HARRY POTTER IN CHINESE, JAPANESE, AND VIETNAMESE
LOG OF UPDATES 2005

31 December 2005 (Macau)

• Deleted the page on the Harry Potter movies in China -- content is dated and I have no intention of expanding the site in this direction.
• Revised information in some chapters from Book 6 (Chapter 3, Chapter 8, and Chapter 16).
• Added tentative Japanese title for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
• Revised some information in Numerology and Grammatica.
• Added Voldemort's family members to names of wizards.
• Updated Where to buy Harry Potter in translation but did not add any new information on suppliers.

20 December 2005 (Beijing)

• Continued to convert CJV in Book 2 chapter titles from graphics to Unicode. Fixed errors in Chapter 5.

18 December 2005 (Beijing)

• Rewrote The House of Gaunt and Elf Tails.
• Tinkered with miscellaneous chapter title articles (e.g., The Burrow and The Portkey).
• Rewrote Nose-biting Teacup and tinkered with a few other articles relating to gadgets.
• Added a few links to the Harry Potter Lexicon.
• Played about with the classification of Magical Books.

17 December 2005 (Beijing)

• Rewrote some parts of Portkey (originally incorrectly linked to as Pensieve) and Auto-Answer Quills.
• Rewrote some chapter title pages relating to Horace Slughorn.
• Converted CJV in a few Book 2 chapter titles from graphics to Unicode.
• Re-uploaded Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (book title).

3 December 2005 (Beijing)

• Converted CJV in some Book 2 chapter titles from graphics to Unicode, with a few revisions. In particular, the Vietnamese title for The Burrow has been updated to match that in the single-volume version, which differs from that used in the original instalment.

2 December 2005 (Beijing)

I now have the Taiwanese translation, bought in Singapore.

• Converted CJV in most book titles from graphics to Unicode, with slight rewritings and corrections.
• Similarly converted CJV in the remainder of Book 1 chapter titles from graphics to Unicode, with some rewriting and correction.
• Added Taiwanese names for magical books found in Book 6.

11 November 2005 (Beijing)

• Converted CJV in more book titles from graphics to Unicode and added Mainland and Vietnamese translations of book names in Book 6 to the List of Magical Books.

10 November 2005 (Beijing)

• Converted some magical book titles from graphics to Unicode.
• Converted a few more Chapter Titles in Book 1 from graphics to Unicode.

9 November 2005 (Beijing)

• Converted some magical book titles from graphics to Unicode.
• Also switched CJV in some Book 1 chapter titles from graphics to Unicode.

7 November 2005 (Beijing)

• Added more Vietnamese chapter title explanations at individual pages in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

6 November 2005 (Beijing)

• Added some Vietnamese chapter title explanations at individual pages in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Rewrote some pages.

5 November 2005 (Beijing)

I now have the Vietnamese version.

• Added Vietnamese chapter titles to Chapter Titles at a Glance (Book 6).

1 November 2005 (Beijing)

• Added Taiwanese chapter titles to pages relating to chapters 20-30.

31 October 2005 (Beijing)

• Added Taiwanese chapter titles for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (At a Glance). I am endebted to Gene Zhang for supplying the chapter titles.
• Added Taiwanese chapter titles for pages relating to chapters 1-19.

23 October 2005 (Beijing)

• Added chapters 11-30 for for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
• Added a couple of names to the Names section.
• Fixed up errors in navigation.

22 October 2005 (Beijing)

• Added chapters 1-10 for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
• Fixed some errors at chapter titles for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

21 October 2005 (Beijing)

• Added Simplified Chinese (China) Chapter titles for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

15 October 2005 (Beijing)

• Added information on the boggart (Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 7). Thanks to Ian Slater for pointing out that boggarts are an actual creature in folklore.
• Updated 'Half-Blood Prince' publication details.

10 October 2005 (Beijing)

• Added extra information about Fawkes (names of critters); thanks to Ian Slater for pointing out connection with Guy Fawkes.

5 October 2005 (Beijing)

• Rewrote explanation of Pigwidgeon (Chinese).

