Any account of reading the Chinese past is enriched by the fact that Chinese writing is both ancient and current. No other writing system of antiquity enjoys this benefit. Since the emergence of the earliest discernible process of writing, in northern China around 1200 b.c., the Chinese system has been used by millions of speakers, and today more people speak a Chinese language than any other. In his accessible, straightforward book, Oliver Moore demystifies one of the world's oldest writing sys...
Lulu's First Time (Learning with Lulu Reading Series Stage 4)
by Helen Wu
With stunning new design and layout and the most up-to-date travel information, the market's most indispensable phrasebook has been reinvented, and is better than ever. Gem Cantonese will give you the right word at the right time - every time In all of the most common travel situations, you need the reassurance that you can communicate with ease. A reliable, portable and easy-to-use phrasebook is a travel essential, and now with the completely re-designed Collins Gem Cantonese, the rig...
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher China; a vast country embracing a dizzying array of landscapes, cultures and langauges. With this book, you'll discover the people, not just the place. This phrasebook covers: Mandarin, Cantonese, Chaozhou, Dongbei Hua, Hakka, Hunanese, Shanghainese, Sichuanese, Xi'an, Yunnan Hua, Zhuang, Mongolian, Tibetan and Uighur. *14 languages with mini-dictionaries * Culture section on food, festivals and more! * Handy pronunciation guide thro...
Chinese-English Phrase Book for Travellers
A compact, easy-to-use guide to nearly 2,000 of the most commonly used and needed phrases and words for travellers to China and Chinese-speaking countries. Conveniently organized by situation, with official Pin yin romanization and supplementary phonetic spellings provided for each entry, for easier pronunciation. Also includes glossary of 2,000 common words. Vocabulary and pronunciation reflect the official national tongue used by the vast majority of the population, including all major cities.
An Introduction to Chinese Poetry (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by Michael A. Fuller
This innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers-including those with no knowledge of Chinese-as close as possible to the texture of the poems in their original language. The first two chapters introduce the features of classical Chinese that are important for poetry and then survey the formal and rhetorical conventions of classical poetry. The core chapters present the major poets an...
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...
Chinese and English Phrase Book with the Chinese Pronunciation Indicated in English - Scholar's Choice Edition
by Benoni Lanctot
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...
Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts (New Language Learning and Teaching Environments)
Chinese Idioms about Hares and Their Related Stories (The Chinese Library)
by Carol Chen
Learning Chinese Characters the Easy Way (Simplified Chinese Characters)
by Sam Song and Cheryl Song
Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese Workbook 2 (Traditional)
by Claudia Ross, Baozhang He, Pei-Chia Chen, and Meng Yeh
The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use and structures, while placing strong emphasis on the development of communicative skills. The complete course consists of Textbook Level 1, Workbook level 1 - including downloadable resources, Textbook lev...
A Street Cat Named Bob (Wheeler Publishing Large Print Hardcover)
by James Bowen
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet.Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly christened Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, imagining he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas....