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STREET TALK

Cattle Class

Livestock of the world, unite!—behind this new meme for overwork

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Sept. 13, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Lunar Language

Mid-Autumn sayings about the moon

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Sept. 11, 2019

DIALECTS

Fangyan Friday #10: Sing-song Shanghaiese

A melodious and hybrid dialect shaped by a city’s storied past

Tina Xu (徐盈盈)

Sept. 6, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Doo-wop of Dewdrops

Brief and wondrous idioms about dew

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Sept. 4, 2019

STREET TALK

A Numbers Game

Decoding Chinese “internet numeral language”

Aug. 29, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Sexist Sayings

Ancient idioms were not kind to females

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Aug. 28, 2019

SOCIAL CHINESE

Artistic Pretensions

How to talk about art like a critic

Liu Jue (刘珏)

Aug. 25, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Sharp Words

Incisive idioms about one of humankind’s oldest tools

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Aug. 21, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Phantom Phrases

Spooky and spectral sayings about ghosts

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Aug. 14, 2019

DIALECTS

Fangyan Friday #9: Elegant Shaoxing

Even insults can sound refined in the dialect of this gentle Zhejiang city

Aug. 9, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Maxims on Melons

Saying about a refreshing summer fruit (and ancient love token)

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Aug. 7, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Friendly Remarks

Sayings about friendship old and new—and broken

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

July 31, 2019

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