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The last time I bought one of Mike’s books was “So-and-so Visited Here” nearly eight years ago. In fact, he published ” Flower Debt ” in 2020, but I only got it yesterday. Even if you want to buy the box and return the pearls, first collect the Chinese translations of the names of various Western people and works in the book. To be honest, compared with mainland dictionaries and all the tasteless and uneducated claims about the translation of “imperial” names, these are pearls of brilliance.
Of course it must be read in Cantonese.
Mary Hopkin
Joni Mitchell
David Hockney
Bob Dylan
Robert Altman
Edith Piaf
Pina Bausch
Tom Waits
Katharine Hepburn
Georgia O’Keeffe
Michelangelo Caravaggio
Allen Ginsberg
Wim Wenders
Mia Farrow
Simon & Garfunkel
Grace Kelly
“Life in Pink” (La vie en rose)
“Put the Blame on Mame”
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