没想到啊没想到,老外不但关注了我们的“山寨”,就连神兽“草泥马”也不放过…
下文转自the New York Times的网站
By MICHAEL WINES
Published: March 11, 2009
地址如下:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/world/asia/12beast.html?_r=3
原文:
BEIJING — Since its first unheralded appearance in January on a Chinese Web page, the grass-mud horse has become nothing less than a phenomenon.A YouTube children’s song about the beast has drawn nearly 1.4 million viewers. A grass-mud horse cartoon has logged a quarter million more views. A nature documentary on its habits attracted 180,000 more. Stores are selling grass-mud horse dolls. Chinese intellectuals are writing treatises on the grass-mud horse’s social importance. The story of the grass-mud horse’s struggle against the evil river crab has spread far and wide across the Chinese online community.