Re: More Chinese Korean War web sites

[Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>]

Cookie,

Numbers are interesting.  Unfortunately, I don't read Chinese 
either.  Hopefully someone on this list does, or knows someone who does, 
and will kind enough to get a good translation.

Ed



At 06:50 PM 2/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Ed,
>
>I used the Babelfish translator and looked at the two pages listed by Ming 
>Fan last night.
>
>While the results, as noted, come out in "Chinglish" with quite odd 
>grammar and syntax, they do present some numbers of interest.
>
>I may have misinterpreted the odd translation, but it appears to say this:
>
>Chinese Losses
>
>360,000 dead of which
>        173,000 killed in action
>        187,000 died of wounds
>1,150,000 wounded
>2,210,000 injured
>2,500,000 medical casualties
>290,000 POW
>
>...which comes up to over 6.5 million.
>
>The other numbers don't make much sense, other than the Communist 
>predeliction to report enemy losses as "annihilated" and friendly losses 
>as "sacrificed" or "martyred".
>
>Anyone read Chinese directly who can sort this out?
>
>Cookie Sewell
>AMPS

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