{"id":185,"date":"2008-07-31T14:54:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T21:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2008-07-31T14:54:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T21:54:53","slug":"the-internet-chinese-text-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/31\/the-internet-chinese-text-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Chinese Text Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a Chinese resource that looks pretty cool: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/chinese-text\/\">The Internet Chinese Text Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest problem with the site is it <em>doesn&#8217;t set the proper encoding information!!<\/em> So you have to manually set the encoding to &#8220;Chinese Simplified&#8221; <em>very time<\/em>. It&#8217;s really, really annoying. I&#8217;ve tried everything on the browser such as setting my preferred language to Chinese with no luck. Ugh&#8230; One trick I came up with is to mouse over each link and just read the url on the bottom bar of the browser. It&#8217;ll tell you what you&#8217;re looking at (in English no less) without having to reset the encoding every time. Then you can finally set the encoding when you get to the text you want.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, while this site looks cool, the material is far too advanced for me to make any recommendations. I thought I&#8217;d try to tackle some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/chinese-text\/novel\/mini-novels\/\">short stories<\/a> first but it&#8217;s slow going.<\/p>\n<p>Ooh la la, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/chinese-text\/erotica\/\">\u8272\u60c5\u6027\u7231<\/a> category looks interesting. Could be a good motivator to study Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Any good suggestions for people like me learning Chinese? Preferably something interesting, not too difficult, and as modern as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u5927\u5bb6\u6709\u4ec0\u4e48\u597d\u5efa\u8bae\u5417\uff1f<\/p>\n<p>KTNXBYE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a Chinese resource that looks pretty cool: The Internet Chinese Text Archive. The biggest problem with the site is it doesn&#8217;t set the proper encoding information!! So you have to manually set the encoding to &#8220;Chinese Simplified&#8221; very time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/31\/the-internet-chinese-text-archive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advanced","category-chinese","category-learning-resources","category-puchi-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}