4 October 2005 (Beijing)

• Added a few place names.
• CJV script on the index page for Book Titles has been converted from graphics to Unicode and errors of navigation corrected.

3 October 2005 (Beijing)

• Updated romanisation in Chapter Title and Name sections to Unicode.
• Added Japanese orthography to glosses for Book 5 book titles. (For the past year, only romanisation had been given).
• Fixed some errors and made a few changes to the text in the process.

2 October 2005 (Beijing)

• Added some notes on Book 6 to Publication Details. The Taiwanese and (I believe) the Vietnamese versions are out but I haven't got hold of them yet.
• Fixed up a few mistakes at Omnioculars. The colour scheme at Gadgets pages has been changed.
• Added Floo Powder.
• Updating of the site is progressing slowly.

9 September 2005 (Macau)

• Added note on the date of publication of the Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) version of Book 6 (1 October).
• As an aside, I have to update the site to Unicode and restructure navigation before I can start adding new material. It is doubtful if I can have the site ready by the time the Chinese translations come out.

16 August 2005 (Beijing)

• Somewhat rewrote the note on Book 6, including information on the publication of the Vietnamese version.

18 July 2005 (Macau)

• Added a note on Book 6, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, at the Index Page.

25 May 2005 (Macau)

• Rewrote Nose-Biting Teacup to make it more focussed.

11 May 2005 (Beijing)

• Fixed up error in Spellman's Syllabary.
• Added Unicode Savvy signs to Lunascope, Omnioculars, and Time-Turner.
• Converted Book 2 title pages completely to Unicode (although graphics remain).

10 May 2005 (Beijing)

• Streamlined Omnioculars by omitting superfluous material. Also tightened up Nose-Biting Teacup.

4 May 2005 (Beijing)

• Added 'weeping willow' note to Book 2, Chapter 5 (The Whomping Willow).

1 May 2005 (Beijing)

• Added Detachable Cribbing Cuffs and Nose-Biting Teacup to gadgets.

30 April 2005 (Beijing)

• Added Lunascope to the gadgets section. Slightly tightened up Omnioculars.

21 April 2005 (Beijing)

• Made a few small changes to Omnioculars.

1 April 2005 (Beijing)

• Added Gobstones to the gadgets section.

23 March 2005 (Beijing)

• Added Sneak-o-scope to the gadgets section.

17 March 2005 (Beijing)

• Added Put-Outer and Time-Turner to the gadgets section.

16 March 2005 (Beijing)

• Added Omnioculars to the gadgets section.

28 February 2005 (Macau)

• Fixed up problems in glosses to Once or twice a minute all summer.

27 February 2005 (Macau)

• Added glosses to Once or twice a minute all summer (Mainland Chinese, Taiwan Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese).

17 February 2005 (Macau)

• Added brief note on the Vietnamese word for 'theory' (lý thuyết) at Magical Theory and Defensive Magical Theory.

15 February 2005 (Macau)

• Added page on the Broom Compass.

14 February 2005 (Macau)

• Added pages on Auto-Answer Quill and Quick-Quotes Quill.

12 February 2005 (Macau)

• Added pages on the Ever-Bashing Boomerang and the Fanged Frisbee.

6 February 2005 (Macau)

• Added a link.

3 February 2005 (Macau)

• Made a few corrections to Once or twice a minute all summer.

29 January 2005 (Macau)

• Made a slight change to Asiatic Anti-Venoms (specificially to the translation of the Taiwanese title) following a suggestion from a visitor.

22 January 2005 (Macau)

• Added a number of Hong Kong and Taiwanese bookshops where Harry Potter can be bought in Chinese. (Thanks to Eric Bute for his valuable help).

16 January 2005 (Macau)

• Updated the Site Maps in Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), and Japanese to reflect changes in the past months. Managed to fix up major mistakes in the HTML of the Chinese Simplified site map that Dreamweaver was unable to rectify, along with some other errors. Made a few minor changes to content.

11 January 2005 (Macau)

• Fixed up a couple of tone errors in Boa Constrictor and Wandering Minstrel Owl.

3 January 2005 (Macau)

• Made a few minor changes to the Hand of Glory, the Foe Glass, and the Gubraithian Fire.