HARRY POTTER IN CHINESE, JAPANESE, AND VIETNAMESE
LOG OF UPDATES 2004 (plus end 2003)

27 December 2004 (Macau)

• Added 'Once or twice a minute all summer' to Wordplay.

19 December 2004 (Beijing)

• Added 'Harry's spectacles' background to popup glossaries for the description of the basilisk.

14 December 2004 (Beijing)

• Added page on the spell Orchideus.
• Fixed up position of Unicode savvy signs.

13 December 2004 (Beijing)

• Added pages on Is Nagini a milk-drinking snake? and How many prophecies has Sybill Trelawney made? to the Mistranslations section.

12 December 2004 (Beijing)

• Fixed faulty metatags in the heads of pages in the Mistranslation section.

11 December 2004 (Beijing)

• Having discovered that the 'venerable old codger' speech used by Dumbledore has much in common with Hiroshima dialect, I've rewritten that page, at the same time updating fonts, romanisation, etc.
• Added Milonic header to the list of chapter titles for Book 1 (previously omitted by oversight).

10 December 2004 (Beijing)

• Added page on the translation of 'Let your hair down', as spoken by Professor McGonagall.

7 December 2004 (Beijing)

• Added page on the spell Mobiliarbus.

5 December 2004 (Beijing)

• Added page on Avada Kedavra.
• Added note on You Know Who at Names of Wizards in Chinese.

2 December 2004 (Beijing)

• Added Japanese notes for Chapters 14 and 15 in Book 5.
• Changed order of Javascript menu items.

1 December 2004 (Beijing)

• Fixed error in The Hand of Glory and added extra information. Also added a heading for pages in this section ('Names of Gadgets') and fixed a navigation glitch.

30 November 2004 (Beijing)

• Lowered the first start of every page so that the top navigation bar is not obscured by the Milonic Java menu. Also fixed up a few problems with the Java menu.

26 November 2004 (Beijing)

• Fixed a few errors in the navigation system.

25 November 2004 (Beijing)

• Added the Milonic navigation system to Harry Potter.

20 November 2004 (Beijing)

• Added a second Vietnamese title to Defensive Magical Theory.
• Slightly rewrote Basic Hexes for the Busy and Vexed (mistranslated as 'Spells for dealing with restless and fidgety animals').

18 November 2004 (Beijing)

• Fixed up a few style features and added a background picture showing Harry's glasses.

17 November 2004 (Beijing)

• Table added showing the translation of spells in Harry Potter. At this stage, no transliteration, English translation, or explanation is shown.

15 November 2004 (Beijing)

• Slightly rewrote a number of pages, especially in Mistranslations and Word Play. Fixed up a faulty link.

11 November 2004 (Beijing)

• Added a page on the Hand of Glory. Added 'Quick-Quotes Quill' to Gadgets.
• Slight rewriting of the Translation of Relative Clauses in the Description of the Basilisk.

10 November 2004 (Beijing)

• Added a page on the Foe-Glass. Slightly reshuffled the files.

9 November 2004 (Beijing)

• Added a page on Gubraithian Fire.

8 November 2004 (Beijing)

• Put up a Unicode page giving the names of some gadgets and objects in the CJV translations of Harry Potter. This is only a preliminary page, without pronunciation or notes. Eventually each gadget will have its own page.

2 November 2004 (Beijing)

• A few changes to publication details and index page.

25 October 2004 (Beijing)

• Cleaned up a few links on Where to Order Harry Potter in CJV.

23 October 2004 (Beijing)

• Fixed up small error in 'A Peck of Owls'.

19 October 2004 (Beijing)

• Added note on Word Play: '... a peck, I mean, a pack of owls'.

17 October 2004 (Beijing)

• Added notes on book titles found in Book 5 (Japanese), which in some cases involved extensive rewriting. The graphics for individual Japanese words are to be added later -- for the moment, only romanisation is given. Links to the main page of book titles were also fixed (previously they pointed to the old file, which is outside the folder. The change is related to the upcoming implementation of the Milonic menu system to the Harry Potter section of the site).

15 October 2004 (Beijing)

• Added Japanese version of the Sorting Hat's New Song, Weasley is Our King, and Professor Trelawney's first prophecy. Made a few changes to word division in names of characters in Harry Potter.

