Archive for March, 2005

Forbidden City Photos

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Due to desperate avoiding of work (a particularly dull translation which requires me to acquire vocabulary like 'slops' and 'cooling tower'), here are 3 photos from a recent trip to the Forbidden City here in Beijing.

Translation

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

Translation I did for PressInterpreter.org on control of Beijing's migrant population from an original article on Caijing.
Press Interpreter looks like a very promising site, and it ties in with some stuff that I do anyway (ie, idly sitting around reading a Chinese newspaper) so I may well contribute some more stuff. My current question [...]

Signese.com

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

Finished a site today which I've been thinking about for months and working on off-and-on for about two weeks, Signese.com. Basically, it's simply a collection of photos featuring Chinese characters, which I take as I wander around Beijing.
Many, if not all, of the photos are not actually very aesthetically pleasing - I'm not a [...]

Newsinchinese.com

Monday, March 14th, 2005

Newsinchinese.com originally started up almost exactly a year ago. I'd surf through Chinese news sites, and if I saw an interesting story post an English summary and a link. It was a great idea, and like many of my great ideas it died when I just sort of lost interest.
NewsinChinese.com is now, however, relaunched. [...]