Archive for February, 2008
AUSTRALIA: Rise of India and China pose policy challenge - 29/02/2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008Some of Australia’s top thinkers will meet at a summit to be convened by the Australian Government in Canberra next month. They will discuss ten critical areas that will shape Australia to 2020 and beyond. They include Australia’s future security in a rapidly changing region. The leader of that discussion will be Professor Michael Wesley, […]
What’s in a Chinese name?
Friday, February 29th, 2008 There’s two ways of traslating English names in Chinese:
1. Sound translation: Stephen Smith (shi di wen, shi mi si)
2. Use the sound of English name and put in Chinese characters which have meanings. For example, Kevin Rudd (Lu Kewen. Lu is the surname, Ke meaning overcome, master, wen meaning literature or language). Janice […]
U.S. Defense Chief and Australians Insist Alliance Is Strong
Monday, February 25th, 2008This from the New York Times: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and top Australian officials insisted Saturday that the security alliance between the United States and Australia had not frayed despite Australia’s recent pledge to remove all combat forces from Iraq …They also brushed aside questions about whether Australia’s growing economic ties to China would […]
Gates sees continuity in US relations with Australia
Monday, February 25th, 2008Caught this article about US/Australian/Chinese relationson the SBS News website…
Stolen generations apology makes news in China
Thursday, February 14th, 2008News of the Rudd Government’s apology to the stolen generations made headlines worldwide, including half a dozen articles on the chinaview.cn website - check out the main one here.
Lu Kewen: ‘like a big brother next door’
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008I just caught this snippet on The Australian website from Lin Guanzhen, translation editor of Rudd Biography: “Through the biography, I have gained a feeling that Lu Kewen is like a big brother next door — born in a poor family, one of several children, worked hard, like any poor family in China. I think […]
Lu Kewen Bio hits the blogsphere
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Australian political blogger Ninglun blogs about the Chinese reaction to the LuKewen biography.
Rudd translates into a legend
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008Rowan Callick, The Australian newspaper’s Chinese correspondent reports that the Chinese translation of Kevin Rudd’s biography is proving quite popular.
“THE latest Chinese blockbuster is not about a boy wizard, although the hero of the tale looks a bit like him. Appropriately, for the Chinese Year of the Rat, it’s about a politician - Lu Kewen, […]
China hails the legends of Rudd
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008The Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt blogs about the ‘legends’ of Kevin Rudd as published in the Chinese translation of his biography. View the comments at the Herald Sun website.