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Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Nitpicking Media's Coverage of PRC's 60th Anniversary Parade

Sat, 3 Oct 2009 21:33:21 +0000

@FOARP, I just want to point it out that there is a disconnect if you do literal translation from Chinese to English or vice versa. Language is a living thing. Phrases such as \\\"paper tiger\\\" and \\\"running dogs\\\" would not carry their current meanings without Mao using them. I assume that the term \\\"goose step\\\" does not make sense to a native English speaker who has never heard of it, either.

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Nitpicking Media's Coverage of PRC's 60th Anniversary Parade

Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:40:42 +0000

In translation

正步 standard step
鹅步 goose step

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Sustaining Fools Mountain

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:59:22 +0000

@uln, Thanks for your kind help! Since blog4china is a mirrored domain, it is different from just a redirect. Do you know how GFW detect that? Could it be a content filter? We had an internal discussion on running ads on the site. The reason we don\\\'t want to do it is that 1) it encroaches front page real estate and distracts readers. 2) As you said, the income from ads will cover hosting fees but not enough for anything else.

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Buffett praise for Chinese suits

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:04:02 +0000

@Tony, I did not see any pictures associated with the post. Here is a link to the WSJ article which includes the video and a slide show. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12537407178283532...

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Sound Unlimited!

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:39:14 +0000

Sweet Home Beijing
How an expat guitarist formed a band and toured China playing bilingual blues

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203...

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Letter:Why is western democracy fundamentally wrong ?

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:27:15 +0000

@Steve,

Yes, PBS is quite independent, but not always, at least in the Children\\\'s program department. ;)

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2040
PBS has pulled an episode of the children\\\'s show Postcards From Buster that includes children with lesbian mothers. The episode was yanked the same day that PBS received a letter from new Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings condemning the episode and asking PBS to \\\"strongly consider\\\" returning the federal money that went toward its production.

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Sustaining Fools Mountain

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:27:19 +0000

@DeWang,

Thanks for putting this up.

@justkeeper,

I think that our ultimate goal is to go beyond just \\\"sustain\\\", but to grow and develop. The web hosting part costs a few hundred a year,and we have no problem paying for it even without outside help. On the other hand, to produce high quality content requires significant time commitment. And I have heard more than once from our volunteers that time spent for FM affected their real job performance. Recently a reader suggested that we should improve our translation quality and consider hiring a professional translator or a copy editor. It would be a great way to relieve/distribute burden among our editors, but we can not do it without financial wherewithal. For me personally, I spend several hours a day to maintain/upgrade/test/backup/provide tech support, and I have a dream that one day the task can be delegated to a real web professional. :)

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Chen Shui Bian Gets Life

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:07:03 +0000

Chen Shui-bian to sue Obama and Gates in US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/natio...

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Censored again - probably by Raj

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:12:47 +0000

Just to make it clear, our internal consensus is to not delete off-topic comments but merely collapsing them. With that said, I don\\\'t want to deprive individual authors the leeway to moderate their own threads, although moderators should be aware that damage and distraction caused by deletion are often greater than those deleted comments.

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Translation:Can you provide an example to refute this senior fellow?

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:16:55 +0000

@ Neon Rabbit #43
According to the author, the US does not meet the criteria as it only allowed blacks to effectively vote from 1965 on.

@Steve #56
Olympic protest grannies escape punishment as order revoked
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gPX3_HIMhC4rK...

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Translation:Can you provide an example to refute this senior fellow?

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:20:30 +0000

@DeWang and Steve

We has a thread dedicated to this topic last year.

http://blog.foolsmountain.com/2008/08/14/are-the-...

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Open Thread

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:37:04 +0000

In light of constant abuses of the comment voting system, I have to limit the voting rights to moderators only. If you are willing to serve as a moderator, please send me an email. Meanwhile, we have added posting voting feature and that is open to all.

Fools Mountain: Blogging for China : Translation:Can you provide an example to refute this senior fellow?

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:24:59 +0000

@Steve,

Great find! There is also a video documentation of this China-West Intellectual Summit.

http://www.glasshouseforum.org/news_film_chinamodel_teaser.html

Chapter 1: Is there a China model? - an intellectual summit

Chapter 2: China and the economic crisis - comparison between the crises of 1997 and 2008

Chapter 3: China and the economic crisis - will China become less dependent on Western demand?

Chapter 4: The nature of the system - capitalism and socialism

Chapter 5: The nature of the system - the question of legitimacy

Chapter 6: The nature of the system - fragility or resilience?

Chapter 7: The future of the system - ideology or pragmatism?

Quotes from the film

"I think that China may be the first major economy that emerges from this crisis." Wei-Wei Zhang, Fudan University in Shanghai

"It does seem to me that the Chinese government faces a particular problem in a way most developed countries’ governments don’t so acutely in that its success has been measured so much in terms of economic growth." Simon Long, The Economist

"China is a one party system. A one party system needs a crisis." Yongnian Zheng, National University of Singapore

"I’m surprised how much socialist values have been incorporated into people’s value system."Shaoguang Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

"The government is looking to Confucianism partly as a way of making sense of what it’s doing, partly as a way of inspiring people." Daniel A. Bell, Tsinghua University in Beijing

"Certainly from our Chinese participants, there seems to be quite a lot of confidence in the Chinese economic model’s ability to withstand the shock coming from the United States. Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

"I think corruption could be the fatal flaw in the Chinese case." Vivienne Shue, Oxford University

"The system is everything from Confucianism to punk and therefore cannot possibly be summarised in any single ism." Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford University

"China is still a developing country and it has a long way to go." Azar Gat, Tel Aviv University