@bokane.org Come to think of it, isn't there another famous family-themed novel with an important character surnamed 薛?

@bokane.org OK, this is the wrong century but I'm currently reading 我们家 by 戴月行 (1984- CE, courtesy name 颜歌) and none of you fancy-pants translators can stop me from thinking of the main protagonist 薛胜强 as Victor Strongblood.

@samuelwa.de The China people at the NYT should stage their own coup and take over domestic coverage.

@roelio Nice! Very Edward Weston. :-)

@samuelwa.de So, reading Online Chinese is basically like reading Old Chinese?

First you have to figure out which word they mean (tenuously related to the actually written one) and then you don’t get the reference anyway?