Poetic Vienna

Open Access Now 2016-03-24

Summary:

Photograph accompanying Catherine Wong's article titled "Farewell Palm Springs: China to crack down on foreign names for buildings, residential areas to ‘protect culture’" (SCMP, 3/23/16): The Chinese sign outside this development reads: huāxiāng wéiyěnà 花香維也納 ("floral fragrance Vienna") Such grandiloquence is typical of real estate developments in China.  Often, as in this case, they hit […]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24793

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Victor Mair

Date tagged:

03/24/2016, 20:30

Date published:

03/24/2016, 19:08