The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How are some people in the Mandarin field’s territory like “sheep without a shepherd”?
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The service that hosts this blog uses the term “labels”, but “tags” seems to be more commonly used. For more information on labels tags, check out this old blog post and this Wikipedia entry.
I recently came across this interesting article on overseas Chinese:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese
A question arose regarding the population numbers used in the article, so someone clarified it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Overseas_Chinese#The_numbers_are_from.3F
Keeping in mind that these numbers are from a couple of years ago, that they're approximate, and that the actual figures are always changing, it is still interesting to note that if we for argument's sake say that there are now about 65 million Chinese outside of mainland China, and that there are about 1.3 billion Chinese inside mainland China (see this page, top left corner), that means that only about 5% of all the Chinese in the world are outside mainland China.
Someone just sent me this link to a great Wikipedia article on Chinese measure words:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_measure_word
It contains tables of measure words with columns for Traditional characters, Simplified characters, pinyin, Cantonese Yale romanization, and main uses.
What is Wikipedia? There is an explanation in their introduction. Of course, such an openly collaborative environment can be abused by some, especially in this world, but it can often heal itself, at least to a degree, and many have found Wikipedia to be at least one useful source of information on many things.
