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TWOC’s guide to the dialect of Deng Xiaoping—and modern Chinese hip-hop
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Learn some key phrases from the notorious Zhejiang dialect known as the “devil’s language”
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Learn to speak like a native of Hubei’s capital with TWOC’s new regular column
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Whether you believe in it or not, astrology has a huge fan base in China
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On the Character: 治
Illness is often seen as a disease of disorder in the Chinese language, requiring firm “treatment”
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