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Ha-li Bo-te yu mofa shi (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone).
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POTTER Copies Sell Illegally in China

By: News Editor
 Date: Monday, August 01, 2005
Source: Associated Press and People's Daily Online

Illegal copies of HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE have gone on sale in Beijing, weeks after it was published & released in English and months ahead of the actual Chinese language edition release. The Chinese people are so wound up about POTTER that they have even started posting illegal translations online.

J.K. Rowlings character is known as "Ha-li Bo-te" in China. The People's Literature Publishing House plans to launch the official Chinese version of the new book October 15th.

The Associate Press reported that "since the English-language release of the latest Harry Potter book, Chinese fans have begun sharing their own translations for free on Web sites, including those run by Beijing's elite Tsinghua and Peking universities."

To try to avoid pirates, The People's Literature Publishing House has even solicited a Chinese name for the book from readers. The book will not adopt the name HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. The title can be translated to Chinese literally, but "half blood" also means "half human, half beast."

The book will be translated by Ma Ainong and her sister Ma Aixin, who have translated the previous HARRY POTTER books to Chinese.

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• Aug 01, 2005, 08:52am •
F the Chinese!


And I mean right in the mouth, too!

• Aug 02, 2005, 02:16am •
You are one racist bastard! What would you do if you were a Harry Potter fan and wanted to read these books? What if it had been published in Chinese before English? Do you really think nobody in the UK, Canada, Australia or the USA would make an illegal copy? God. Rowling and co should have expected this. The book is popular everywhere. I mean, Lucasfilm understood that. They tried to release the new Star Wars films at the same time in as many languages as possible to avoid this. So have many other event films. It's amazing that the Chinese publisher wouldn't have forseen this and been ready for it.

• Aug 02, 2005, 11:13am •
I hear the Martians have bootleg copies too.

• Aug 02, 2005, 03:31pm •
babyburpface how often do you attend KKK rallies

• Aug 02, 2005, 08:18pm •
I am not sure about this, but I pretty much took babyburpface's comment as a joke. I could be wrong here, but I assumed the meaning was "Who really cares about this story"
But I could be wrong. That happened once.

• Aug 03, 2005, 03:31pm •
"I am not sure about this, but I pretty much took babyburpface's comment as a joke."

Love it when someone of the caucasian persuasion hides behind the guise of "humor" and "free speech" to insult someone due to their ethnicity.

Look at the Lucy Liu story posted a couple of days ago and all the "me so hawny" posts from obviously undersexed, knob-shining pasty losers living in their mommy's basement.

What's great is that I'm probably gonna get some "lighten up" replies. In reality that means "whiten up".


• Aug 03, 2005, 07:57pm •
I am a Honkey you can consider me white if you want. But I hate the term caucasian? What is that? It sounds ignorant? And if I was Asian Id have to be pissed about the word cause it sounds like a person (when you speak the word -how it sounds) of Asian decent is injected like with a can of DAP. It is a stupid word and to any white people who get offended when they are called honkey or cracker get a life and laugh it off cause if you dont you are truly niggers.

• Aug 03, 2005, 07:59pm •
By Lucy Liu is whiter than Cameron Diaz

• Aug 03, 2005, 09:35pm •
Hey, Sharp95th, how do you know that I am not a fat black lesbian? Would it give me any more rights or privileges than if I were a tall white heterosexual male?
Unless you are just making a joke when you refer to someone as an "obviously undersexed, knob-shining pasty losers living in their mommy's basement," then aren't you just as bad as the original poster?
Furthermore, how does baby's comment make fun of someone's ethnicity? Did he say "F the Chinese, they always confuse their Ls and Rs."


• Aug 03, 2005, 09:40pm •
Answer Key:
No, I am not a fat black lesbian.
No, doesn't matter either way.
Yes, you are a hypocrite.
No, the original comment does not have anything to do with any ethnicity.
No, he did not make any reference to the aformentioned stereotype, which, btw Lucy Liu doesn't seem to have a problem with.

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