Chinese holiday names are not dead yet, although I would ha… - Thorsten Pattberg

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Chinese holiday names are not dead yet, although I would hardly call them alive either: they are truly undead vocabularies.

Thorsten Pattberg

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Thorsten J. Pattberg (June 20, 1977 – ) is a German writer, philosopher, and cultural critic from Peking University. He is a disciple of Ji Xianlin and Tu Weiming.

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Chinese holiday names are not dead yet, although I would hardly call them alive either: they are truly undead vocabularies. - Thorsten Pattberg

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