14 October 2004 (Beijing)

• Added book titles appearing in Book 5 (Japanese) to the page showing All Book Titles. The book titles and information about them have not yet been added to individual pages.
• Made changes to the text at The Hearing (Harry Potter Book 5 Chapter 8).
• Fixed links on page of all chapter titles in Book 5.

11 October 2004 (Beijing)

• Added Japanese chapter titles for Book 5 of Harry Potter, although in unfinished form. The main problem is that I have not yet made graphics for individual words. Rather than wait, I've put the chapter titles up without these graphics, which will appear later.

10 October 2004 (Beijing)

• Fixed the titles of A History of Magic and The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts (Chinese GB frames), which were incorrect. Today finally got hold of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in Japanese. Chapter titles are coming soon.

25 September 2004 (Beijing)

• Cleaned up headers.

12 September 2004 (Beijing)

• Rewrote part of the Treatment of 'For' in Translating the Introduction to the Basilisk (Harry Potter), adding an explanatory example.

11 September 2004 (Beijing)

• Finally updated the Harry Potter Site Map - Chinese Traditional. Includes links to Harry Potter and the Ciwawa, Treatment of Relative Clauses in the Description of the Basilisk, Treatment of the Conjunction 'For' in the Description of the Basilisk, How Does Dumbledore Speak in Japanese?, Professor Trelawney's 1st Prediction, and 'Weasley is our King'. Fixed up bad link to Professor Trelawney's 2nd Prediction. Also linked to the Harry Potter style sheet.
• Finished updating the Harry Potter Site Map - Chinese Simplified. Includes links to Harry Potter and the Ciwawa, How Does Dumbledore Speak in Japanese?, Professor Trelawney's 1st Prediction, and 'Weasley is our King'. Fixed up bad link to Professor Trelawney's 2nd Prediction. Also fixed up a long-standing and frankly unbelievable bad link from this page to the Traditional Chinese site map.
• Updated the Harry Potter Site Map - Japanese. Includes links to Harry Potter and the Ciwawa, Treatment of Relative Clauses in the Description of the Basilisk, Treatment of the Conjunction 'For' in the Description of the Basilisk, How Does Dumbledore Speak in Japanese?, Professor Trelawney's 1st Prediction, and 'Weasley is our King'. Fixed up bad link to Professor Trelawney's 2nd Prediction. Also linked to the Harry Potter style sheet.
• All this took an inordinate amount of time thanks to problems with Dreamweaver, which constantly screws up encodings other than English.

10 September 2004 (Beijing)

• Fixed up a few errors and omissions etc. in the Translation of Relative Clauses and the Translation of 'For' Clauses in the Description of the Basilisk.
• Added the Translation of Relative Clauses and the Translation of 'For' Clauses in the Description of the Basilisk to the Harry Potter Simplified Chinese (China) Home Page. Also linked this page to the main Harry Potter style sheet.

2 September 2004 (Beijing)

• The Japanese version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has appeared and a note to that effect has been added at the index page for Harry Potter. This site will be updated as soon as I can get my hands on a copy!

31 August 2004 (Beijing)

• Corrected a small error at the Translation of Owl Names in Harrry Potter.

30 August 2004 (Beijing)

• Partially converted the layout of Harry Potter to Cascading Style Sheets.
• Made a change to Harry Potter Book 3 Chapter 7 ('The Boggart in the Wardrobe') in line with a visitor's suggestion.
• Fixed up some of the graphics (traditional Chinese characters) in Harry Potter, to ensure that they are properly aligned.
• Made a few changes to the way Dumbledore speaks in Japanese.
• Added a page on the Treatment of the Conjunction 'For' in the Translation of the Description of the Basilisk.

22 August (Macau)

• Finally completed a section on the Translation of Relative Clauses in the Description of the Basilisk (Harry Potter Book 2). This is more interesting than it sounds. It uses real examples to demonstrate that conventional 'grammar' fails to capture the reality of writing. Grammatical structures are simply tools -- stylistic devices -- for expressing authorial intent, a fact that must be taken into account in translation. Although hardly earthshaking, I have yet to find the issue seriously addressed in scholarly literature, although I am sure there is stuff out there. If you know someone who has worked in this area, please point me to them.
• Also made a few changes to the page on the Description of the Basilisk and corrected a few points in the popup glosses.

