Letter to my subscribers
Posted on January 10th, 2013
Dear Subscriber, Happy New Year! I have been remiss in sending you weekly Chinese lessons because I was developing an iPad game during the major part of 2012. Its title is PinYinPal. My husband Bob, nephew Larry and I created PinYinPal to teach Chinese for free over the internet. Hopefully, you will find PinYinPal to […]
Something about the wily eunuch Zhao (Cont’d 3)
Posted on July 11th, 2012
Most of them were frightened of the eunuch and said it was a horse. (They were right to be scared – Zhao later punished all those who had dared to call it a deer) The phrase pointing to a deer and calling it a horse has become a well-known proverb in the Chinese language. It describes a situation where right and wrong are deliberately mixed up[…]
82- Something about the wily eunuch Zhao (Cont’d 1)
Posted on July 4th, 2012
One day, Eunuch Zhao presented a deer to the Second Emperor at court, all the time pointing to the animal and calling it a horse. The Emperor laughed in disbelief and asked the ministers
around him for their opinion[…]
