Tom Spender

Freelance journalist & photographer in Beijing

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Entries Tagged as 'chinglish'

“Be careful of landslide”

February 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments · China

A nice – and increasingly rare – bit of Chinglish in Beijing (on the stairs up to McDs on Gongrentibeilu in Dongsishitiao). Beijing had a serious makeover in 2008 for the Olympic Games that included a purge on erratic but amusing and often poetic or thought-provoking translations from Chinese to English on public signs. The [...]

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