{"id":456,"date":"2006-06-30T18:40:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T10:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/lysistrata-in-taiwanese\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T15:18:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T07:18:23","slug":"lysistrata-in-taiwanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/lysistrata-in-taiwanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Lysistrata in Taiwanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tainanjen.org.tw\/2006_Lysistrata.htm\">Too cool<\/a>. Oh, I hope this comes to Taipei.   <\/p>\n<p>From the troupe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tainanjen.org.tw\/english.htm\">English-language introduction<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In order to make theatre more accessible to the Tainanese, the troupe has utilised various dramatic forms to explore different local issues that may concern our audiences in their daily life. We even ask our actors to speak good Min-nan-yu, or Taiwanese (as opposed to Mandarin, the official language of Taiwan), in many of our productions, so that the local audiences can easily identify themselves with the characters and feel less intimidated by the language barrier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good. This is a basic point but one all too seldom ignored or dismissed: Until relatively recently Mandarin was a foreign language in Taiwan. The native language for most in Taiwan has been Taiwanese\/Hokkien\/Hoklo.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I note that the ticket outlet translates <span class=\"py\">T\u00e1in\u00e1nr\u00e9n j\u00f9tu\u00e1n<\/span> (&#21488;&#21335;&#20154;&#21127;&#22296;) as the &#8220;Tainaner Ensemble&#8221;. <em>Tainaner<\/em>? Is that really what gets used in English for people from Tainan?<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/lomaji.com\/siau-sit\/2006\/06\/1058.php\">Lomaji<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too cool. Oh, I hope this comes to Taipei. From the troupe&#8217;s English-language introduction: In order to make theatre more accessible to the Tainanese, the troupe has utilised various dramatic forms to explore different local issues that may concern our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/lysistrata-in-taiwanese\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,47,33,72,3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-general","category-greek","category-hokkien","category-tainan","category-taiwan","category-taiwanese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7803,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/7803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}