大山, DaShan, (Big Mountain) aka Mark Rowswell is a Canadian who started studying Mandarin in the mid-1980s and has about 40 episodes of a CCTV series titled ’Communicate in Chinese.’ DaShan is quite well known by all Chinese as a caucasian who speaks Mandarin like a local. I’ve just started to listen to the episodes in the [...]
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I love dim sum
Inspired by Luxirare‘s Dim Sum series… I had to give it a shot. But my photo skills just aren’t quite there…. Having a look at my series afterwards, the images don’t even come close in comparison to my inspiration. They just aren’t as interesting as I’d hoped. Perhaps the composition of the photos could be [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on August 16, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/08/i-love-dim-sum/
Designboom launches Chinese site
Designboom has just launched a version of it’s site in Chinese with translations of the same original English content! (Though, I can’t seem to match the content up…) Anyways, have a look at the chinese version http://cn.designboom.com Designboom 现在有中文的网站！看看。
Posted by Tiffany Wan on July 16, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/07/designboom-launches-chinese-site/
Shanghai Tang
If you don’t know about Shanghai Tang, (in addition to the Chinese translation of Shanghai’s Bund), it’s a high-end fashion brand that uses traditional Chinese design to influence it’s lifestyle and fashion products. Shanghai Tang is the first luxury brand emerging from China. Its design mission is to revitalise Chinese innovation and to interweave it with [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on June 24, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/06/shanghai-tang/
movie titles lost in translation
via TimeOut
Posted by Tiffany Wan on April 21, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/04/movie-titles-lost-in-translation/