[AICT] Net friends: Follow Chairman Hu and continue the struggle

Another Chinese translation- a not-so subtle appeal to China’s online patriotic sensibilities. The last part of the translation got very rocky!

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Edited: October 9th, 2009

Adventures in Chinese translation: Tibet auntie recalls asking Hu Jintao to dance: She was nervous!

Here’s an article from Xinhua that I translated. I am by no means a Chinese translation pro-star, so don’t go citing this in your dissertations or anything. And BTW, I tend to gravitate towards the feel-good, love-your-country articles because there’s a certain camp quality to them- nay, a ‘Growing Pains’ feel to them. In fact, the lyrics: ‘Show me that smile againnnnnnn’ were looping through my head when translating this.

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Edited: October 6th, 2009