Monthly Archives: August 2012

China, Translated

Posted on 23/08/2012 by haonowshaokao

Not an accurate translation in many cases – for example “Cloud South” is just an abbreviation of “South of the Cloud Ridge Mountains” – but these are the names of China’s provinces (and autonomous regions, municipalities, special administrative regions, and, … Continue reading →

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Rain. Lots of it.

Posted on 03/08/2012 by haonowshaokao

For most of July I didn’t have a VPN set up, and couldn’t post anything. At the start this wasn’t an issue as, to be fair, I hadn’t been writing much anyway (apart from the regularly scheduled Pulp blogging of … Continue reading →

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