Lost in Chinese / Found in Translation.

. Something happened yesterday (Sunday) that made me wrote this instead of what I had intended. It had to do with the messy election of the ...

“For five bushels of grain 为五斗米折腰 wèi wǔ dǒu mǐ zhéyāo , I bow like a servant.” This was the lament of Tao Qian (365 or 372-427) 陶潜 táo qi...

The other famous saying from the Three Kingdoms should of course belong to none other than Zhuge Liang (please refer to earlier post). But s...

Cao Cao 曹操 Cáo Cāo (155-220), the chancellor of Eastern Han is another central figure in the story of the Three Kingdom. He was often port...

Wanderlust in her comment said that another Chinese character for smell is 闻 'wen' which consist of an 耳 (ěr) 'ear' insi...

As we flew over the South China Sea, we talked about the famous strategist of the “Romance of the Three Kingdom” 三国演义 [Sānguó yǎnyì] fame ...

My boss continued with the story of how Hán Yù 韩愈 (768-824) n. a leading Tang statesman, philosopher and poet warned the crocodile in a d...

2.30 am this morning (Monday 3 Mar), cruising at 36,000 feet, halfway through my return from Shenzhen to KL, my boss seated next to me said ...