Cholera Camp: Beijing's subway stops, literally translated

By James Griffiths, April 24, 2014

Inspired by the Hong Kong MTR translated map which went viral earlier this month, our friends at China Real Time have given the Beijing subway system the same treatment.

The WSJ's finest China hands are quick to point out that the map is far from exhaustive, but it's a damn good attempt.

We couldn’t fit all 200+ stations, so we narrowed it down to some with the best translations.

It was hard to come up with a good methodology, but in the end we opted to essentially plug individual characters into Baidu translate and see what came out.

[Image via Wall Street Journal]

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