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Monthly Archives: June 2013

Shanghai

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Nick Stember

Seeing pictures of home can make it harder to speak a foreign language

Posted on June 19, 2013 by

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/06/seeing-pictures-of-home-can-make-it-harder-to-speak-a-foreign-language/

Makes a great argument for _French in Action_ inspired TV series like _Encounters_:

http://encounterschinese.com

Popular Posts

  • Don’t Call it ‘Manga’: a short intro to Chinese Comics and Manhua 漫畫
  • Chinese Lianhuanhua 連環畫: A Century of Pirated Movies
  • The Shanghai Manhua Society 上海漫畫會
  • Wu Youru 吳友如: The “First” Chinese Cartoonist
  • Jin Porn Mei 金瓶梅: Comic Book Adaptations of the Chinese Novel

Talks

  • The Fake Foreign Devil Is Great!
  • Zhang Shijie’s 張士傑 Fisher Boy 漁童: Transformative Nationalism in New China
  • Future Perfect: Ye Yonglie 葉永烈 and the Origins of Chinese Speculative Fiction
  • Turtles All the Way Down: Dr. Fix-it 改造博士, Mr. Wang 王先生and the Origins of Chinese Comics
  • Ming Dynasty Looney Tunes: Journey to the West 西游記 in Popular Culture

Reviews

  • Saving the Nation Through Twisted Means: Zhang Yimou’s 張藝謀 Great Wall 《長城》
  • Huang Shan 黃山: Ten Years of Studying Chinese and Making Comics
  • Mermaids and Ghosts: Yang Chao’s 杨超 Crosscurrent 《長江圖》
  • Literature at the Margins: Learn Chinese, Read Sci-fi
  • Putting 25 Years of Silence in Context with Comics and Animation

Translations

Completed:
  • Chinese Star Wars Comic 星球大戰 (1980)
  • Zhang Guangyu’s Manhua Journey to the West 西漫游記 (1945)
  • Manga Formosa: The Wild World of Taiwanese Comics
  • The Jia Pingwa Project 醜石: Sample Translations of Four Novels
In Progress:
  • Smarty Pants Visits the Future (1978)
Coming soon:
  • Confucius: A Life of Crime (1974)
  • Nüwa Repairs the Heavenly Mantle (1980)
  • American Imperialism Exposed! (1950)

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