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January 09, 2009

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Robert Gagnon

I think you should read:

ESWN's Section 2 of 3: Brief comments

[Permalink] An Even Better Example of Zheteng (01/10/2008) In Comment 200901a#018, I proposed that the apparently untranslatable Chinese term zheteng (折腾) contains three factors: (1) it serves no real purpose; (2) it achieves no real effects; (3) it causes physical and mental anguish among those involved. There is now a good example with the shutdown of the Chinese blog Bullog.cn (see Danwei).

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