Yes, this is the cover of the Chinese edition of Broke is Beautiful which has recently been released. I just finished doing an interview for a Chinese magazine. I believe it will be posted on line and I can include a link when it is up, but I won't know what I said!
I might do a Babel Fish translation back into English and put the results here. They will no doubt be funnier than most of the book!
I wish that I were able to read Chinese because I am extremely curious as to how the book reads as it is translated and edited for that audience. The book seems so specific to American/European culture.
As a preview, here was the first question on the interview I did:
Have you ever hear about vipassana？Vipassana is a method for purifying the mind by no reading and writing. It’s an Indian meditation. In this kind of silence，some people collapse and other people see themselves clearly. The ten days of vipassana and the period when you broke are very similar. Do you feel painful but joyful?
Hello Laura,
ReplyDeleteI am the journalist from this magazine(门里杂志).The press helped me to translate those questions, sorry I didn't realise some of the questions seem a bit strange in English, however I still impressed by your beautiful answers, It inspired me a lot.
If it won't be too much trouble, I still have few question to ask you. Is that possible that you could send the answers back to my email? Because I have to use proxy to get to blogspot(yes it was blocked in china for some reason;)). It will be great help for my article.
My Email: cozurlovely.t@gmail.com
Here are my questions:
1.
Can you tell me more about about the broke?After that, what did you do, what makes you feel "broke is beautiful"?
2.
Where are you from in America?
3
What's your dream when you are young? and What's your dream now?
Thank you very much!
Have a nice day and hope my article can make more people know you and your lovely book:)
Erni
Tel:+8613880655995
Ps. Is that possible you could send it to me before 16th April？This article will be on our magazine of may.
Yes, I will e-mail you. My comments were not about the language of your question. I meant that my own answers after being translated into Chinese and then back into English by computer will probably sound very funny.
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