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Newspapers
A new home for old newspapersPosted by Joel Martinsen, July 30, 2008 11:04 AM
This woven basket, purchased a few months ago for US$9.99 at The Container Store, a US housewares chain, is constructed out of old, rolled-up mainland Chinese newspapers. In a few cases, the snippets of text visible on the rolled-up strips make it possible to identify general location or date of the newspapers. Pictured above are a couple of phone numbers in Shandong Province; on the opposite side of the basket is a fragment of an article about the Lifan 520 automobile that first ran in Guangdong's Information Times in 2006.
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Comments on A new home for old newspapersThis takes me back to my first exposure to Chinese characters, examining fragments of blown-up firecrackers as a boy in Southern Spain. Back then I had no idea that one day I might be able to read them. |
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