New Mandarin words: "pā" (part) and "lūsě" ("loser")
There is a lively March 25, 2015 lecture about the First Emperor of the Qin (260-210 BC), the ruler who unified China by force and bequeathed the name of his dynasty to China for all time.
The lecture, with the title "Qín shǐhuáng zài yǐnmán shénme? 秦始皇在隐瞒什么?" ("What was the First Emperor of the Qin hiding?"), is on YouTube. The name of the speaker is Luó Zhènyǔ 羅振宇. He's got the gift of gab, and is one of the best Chinese speakers I've ever heard. Luo was a journalism major, a field in which he earned both an M.A. and a Ph.D.
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