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This comprehensive trilingual phrase book serves as a useful reference book for visitors/business travellers/students from Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, Mainland China and Hong Kong. It covers a wide range of daily-life situations and is organized in three columns for quick and easy access.

Advanced Modern Chinese: Learning through Contemporary Film aims to develop Chinese advanced level students’ language skills through movies, broaden their knowledge about China, as well as develop their appreciation of the artistic characteristics of film. This textbook is based on the principles of Content-Based Instruction and ACTFL Foreign Language Proficiency Guidelines for the "advanced" level. The authors carefully selected ten movies, of which eight are released after 2015, by filmmaker...

This study makes a linguistic case for the twentieth century revolution in Chinese language and literature. It offers a history of reform and change in the Chinese language throughout the country's history, and focuses on the concept of 'baihua', a language reform movement championed by Hu Shi and other scholars which laid the foundation for the May fourth New Literature Movement, the larger New Culture Movement and which now defines modern Chinese. Examining the differences between classical an...

Planning a trip to China and need to learn Chinese? Want to learn Chinese fast, quick and easy? Need a reference for your upcoming trip to China? Need grammar, spelling or just pronunciation of a word in the Chinese Language? Want to know how to say common greetings in Chinese? How about what you will need to say when dining and shopping? All the answers are just one click away!

This is the first work in English to explore Manchukuo literature in its entirety. It provides comprehensive, in-depth, and thought-provoking research by placing the literary history of Manchukuo from 1937 to 1941 in specific cultural lineages and socio-political contexts and focusing on four major literary groups of that period—the Manshū rōmanha, the Sakubun writers, the Yiwenzhi intellectuals, and the Wenxuan School—to illuminate its underlying intellectual dynamics. As it turns out, Manchuku...

Bright new covers in Berlitz blue for easier consumer and brand recognition - Over 30 titles in the range, covering 40 languages all with more than 1200 essential phrases plus a 2300 word dictionary - Sections covering the most popular situations - Basic expressions and greetings, eating out, travel, sightseeing, shopping, heath and more - New page design with improved colour coding for ease of use - Each phrasebook has a handy grammar reference section and full pronunciation guide

社会视角 Social Perspective is a course set over one academic year for intermediate learners of Chinese. In two volumes, it focuses on developing learners’ language competency to a high advanced plus/advanced level (ACTFL/CEFR B2-C1) through exploring social issues in contemporary China. The textbook draws upon the discussion of a wide range of current social issues in China to provide students with a real-life background to increase their debating and written skills. Volume I explores five to...

Published in Chinese, using rich images and illustrations plus insight and commentaries from leading Chinese experts, this book reveals and explores the finest buildings from the Three Kingdoms, Western & Eastern Jin Dynasties, Northern & Southern Dynasties Period, & the Sui-Tang Period in China. The large A4 format ensures the splendour of the wonderful buildings examined in this book is captured in their rightful glory. Part of Paths International's Ancient Chinese Architecture History series...