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Pig Mouth
China may have fallen in love with Peppa, but the pig still has a sorry reputation in idioms and proverbs
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Bad Romance
The melodramatic writings of Qiong Yao have inspired a whole slew of slushy satire
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Performance Anxiety
Get through the ordeal of work evaluations with this handy language lesson
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Spirits of the Age
Having a big personality on the internet may get you labeled a “spirit”
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2018: The Year in Words
Reform anniversary, trade war and some slang words covered by TWOC won the Chinese word-of-the-year contest
SOCIAL CHINESE
Mansplaining with Chinese Characteristics
From cradle to crèche, women are constantly being told what to do
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Fangyan Friday #4: Pu-Xian Min
An endangered Fujianese dialect from the birthplace of Mazu, the goddess of mariners
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Back-Translating China
Why is Mao called Kun Lun? Did Sun Tzu make art or war? Translations errors of Chinese words…into Chinese
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Faint Praise
Personality, presence, and “oriental beauty”—the Chinese language has many “polite” insults about a person’s appearance
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Fangyan Friday #3: The Rap of Sichuanese
TWOC’s guide to the dialect of Deng Xiaoping—and modern Chinese hip-hop
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