Archive for February 11th, 2010

Disconstruction and Reconstruction of a Term

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Chinese President Hu Jintao instructed the country’s leading officials and Party cadres to place “building a harmonious society” top on their work agenda, when addressing a high-level Party seminar.

- People’s Daily, June 27, 2005

harmonious society: 和谐社会

和: hé

Explanation: 禾 (phonetic part) + 口 (radical part)

English translation: harmony, peace

禾: hé

Explanation: a wood 木 with a fringe on the top

English translation: standing grain, cereal

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Song of White Snow

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Song of White Snow in Farewell to Secretary Wu Returning to the Capital

Cen Shen

The north wind sweeping the ground snapping the pallid grasses;

In Tartar’s sky an eight-month snow has come to pass.

As though a sudden spring gale rolled past overnight

Bringing thousands upon thousands of pear trees bloom white. (more…)

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