Get ready to ace your AP Chinese Language and Culture Exam with this easy-to-follow study guide and audio program! 5 Steps to a 5: AP Chinese Language and Culture 2019 introduces an easy to follow, effective 5-step study plan to help you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to achieve a high score on the exam. This essential guide reflects the latest course syllabus and includes 3 full-length practice exams, the most up-to-date scoring information, and a complete audi...
Mimi's Chinese New Year (Learning with Lulu Reading Series Stage 1)
by Helen Wu
Guess Who I am (Learning with Lulu Reading Series Stage 1)
by Keyu Tan
The Grand Valley (Learning with Lulu Reading Series Stage 3)
by Keyu Tan
Chinese Through Song represents an innovative approach to language acquisition: students develop their language proficiency and music appreciation through learning Chinese songs. They expand their vocabularies and improve their pronunciation, voice projection, and language expression—all while learning about Chinese culture in a way that is full of fun and stimulation. The book contains twenty folk, art, and popular songs. It may be used in several ways: as the main textbook for an interdiscipl...
Architects of Affluence (Harvard East Asian Monographs, #166)
by Thomas R. H. Havens
Traces the history of the Japanese Tsutsumi family's enterprises in transportation, retailing, travel, and leisure, from the family's colorful founder Pistol Tsutsumi to the present. Examines the management styles and marketing techniques that have allowed the family's Seibu and Saison enterprises
A beautifully curated presentation of the Thousand Character Essay, a masterpiece of Chinese calligraphy that has served as the art form's classic manual for over 1,400 years. Sung to infants as a lullaby, used to teach reading and writing, and employed as library index codes, the Thousand Character Essay is China's most widely used and beloved calligraphy textbook. Composed by the literary giant Zhou Xingsi and handwritten by sixth-century Buddhist monk Zhiyong, this masterful work has endure...
Providing Global IT Solutions from China (Cases in Modern Chinese Business)
Providing Global IT Solutions from China explores Huawei’s ten year process of successful globalisation from four key perspectives: Huawei as the star company, Huawei as the globalised company, Huawei as the competitor of other companies, and Huawei as the controversial company. Revealing and informative, it provides numerous examples and suggestions for other companies seeking to expand into overseas markets. The layout and format is very clearly structured, making it easy for the reader to jum...
Your First 100 Words in Chinese (Your First 100 Words In...Series)
by Jane Wightwick
Your First 100 Words series removes intimidation from learning a foreign language that uses a non-roman alphabet or characters. Learners are shown how to decipher and read the new script while they learn 100 primary words in a new language. Flash cards illustrate each of the words and make learning a foreign alphabet easy. Fun activities-- such as word searches-- reinforce recognition and reading skills. Tackles the primary obstacle-- a strange script-- which often scares away learners A great...
From Start-up to Success (Cases in Modern Chinese Business)
This casebook tells the story of Xiecheng, a hugely successful hotel chain in China, with a clear focus on the forming and creation of its powerful and successful management team. Who they are, and the part they played in Xiecheng’s impressive growth and performance. The reader will benefit from a clear insight into how a company expands and ideas to help overcome challenges and pitfalls along the way. This book is an intimate portrayal of how the idea for a business is conceived one evening ov...
The Sociology of Gambling in China (The Impact of Change in Modern China)
This study is the result of years of teaching and research by Professor TJ Cheng at the University of Macau. His knowledge of Macau which is the world's gambling capital larger than Las Vegas in absolute money terms, has afforded him to the opportunity to analyse both the personal and social impact of gambling. This bold and far-sighted work attempts to analyze gambling behaviour in a systematic, all-round and multi-perspective manner. All facets of gambling are discussed including culture, hist...
The discipline of Sinology, as it has been developed in the West, is rooted in philology. Despite the variety of new scholarly fashions and approaches to the study of premodern China that have arisen during the past half-century, the careful examination of texts remains fundamental for all serious Sinological work. In this we are beholden to those European, and latterly, American, scholars who, over several generations, painstakingly established the standards for such work. But no comprehensive...
Literature and Society: Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese (Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese)
by Professor Chih-P'Ing Chou, Ying Wang, and Xuedong Wang