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民以国为大 a rant…

By Skl8em | Published: September 1, 2008
The East is Red Originally uploaded by Life in Asia (aka Life in Nanning) Seeing that i was blogging chinese citations, my father asked me to blog the sentence of the title. Knowing that he had to find it somewhere on the internet (i doubt he is able to type chinese characters). After googling it, i became [...]
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善守者，藏于九地之下，善攻者，动于九天之上，故能自保而全胜也。

By Skl8em | Published: August 30, 2008
Ugh… It was tougher than i had hoped… anyway, i directly tried to translate the sentence, let’s see what i got: 善 (shàn) means well/kind or good, 守 (shǒu) is guard, and 者 (zhě ?) is roughly that which is… So we get 善守者: That which guards well,   藏 (cáng) to hide conceal 于 (yú) is a connector/ preposition 九 (jiǔ) nine 地 (dì): place/ location (I suppose [...]
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投之亡地然后存，陷之死地然后生。

By Skl8em | Published: August 21, 2008
Recently I stumbled upon this sentence. Since i was intrigued, i tried to quickly translate it through google language tools and babelfish. Since the translations made no sense whatsoever (try it by yourself, it’s rather funny), i tried harder to find out what it was. Googling for it send me to the baidu site, with [...]
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