As most people know China is the heart of fake, imitation, and bootleg products. The victims of these bootleg attempts used to be global brands, however, even Chinese brands have recently become victims as well. Here is a little activity, can you see the difference between real and imitation? If it were you, would you be tricked?
傍名牌 (Imitation Brand Name)
Real Brand Name
Picture
碧雪
Right characters, wrong order. Should be 雪碧. (Sprite)
娃啥啥 (or 娃娃哈)
Can you read it? :) It is “WaSaSa”. Should be “WaHaHa” (娃哈哈).
[Doesn't that design look at lot like America's Arrowhead water?]
高露浩(hao4)
高露洁 (jie2)
1BM
It is not exactly IBM. It is YiBiEm :) It is not I, it is “one”.
瓢柔 (piao2rou2)
飘柔 (piao1rou2)
夏仕莲
夏士莲 (sounds the same)
治治 (zhi4zhi4)
洽洽(qia4qia4). Alike.
CASIQ
CASIO
可日可乐
可口可乐
This interesting little comparison chart and information was developed by my Russian classmate, Raisa . All credit goes to her and our Business Chinese Elective (evening course) at Tsinghua University.
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Celebration for Dragon Boat Festival
Do you want to know more about Chinese traditional culture? Do you want to watch the excellent folk-custom performance? Do you want to participate in the interesting Chinese popular games? Don’t hesitate to join us——A Grand Celebration for the Year
U.S. FDA issued a warning on June 2nd for consumers to avoid using tubes of toothpaste labeled as made in China. I am not certain if toothpaste bought in Beijing (that's made in China) might have these issues as well, but at the very least stay away from the toothpaste that has been identified by the FDA as poisoned. Also, this anti-freeze has been a big problem in Panama as well killing hundreds of people in the form of poisoned cough syrup.
Read on for the FDA list, there may be other ones as well, they are still investigating.
In my discussions with fellow foreigners, I have more often than not, heard that the reason they've come all this way to study Chinese is because they also feel a change in the world, already in motion. That the spotlight of the world is slowly being pulled away from the West to focus also on the East, if not moreso on the East someday. What do we mean by this? We're not exactly sure how to explain what we feel, but perhaps this slide can convey our feelings better to you:
Earlier today at 5:35am or so a major earthquake has hit Yunnan Province killing 3 and injuring many others.
Our Editor Charmaine X is currently in Yunnan. Let us all hope that she is safe and well. I have not been able to reach her via cell phone. Hopefully we'll hear from her soon. The earthquake hit the south and she's in the north, so hopefully things are fine there.
This just in! Tsinghua University is holding a Dragon Boat Festival on June 10th. Read on for more information.