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...Shanghai Art Deco is the eighth collaboration by Erh and Johnston. Though their previous works, all celebrating and recording Western architectural influences on Chinese cities, were published only in English, this book is bilingual. "The others were really aimed at a foreign market, but it's important for me to spread my ideas about conservation to the Chinese population," says Erh. It's not yet a lost cause, adds Johnston, noting that an increasing number of Shanghainese are finally recognizing the value of the more mature buildings in their midst-not least because foreign professionals are willing...
...have any language problems working with him? It was beyond that. The theme of this film is that people should be able to communicate without words. In order not to diminish my concentration, Alejandro would ask me to communicate in sign language and had it interpreted into English...
...book he is reading for school, The Gods Are Not to Blame by Nigerian playwright Ola Rotimi, which transplants Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to Africa. He talks about his school and having to go to mass every day. He pronounces Catholic Cad-lick in his wonderful, treacle-thick Ghanaian English. There is a small table in the corner with a stove sitting on it. Pots and pans stack up under chairs that line the walls and on the shelves of a bureau that also holds a tiny color television. There is a small refrigerator, the padding in its door showing through...
...what really brings the suffering home in this story and tugs at the heartstrings is not the gruesome descriptions of a brutal nightmare, but the shocking simplicity of Deng’s and his friends’ dreams, gorgeous fantasies of having children who will “speak English as Americans do,” the choice of different colors for shirts and shorts, bowls of oranges, or a bed of their own. Inevitably, the decision to cast Deng’s story as a work of fiction comes into question, and one wonders if it somehow implies that...
...opening lines to “Babel 2,” either. It’s a trio of exclamations from the languages of some of the best movies at the 79th annual Academy Awards, a motley group of international films that have largely blown the English-language competition out of the water. Why the Spanish? “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Guillermo del Toro’s Best Foreign Film shoo-in recently eclipsed Alfonso Cuarón’s “Y Tu Mamá Tambi?...