Category Archives: changing china

Ixtac, Remember?

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GoogleTranslate VS 老子.

After tracking down a free online version of the original Chinese of Laozi Dao De Qing (老子,道德经), I decided to see what my favorite verse looks like after being masicated digitally upon by the wordivore that Google. Dot com. has become with google.translate.    versus   I have left the verse number out of the [...]

Leaders

I have been ingesting large swathes of Qin Dynasty and modern Chinese history, economy and culture. It is fed directly to me trough-style in the forms of books, articles, films and lectures. This has created an intellectual digestive problem “something akin to packing a musket” (Sedaris, 88-89). I am so full of cultural soil that [...]