China
China is the most populous country in the world, with almost 1.5 billion people, and also one of the world’s leading superpowers. It comes up a lot in the Australian news, being both our largest trading partner, but also a country that our defence leadership appears afraid of. China has a long and rich history, and currently has a state capitalist system with a dictatorial government.
Wiki
- : 🪴 Bopomofo: Bopomofo, aka Zhuyin, is a writing system sometimes used for Chinese languages in order to write the sounds …
- : 💬 Chinese characters: Chinese languages are typically written in Chinese characters, which are logograms where each one represents a …
- : 💬 Manchu: Manchu, one of the Tungusic languages, is very historically prestigious; many important documents from Chinese history …
Links
- : 🇨🇳 Link: “Today’s Protests in China Have Been Years in the Making”
- : 💬 Link: “Michael Cannings (@formosaphile): How many competing writing systems can one language have? …”
- : 🇨🇳 Link: “A million-word novel got censored before it was even shared. Now Chinese users want answers.”
- : 🇨🇳 Link: “She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed.”
- : 🇨🇳 Link: “The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps”
- : 🇨🇳 Link: “How China’s Labor Migrants Write Poetry in the Workshop of the World”
- : 🇨🇳 Link: “Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China”
- : 🇨🇳 Link: “What should socialists say about China?”
- : 🇨🇳 Link: “Tiananmen Square Tank Man vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, other search engines – even in America”
- : 🚊 Link: “The road to electric is filled with tiny cars”
Book Reviews
- : 📚 Book review: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (★★½)
- : 📚 Book review: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (★★★★)
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.