:10 +0000 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2009/01/01/happiness-was-a-year-called-2008/#comment-54497 I agree, Liuzhou Laowai. I think I should have written something more like "...a character that bears a very slight resemblance to..." I agree, Liuzhou Laowai. I think I should have written something more like “…a character that bears a very slight resemblance to…”

]]> By: Liuzhou Laowai http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2009/01/01/happiness-was-a-year-called-2008/#comment-54437 Liuzhou Laowai Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:14:59 +0000 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2009/01/01/happiness-was-a-year-called-2008/#comment-54437 Yes, it must be a mistake. Nothing unusual happened in Liuzhou last February. Although, I don't think the characters are so similar. 郴州 v 柳州 Yes, it must be a mistake. Nothing unusual happened in Liuzhou last February. Although, I don’t think the characters are so similar. 郴州 v 柳州

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