Yes, yours truly with the first issue of Beijing Weekend what I edited [note the cunning wordplay in the headline ...] I've got the easy part- I just correct the English that the Chinese journalists have written. Well, most of it is easy. Here's a typical [unpolished] example:
In order to help the kids learning at the Sihai Children Classics Education Centre, a non-governmental educational agency aiming to spread the knowledge of ancient classics among children, the staff members with the publishing house donated the newly-published reading matter for children.
For your homework tonight I want you to render that into English. And then imagine what it's like to do the same for 20 tabloid pages of the same. Have fun!
Images and words from Beijing by a Sydney-based British journalist. Most photos were taken with an old Leica III or a Contax IIa, using print film or slides.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
The editor - aka "the polisher"
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Hi Sue
The immediate family is in Sydney, to follow shortly to Beijing once I get settled in [like with a house and everything]. The rest of the Woodheads are still in good old Yorkshire, or maybe Scotland.
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