Comments on: The Mystery of the Missing Manchu: Monolingual Signage at the Forbidden City http://granitestudio.org/2008/11/14/wheres-the-manchu-script/ A Qing historian reads the newspaper... Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: chriswaugh_bj http://granitestudio.org/2008/11/14/wheres-the-manchu-script/comment-page-1/#comment-7778 chriswaugh_bj Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:06:14 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=590#comment-7778 "Generally speaking, Manchu was on the left with Chinese on the right in accordance with the custom of the left being superior to the right." And yet in the example photo it's the other way round... “Generally speaking, Manchu was on the left with Chinese on the right in accordance with the custom of the left being superior to the right.”

And yet in the example photo it’s the other way round…

]]> By: Shu Jierui http://granitestudio.org/2008/11/14/wheres-the-manchu-script/comment-page-1/#comment-7743 Shu Jierui Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:31:19 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=590#comment-7743 What a character that Mr. Yuan. This "zhao" is like something you'd find in a cheesy Chinese tv series. Great translation by the way. -J What a character that Mr. Yuan. This “zhao” is like something you’d find in a cheesy Chinese tv series.
Great translation by the way.
-J

]]> By: Tom http://granitestudio.org/2008/11/14/wheres-the-manchu-script/comment-page-1/#comment-7730 Tom Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:19:24 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=590#comment-7730 Yuan Shikai sure is getting a lot of the blame on this blog recently. First he turned on the Guanxu emperor, now he's gotten rid of Manchu at the imperial palace. Let's hear something about his army days next? Yuan Shikai sure is getting a lot of the blame on this blog recently. First he turned on the Guanxu emperor, now he’s gotten rid of Manchu at the imperial palace.

Let’s hear something about his army days next?

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