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A Character-Counting Challenge

My recent post on the Wikimedia Commons Stroke Order Project prompted Mark of Toshuo.com to decry the relative dearth of traditional characters being added to the project. To this, David on Formosa reminded Mark that there are also a large number of... ...full story at Sinosplice

from Sinosplice on Thu, Sep 10 2009

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24 Apr 08 visit Devin Dearth/China Stroke Documentary  »  YouTube videoAfter suffering a devastating stroke, 40 year-old Devin Dearth travels to Tianjin, China, seeking an alternative to US health care.
03 Sep 09 visit The Wikimedia Commons Stroke Order Project  »  Sinosplice If you’ve checked out many online Chinese dictionaries or websites on learning Chinese, you’ve seen a variety of ways to present characters’ proper stroke order. Animated GIFs are a favorite, but they often fall flat in one important...
31 Aug 09 visit China's first large coal-to-gas project under construction  »  People's Daily Construction of China's first large coal-to-gas project started in northern China Sunday to ensure natural gas supply to Beijing and promote clean energy use. Located in Chifeng city of the coal-rich Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, the project...
19 May 09 visit China: Future school safety, but not the past  »  Global Voices David Bandurski from China Media Project looked into the education ministry's recent project on “secondary and primary school safety” and noticed that there was no mention at all of the collapse of shoddily constructed schools in last year’s We...
24 Apr 09 visit A retrenchment of simplified characters  »  Danwei At Language Log, Victor Mair rounds up some of the recent arguments over character simplification, including an Economist piece, a recent article in China Heritage Quarterly, and an op-ed in the Shanghai Daily. See also: Simple arguments for character...
06 Oct 09 visit HK to launch sixth free post day to mark World Post day  »  People's Daily Hong Kong will launch the "One Person, One Letter" Free Post Day on Friday for the sixth consecutive year, as an effort to encourage letter-writing and mark the World Post Day, the Hong kong Post announced on Monday. Clement Cheung, the Postmaster...

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