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Translation by me. Pinyin and Jyutping provided below.   寒谷春生，熏叶气、玉筒吹谷。 Hán gǔ chūnshēng, xūn yè qì, yù tǒng chuīgǔ. hon4 guk1 ceon1 saang1...

  I've seen this poem making the rounds in poetry circles in English with the translation by Arthur Waley. As talented as Arthur Waley i...

This is a translation of the first 4 verses of 陪鄭廣文遊何將軍山林十首 (Ten Verses on Accompanying Zheng Guang-Wen Travelling in General He's Mount...

The hands of a Chinese construction worker who left home aged 12 to support his family Yongfu Lament 永福路换歌 举起皴裂如砂纸般的双手， I raise thes...

This is an extremely famous story that all Chinese people will have in their collective unconscious, much like western nursery rhymes or fa...

The Artist 艺术家 一个红卫兵打死了 我的叔公 在四十二年 以前的 昨夜。 A Red Guard shot my great-uncle last night, forty-years ago.  这发生在 太阳刚开始向 层层...

This is a translation of the short story 镜听 from the Qing compendium 聊斋志异, which introduces the interesting custom of listening to mirrors. ...

As I am well past the halfway mark of my year in China I have spent a lot of time thinking about my friends and family back home in Englan...

I'll concede Mandarin probably wasn't the first language to pop into your head after reading the title, but for the Chinese, love so...

With 2013 fast approaching (or upon us, depending on when you read this), now is the time to reflect on the happenings of the past year an...