How To Squash Those Pesky Dissidents: My Stroll Down 'Tiananmen Square' Lane with Jiang Zemin
Posted on 01/11/2005 10:12:12 PM PST by kattracks
Bill Clinton has reached an agreement with a Chinese publisher over the translation of "My Life," after struggling to come up with an official version of his memoirs to counteract fabrications in pirated copies.The Chinese publisher, Yilin Press, had been concerned that some passages translated verbatim "would have a meaning in Chinese somewhat different than what I meant," Clinton said Tuesday. "We reached an agreement on language which, if accurately translated into Chinese, would make it clear that I have both differences in policy (from the Chinese) and a long-term commitment to reconciliation," Clinton said.
Bob Barnett, a lawyer who handled the Chinese book deal for Clinton, said it was important to publish an official version of the best seller in China, because a vast piracy market had produced versions that inserted inaccuracies and changed facts.
One version was lifted verbatim from "Living History," the memoirs of Clinton's wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Others had a young Clinton praising China's Communist revolutionary Mao Zedong or Clinton talking about the feng-shui in his home state of Arkansas, neither of which are in the original.
Clinton spoke Tuesday at his presidential library at a news conference with former President Bush. The two were appointed by the current President Bush to increase private donations for victims of the southeast Asian earthquake and tsunami.
No need for that, the clintons took care of that when they "wrote' the books.
Yeah, the Chinese only have one translation for the word "IS".
I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Statue............... Miss Terra-Cotta Xi'an
(But I'd sure like to date you!)
Thanks for the thread, Kat! Good night.
I just received the unabridged version,...it was written on both sides of the fortune cookie's 'fortune'!
You're welcome, and thanks for your additions.
Chapter 18:
"Me Bill Clinton
Me play joke
Me make pee-pee
In your Coke!"
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