Archive for January 28th, 2006
Lunar New Year’s Eve
Some topical things:
Beijing made firecrackers legal again.
NY Times’ Jennifer 8. Lee writes on the memories of NYC Chinatown(s):
There is no consistent name for “Chinatown” in Chinese. Newspapers use one name, popular speech uses others. At the Canal Street subway station on Broadway the chosen translation is delicately pixeled together from colorful tiles: “huabu.” [...]
Posted: January 28th, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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