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On a popular wristwatch a painted image of Mao Zedong waved his hand jerkily with every second. 'He is not greeting you,' the vendor grinned. 'He is saying goodbye.'
From Colin Thubron's excellent Shadow of the Silk Road.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on September 3, 2007 at 07:22 AM in Books, Travels | Permalink
Comments
I just finished Thubron's book, and agree that it is excellent.
Posted by: Tyrone Slothrop at Sep 3, 2007 9:53:24 AM
I just started it last week, am about 120 pages in. I thought it started slow but kept going and it is great.
John
Posted by: John Henry at Sep 3, 2007 10:19:09 AM
This is the watch (http://www.kaylorimports.com/shopping/product_details.php?id=459)
I am tempted to get one but the band is so ugly... and it is a wind-up watch so if I forget winding it up, Chairman Mao won't bid me goodbye.
Posted by: Yan Li at Sep 3, 2007 1:26:11 PM
Hey, I have that watch! A friend bought it for me in China. It is very campy!
Posted by: Brian Moore at Sep 4, 2007 10:07:03 AM
That watch is for sale *everywhere* you might visit as a westerner. Everywhere. After a while I began to think that Mao hadn't died, he had just disaggregated and will forever keep (new, improved, capitalist) time in China.
Posted by: Jared at Sep 4, 2007 12:20:28 PM
Bye, Alex.
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/09/the-sadler-comm.html
Posted by: effell at Sep 4, 2007 2:48:03 PM
effell, that was pretty damn funny. At least I am understood. :)
Alex
Posted by: Alex Tabarrok at Sep 4, 2007 10:07:52 PM
I am looking for 翻譯社,who can help me to translation these words?
eg:女優、傢俱、搬家、室內設計?
Thanks a lot.
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