Thursday, August 28, 2014

Nouveaux riches and pollutants in new Chinese dictionary

BEIJING, Aug 28 – A new Chinese dictionary backed by the national language regulator offers a glimpse into the social and environmental concerns of the citizenry, adding nearly 100 phrases to the lexicon, a report said Thursday. The additions to the third edition of the Standard Dictionary of Modern Chinese “underscore characteristics of the time”, […]

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