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This Ebook is dedicated to enrich your knowledge with the most commonly used everyday Chinese slang.every slang word is followed by an example to clarify how to use it. All is writen in Chinese characters following by pinyin and English translation. The slang words were picked by a young native Chinese girl who is very accuanted with the modern most commonly used slang in current China. The Ebook is attached by audio records which ellows you to listen...
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Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood is a collection of creative non-fiction essays. Through story, contributing authors explore how expectations collide with the complex realities we face as we mother. They illustrate how mothering is inextricably linked to the positions we occupy within our specific socio-cultural contexts; how our versions of mothering are transformed in relationship to the children we raise, long for, and mourn. Together, as writers...
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Reintroduces the concept of "world literature" in a truly global context, transcending past Eurocentrism.
The study of world literature is on the rise. Until recently, the term "world literature" was a misnomer in comparative literature scholarship, which typically focused on Western literature in European languages. In an increasingly globalized era, this is beginning to change. In this collection of essays, Zhang Longxi discusses how we can transcend...
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"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Art History and Criticism, Association of American Publishers" Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, where he is also director of the Center for the Art of East Asia. His many books include A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture (Princeton) and Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China.
A sweeping look...
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This Ebook is dedicated to make the Chinese pronunciation perfect. In this Ebook there is the pinyin chart and various texts following by native Chinese audio.through a link in the end of the book). Reading the chart and the following texts while listening to the audio and follow the pronunciation yourself again and again will bring your chinese pronunciation to a much higher level.
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Love stories formed a major part of the classical short story genre in China from as early as the eighth century, when men of letters began to write about romantic encounters. In later centuries, such stories provided inspiration for several new literary genres. While much scholarly attention has been focused on the short story of both the medieval and late imperial eras, comparatively little work has been attempted on the interim stage, the Song...
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Être sinologue, c'est chercher à comprendre et à faire comprendre les multiples facettes de la société et de la culture de la Chine. Par son isolement physique et culturel à l'autre bout de l'Eurasie, la Chine se donne comme l'Autre du monde indo-européen. Il incombe au sinologue de « traduire » cette différence pour à la fois comprendre et respecter la spécificité chinoise, enrichir l'esprit et le cœur de l'Occident, et favoriser la...
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This book is part of the Journey to the West series of stories for students learning to read Chinese. It is based on the epic 16th-century novel of the same name by Wu Chen'en. The novel is loosely based on an actual journey by the Buddhist monk Tangseng (formerly called Xuanzang), who traveled from the Chinese city of Chang'an westward to India in 629 A.D. and returned 17-years later with priceless knowledge and spiritual texts. Over the course of...
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Sources show Qu Yuan (340–278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which forms the core of the "The Songs of Chu," the second oldest anthology of Chinese poetry, derives its imagery from shamanistic ritual. Its shaman hymns are among the most beautiful and mysterious liturgical works...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic"--Provided by publisher.
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This textbook is the first part of my first Ebook about English expressions - how to say them in Chinese. As we know, many expressions are universal and exist in many languages. Every language uses its own metaphors and its own method to describe them. English contains many commonly used expressions to express many ideas and contents. The parallel Chinese expression are generally (but not totally) not derived by literal translation word by word. In...
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Two curious creatures set off on a perilous journey to reunite a little bird with his mother. Along the way, the two new friends cross paths with animals of many shapes and sizes. Some of these animals are helpful. Others are hungry!
This wonderful little story for beginning Chinese students is written with a vocabulary of just 260 Chinese words.
Each page of Simplified Chinese also includes pinyin (phonetic spelling) and English. A complete glossary...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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When Genie Lo learns of a cosmos-threatening force while the Jade Emperor is absent, she leads a party of quarrelsome Chinese gods through multiple planes of reality on a quest that will require sacrifice, not strength.
As a Heaven-appointed Guardian, even the well-being of demons in the Bay Area is Genie Lo's responsibility-- and their numbers are multiplying. Guanyin and Quentin are doing their best to help. The Jade Emperor is AWOL, and Genie...
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Years after her Chinese half-sister assails her with ghost stories set in the mysterious world of Yin, Olivia - a young woman from San Francisco - finds herself in China. Looking for a way to reconcile her past with dreams for her future, Olivia's American assumptions are shaken by Chinese ghosts, but she also finds reasons to hope.
Read by author Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses unfolds a series of family secrets that question the connections...
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