18 August 2004 (Macau)

• Modified the note on Bandon at Footnotes to the Chinese Translation of Harry Potter, in line with a visitor's suggestion.

21 July 2004 (Hainan)

• Tone error rectified at Chapter 25 of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

23 June 2004 (Hainan)

• Added an extra page giving a synopsis of the story of Harry Potter and the Ci Wa Wa.

22 June 2004 (Hainan)

• Added section on Harry Potter and the Ci Wa Wa, an unauthorized Harry Potter book published in China. Harry goes to China to meet his Oriental nemesis.

4 June 2004 (Hainan)

• Slight rewriting of the page concerning the book title of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Also slight correction to Book 3 Chapter 11 graphics.

3 June 2004 (Hainan)

Thanks to prompt action by my host, Unicode and other encodings are now rendering correctly. Now I just have to wait for Google to notice and relist the relevant pages in the index!

2 June 2004 (Hainan)

• Discovered that my web host no longer appears to support Unicode, Chinese, or Japanese encodings following migration to a new system in May. All pages containing Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese script have been reduced to gibberish (excepting, of course, those pages using graphics). Pages affected include index to Harry Potter (Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Japanese), texts of songs and other passages in Harry Potter (Unicode), and 'How does Dumbledore speak in Japanese?' (Unicode). I am hoping that my web host can fix the problem; otherwise I will have to look for a new one. Am still waiting for a response from them.

25 March 2004 (Hainan)

• Completed entry for Chapter 25 of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which was in an incomplete state.

19 March 2004 (Hainan)

• Added some extra examples to the page on the way Dumbledore speaks in Japanese.

18 March 2004 (Hainan)

• Added page on 'How Dumbledore speaks when translated into Japanese'.

10 March 2004 (Hainan)

• Fixed up the page on Basic Hexes for the Busy and Vexed.

4 March 2004 (Hainan)

• Added link to Harry Potter links.

28 February 2004 (Hainan)

• At long last, put in the Japanese for Where There's a Wand There's a Way.

27 February 2004 (Hainan)

• Added the text of 'Weasley is Our King' and Professor Trelawney's first prediction from Book 5, both in Unicode form.

26 February 2004 (Hainan)

Finally, with a new computer (Mac iBook G4), I can begin updating the site again!

• Added the text of the Sorting Hat's new song in Chinese and Vietnamese (Japanese has yet to appear). This is in Unicode.
• Fixed up a couple of coding errors in the Harry Potter site map for Simplified Chinese (China) and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan).

9 January 2004 (Hainan)

• Added some more characters to Names in Harry Potter (mainly in Staff).

8 January 2004 (Hainan)

• Changed email address.
• Added date for publication of Harry Potter 5 in Japanese, based on interview with Yuko Matsuoka in Japan Times (thanks to Roy Berman for this). The date is 1 September 2004. A long wait for Japanese fans, but Matsuoka puts quality above speed.

6 January 2004 (Hainan)

• Slight rewriting of The Knight Bus (translation of word play) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (book title).

4 January 2004 (Hainan)

• Added a link to An Anthology of Eighteenth Century Charms regarding Daoist (Taoist) talismans.

2 January 2004 (Hainan)

• Added the last two chapters of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in Vietnamese (see chapter titles, Vietnamese instalments).
• Added missing graphics (Harry Potter: Names of Wizards).

25 December 2003 (Hainan)

• Added Kingsley Shacklebolt to names of wizards.
• Expanded note on Chapter 10, Book 1 of Harry Potter (Hallowe'en).

23 December 2003 (Hainan)

• Fixed up graphics in Harry Potter names, many of which had irregular size or positioning. Added 'Nymphadora Tonks'.

Oct, Nov, Dec 2003:

The main changes during these three months have been:

• Harry Potter has been given a new entry page, modelled on the Chinese and Japanese site maps, allowing all pages in the project to be directly accessed from the entry page. This involved scrapping a number of intermediate pages. The move has not gone down well with Google, which doesn't like long pages.
• Chinese (GB), Chinese (Big5), and Japanese site maps for Harry Potter have been given a long-overdue update to include new sections (mainly Book 5).
• Following on from Simplified Chinese (China) and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), information from Vietnamese Harry Potter Book 5 has been incorporated (chapter titles, book names, Vietnamese instalments).