{"id":158,"date":"2009-11-08T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=158"},"modified":"2009-11-08T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T04:56:10","slug":"bookstore-in-sz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/bookstore-in-sz\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookstore in SZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I made my way to a bookstore in Shenzhen stocking foreign titles.\u00a0 Near the overpass of the road with the store, I saw a banner saying <strong>\u63a8\u5d07\u9605\u8bfb<\/strong> (respect\/praise reading), meanwhile there were performers playing the <strong>\u4e8c\u80e1<\/strong> (erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument) and taking donations from passers-by.\u00a0 As I exited the building, I saw plenty of <strong>\u661f\u661f<\/strong> (stars) dotting the sky while enjoying the <strong>\u51c9\u5feb<\/strong> (cool) weather.\u00a0 With my <strong>\u5b9d\u8d35<\/strong> (precious) books in hand, I was rather pleased.\u00a0 Some of the books at the library were definitely <strong>OUT<\/strong> (out) though, I saw a book describing how to use COBOL and DOS.\u00a0 With the extra time I had last night, I took a trip to another one of the <strong>\u53e3\u5cb8<\/strong> (ports) and was impressed with the linkage of the Shenzhen MTR and Hong Kong MTR.\u00a0 After that, I grabbed dinner at an HK-style cafe where one couple had their <strong>\u516b\u54e5\u72d7\/\u54c8\u5df4\u72d7<\/strong> (pug dog) lying on the floor underneath them.<\/p>\n<p>\u63a8\u5d07 tui1chong2 &#8211; praise, respect<br \/>\n\u9605\u8bfb yue4du2 &#8211; reading<br \/>\n\u4e8c\u80e1 er2hu2 &#8211; a two-stringed traditional chinese instrument played with a bow<br \/>\n\u661f\u661f xing1xing1 &#8211; stars<br \/>\n\u51c9\u5feb liang2kuai4 &#8211; cool, fresh<br \/>\n\u5b9d\u8d35 bao3gui4 &#8211; precious<br \/>\nOUT out &#8211; internet slang meaning &#8220;out of style&#8221;<br \/>\n\u53e3\u5cb8 kou3an4 &#8211; port<br \/>\n\u516b\u54e5\u72d7 ba1ge1gou3 &#8211; pug<br \/>\n\u54c8\u5df4\u72d7 ha1bagou3 &#8211; pug (alternative name)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I made my way to a bookstore in Shenzhen stocking foreign titles.\u00a0 Near the overpass of the road with the store, I saw a banner saying \u63a8\u5d07\u9605\u8bfb (respect\/praise reading), meanwhile there were performers playing the \u4e8c\u80e1 (erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument) and taking donations from passers-by.\u00a0 As I exited the building, I saw plenty&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/bookstore-in-sz\/\">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":[13],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-chinese-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}