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6.   Jun 21, 2000 10:57 PM
Here's an interesting Canfact. Did you know that one of the most famous television comics in the PRC is a Canadian fellow? Whenever a sitcom has a call for a "standard white guy" (or "demon," as the C ...

-- posted by rkhen


5.   Jun 20, 2000 9:23 PM
Biogardener: There is a people in China called the Hui, who are Mandarin-speaking ethnic Han but also Muslims.

It's good your missionary wasn't delivering the sermon in front of them! ...


-- posted by pseudoerasmus


4.   Jun 20, 2000 3:34 PM
I knew a missionary who spent all his life in China. He later married the sister of my pastor, so we got to know him really well. His name was Claire Scratch.

When he first went to China, he didn't ...


-- posted by biogardener


3.   Jun 20, 2000 2:00 PM
The last sentence of the first message should read:

One example is the trio of kanji characters which mean "automobile", pronounced jidosha in Japanese but I don't know what in Chines ...


-- posted by pseudoerasmus


2.   Jun 20, 2000 1:36 AM
I forgot to add that, apart from the use of the simplified character in the Chinese road signs, all the other 7 characters are identical to the ones used in Japanese, and the meaning of the road sign ...

-- posted by pseudoerasmus





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