Elections 2016: China

[Angelina]

There are no presidential elections in China. However, we do have bookstores. The Bookstore of the Year 2016 candidates are:

• 诚品书店
• 钟书阁

More info here. (Disclaimer: obviously the link is not from an actual election, more like a fun alternative battle of the bookstores that looks interesting. Want to avoid the whole “what would electing X for president mean for US-China relations”) Feel free to support the campaign by adding photos or additional info. 

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA4MTE2OTUxOQ==&mid=2649707648&idx=1&sn=7e97dd6a3516ed57b56d467821946145&chksm=8782e980b0f56096922b4f8195161fc33e80524fa4bf30970b84c481c4a946ce8a869007db95&mpshare=1&scene=1&srcid=11088VaU5PSEr5JlrClcLq8c#rd

 

 

[Angelina]

Here is something worth reading, inspired by the new US president. 

 

http://aab-edu.net/uploads/docs/thesis/2009/01-2009-anglisht/10.%20The%20poet%20and%20the%20politics-%20%20Ales%20Debeljak.pdf

 

http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-garden.html

 

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297276/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-neil-postman/9780143036531

[889]

Interesting to click back and forth between the 繁体 and 简体 versions:

 

http://cn.nytimes.com/world/20161110/trump-putin-xi-america/zh-hant/ (not accessible from Mainland China)

 

Myself, I prefer 川普 because the three-character alternative sounds awkward as a  translation of a one-syllable name, and it's more fun to say than 特朗普.

 

Does anyone know, before Trump became a public figure, how he and his organization translated the name into Chinese?

[Angelina]

Can't see the article.

 

How about Borges or Kiš? I think Trump is one of those invented names self-invented US citizens chose for themselves.