I’ve been trying to pick up a reading habit in Chinese (I read fine) but I really can’t undo the years of Mandarin language learning trauma from school that makes me resent it
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I’ve been trying to pick up a reading habit in Chinese (I read fine) but I really can’t undo the years of Mandarin language learning trauma from school that makes me resent it
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
If I bother at all, I try to read stuff that hasn’t been translated (yet). ‘Chao xi tu’ got me back into trying to read Mandarin literature: historical realism, southern coastal China, the ocean, and the Macanese dialect.
I also feel like I wasn’t exposed to contemporary Chinese literature in school, but it’s been hard adapting to it
Book prize spotlights uniqueness
Writer Lin Zhao, 38, won this year's Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize on Nov 9 with her work Chao Xi Tu (Picture of Tide).
(www.chinadaily.com.cn)
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Anyway, in school, English Literature was written on our timetables as E. Lit, so we were always very excited for Chinese Literature class coz
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Rev NDM 🏳️🌈 Ⓥ 🧦☮️replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte lmao
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Josh :everything_bagel:replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte but where is the class‽
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Rev NDM 🏳️🌈 Ⓥ 🧦☮️ last edited by
@revndm it was a girls’ school too
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Josh :everything_bagel: last edited by
@josh0 men can’t find it