Word: mandarinize
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...fanciful stroke of the Blue was noted by The New Yorker: a Chinese class for Blue announcers, who have done so well at beginning the day with Buenas dias! that they are now learning how to say "Good morning" in Mandarin (tsao shun...
...waved from the U.S. at intervals all night long. The translators worked fast, getting it out in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech. Beamed to the Orient by San Francisco's KGEI were summaries in Dutch, in Cantonese dialect, in Mandarin dialect, in Japanese...
...born in Tientsin, has spent 35 years in the foreign service, 31 of them in China. He speaks Chinese, in all its intricate, singsong dialects, like a native scholar, and has been known to spin entrancing Chinese narratives of his own invention by the hour, in fluent, flawless Mandarin...
...late German poet Klabund (Alfred Henschke) from a 13th-Century Chinese classic. (In 1925 it was a hit in Berlin with Actress Elisabeth Bergner, later in London with Hollywood Veteran Anna May Wong, and it appeared briefly in Manhattan.) It tells of a teahouse girl who marries a mandarin, only to fall afoul of his jealous No. 1 wife.This witch poisons the mandarin, bribes a judge to convict the girl of the murder and the theft of her own baby. At length she is rescued by a reforming young Emperor, who as a prince had met and loved...
...Chinese. An interpreter laboriously translated. Then Mr. Johnson got up, paused, bowed to hosts and guests. The audience set itself for a weary, long-winded speech which most of them would not understand. With a grin, Nelson Johnson proposed a toast and made a short speech in perfect Mandarin. From then on, he had no need of paper airplanes to make friends. Here was a white man who treated his yellow hosts as equals-as superiors, sometimes...