{"id":146,"date":"2009-09-30T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=146"},"modified":"2009-09-30T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T02:38:10","slug":"geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was talking with a friend and the topic of <strong>\u5730\u7406<\/strong> (geography) came up.\u00a0 He was very quick to <strong>\u5766\u7387\u5730\u627f\u8ba4<\/strong> (frankly admit) that he didn&#8217;t know where <strong>\u65b0\u897f\u5170<\/strong> (New Zealand) was until recently, and that he had always thought it was in <strong>\u6b27\u6d32<\/strong> (Europe).\u00a0 Better late than never, I suppose.\u00a0 Later, he mentioned New Zealand again and said something about a New Zealand cartoon girl wearing a New Zealand hat milking a cow next to a <strong>\u98ce\u8f66<\/strong> (windmill).\u00a0 Was he thinking of Holland? At least he knows where New Zealand is on the map.\u00a0 On the topic of maps, before coming to China I had never seen a world map with China in the <strong>\u4e2d\u95f4<\/strong> (center).\u00a0 Even world maps in the US don&#8217;t have the US in the center.\u00a0 Thinking about this from another\u00a0 <strong>\u89d2\u5ea6<\/strong> (angle), China&#8217;s name does technically translate as &#8220;middle kingdom.&#8221;\u00a0 Curious about if other acquaintances knew where New Zealand was, one said that he knew the <strong>\u5927\u6982\u7684\u4f4d\u7f6e<\/strong> (general location) but could not specifically point it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u5730\u7406 di4li3 &#8211; geography<br \/>\n\u5766\u7387\u5730\u627f\u8ba4 &#8211; tan3shuai4<br \/>\n\u65b0\u897f\u5170 xin1xi1lan2 &#8211; New Zealand<br \/>\n\u6b27\u6d32 ou1zhou1 &#8211; Europe<br \/>\n\u98ce\u8f66 feng1che1 &#8211; windmill<br \/>\n\u4e2d\u95f4 zhong1jian1 &#8211; middle, center<br \/>\n\u89d2\u5ea6 jiao3du4 &#8211; angle<br \/>\n\u5927\u6982 da4gai4 &#8211; general\/basic<br \/>\n\u4f4d\u7f6e wei4zhi2 &#8211; location<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was talking with a friend and the topic of \u5730\u7406 (geography) came up.\u00a0 He was very quick to \u5766\u7387\u5730\u627f\u8ba4 (frankly admit) that he didn&#8217;t know where \u65b0\u897f\u5170 (New Zealand) was until recently, and that he had always thought it was in \u6b27\u6d32 (Europe).\u00a0 Better late than never, I suppose.\u00a0 Later, he&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/geography\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","tag-chinese-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}