Flickr Picks – China – Computer Books
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Flickr Picks: My favourite China related finds from Flickr, the photo sharing website. Click on the image to visit the photo's home page on Flickr.
cogdogblog posted a photo:
Yep, those are computer books covering topics that are close to my heart: PHP and AJAX. You’ll find many more books like this in any bookstore in China. If you can find a book on any computer topic in the West, you’ll find a Chinese version of it in China.
Maybe surprisingly, many of these seem to be the genuine article. Of course a good number will be knock-offs (I’ve seen some fakes that my students had bought), but most of the ones in the bookstores appear to be genuine. I’ve also read stories about official translations.
I used to wander into bookstores and look at all these books I wanted to read, pick them up, look at the Chinese for a while, then put them down again and walk away in frustration. It wasn’t so easy to get English copies (although you’ll get them in places like Beijing).
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