{"id":790,"date":"2007-09-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/new-story-in-pinyin-dashui-guohuo-after-the-flood\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T16:07:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:07:18","slug":"new-story-in-pinyin-dashui-guohuo-after-the-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/new-story-in-pinyin-dashui-guohuo-after-the-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"New story in Pinyin: &#8216;Dashui Guohuo&#8217; (&#8216;After the Flood&#8217;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that Pinyin Info has a new story in Hanyu Pinyin: &#8220;<span class=\"py\">D\u00e0shu&#464; Gu\u00f2h\u00f2u<\/span>,&#8221; by Zhang Liqing. It&#8217;s available here in two versions: <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/pinyin\/dashui_guohuo.html\">Pinyin alone<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/pinyin\/dashui_guohuo_english.html\">Pinyin with English translation<\/a> (as &#8220;After the Flood&#8221;), so one doesn&#8217;t even have to know Mandarin or Pinyin to read this. <\/p>\n<p>The story recalls a girlhood friend in China, not long after the end of the Second World War. <\/p>\n<p>Zhang is an associate editor of the <em>ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary<\/em> and has translated a number of important works into English, including Zhou Youguang&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/zyg.html\">The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts<\/a> and L&uuml; Shuxiang&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/lyu_shuxiang\/\">Comparing Chinese Characters and a Chinese Spelling Script \u2014 an evening conversation on the reform of Chinese characters<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that Pinyin Info has a new story in Hanyu Pinyin: &#8220;D\u00e0shu&#464; Gu\u00f2h\u00f2u,&#8221; by Zhang Liqing. It&#8217;s available here in two versions: Pinyin alone and Pinyin with English translation (as &#8220;After the Flood&#8221;), so one doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/new-story-in-pinyin-dashui-guohuo-after-the-flood\/\">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":[4,12,41,106,32,20,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","category-english","category-hanyu","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-tone-marks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8007,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}