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  • 500 Common Chinese Idioms

    An Annotated Frequency Dictionary

    by Liwei Jiao, Weiguo Zhang, Cornelius Kubler ...
    First published in 2010. 500 Common Chinese Idioms is a unique tool for learners. Presenting the 500 most commonly used Chinese idioms or ‘chengyu’, this dictionary presents:The idiom in both simplified and traditional charactersThe idiom in pinyin romanisationA literal English translation and English equivalentsTwo suitable example sentences, plus explanations and usage notesThe dic... ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • 500 Common Chinese Proverbs and Colloquial Expressions

    An Annotated Frequency Dictionary

    by Liwei Jiao, Benjamin Stone ...
    500 Common Chinese Proverbs and Colloquial Expressions is a dictionary of key Chinese proverbs or suyu. Suyu are vivid and colourful expressions widely used in Chinese language. The smooth use of chengyu in Chinese writing and of suyu in spoken Chinese not only makes communication more effective, it is also an indicator of mastery of the language.This dictionary will provide an ideal resource for ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • A Cultural Dictionary of The Chinese Language

    500 Proverbs, Idioms and Maxims 文化五百条

    by Liwei Jiao ...
    A Cultural Dictionary of the Chinese Language introduces the 500 most important cultural traits of the Chinese as reflected in language use, especially in Chinese idioms (chengyu), proverbs and colloquial expressions (suyu).Communicative competence, the ultimate goal of language learning, consists of not only linguistic, but intercultural competence, which enables the language learner to speak ... Read more

    Was $82.99 USD Now $73.99 USD

  • A Thematic Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese

    by Liwei Jiao, Yan Yang, Wei Liu ...
    A Thematic Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese is a unique resource for intermediate to advanced students of Chinese.The dictionary presents 9,000 words organized thematically in 300 different subject areas. These themes cover the vocabulary necessary for daily use and for conducting meaningful conversations with native Chinese speakers on a variety of topics, from politics to business, and from ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course

    Crossing Cultural Boundaries

    by Kunshan Carolyn Lee, Hsin-hsin Liang, Liwei Jiao, Julian Wheatley ...
    The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries is an innovative multimedia course for advanced students of Chinese. Written by a team of highly experienced instructors, the book offers advanced learners the opportunity to consolidate their knowledge of Chinese through a wide range of activities designed to build up both excellent language skills and cultural ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture

    Edited by Liwei Jiao ...
    Series series Routledge Language Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture represents the first English anthology that delves into the fascinating and thought-provoking relationship between the Chinese language and culture, exploring various macro and micro perspectives.Chinese culture boasts a history of ten thousand years, while the Chinese language’s recorded history spans at least three thousand years, dating ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Property and Energy Conversion Technology of Solid Composite Sorbents

    by Liwei Wang, Guoliang An, Jiao Gao, Ruzhu Wang ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Solid chemisorption technology is an effective form of energy conversion for recovering low-grade thermal energy, but limited thermal conductivity and agglomeration phenomena greatly limit its performance. Over the past 20 years, researchers have explored the use of thermal conductive porous matrix to improve heat and mass transfer performance. Their efforts have yielded composite sorption ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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    by Cornelius C. Kubler ...
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    $17.99 USD

  • Speed Up Your Chinese

    Strategies to Avoid Common Errors

    by Shin Yong Robson ...
    Series series Speed up your Language Skills
    Speed up your Chinese is a unique and innovative resource that identifies and explains the common errors that English-speaking learners of Chinese repeatedly make.The book brings together these common errors to offer a valuable insight into the differences between English and Chinese and to reveal the inner workings of the latter allowing students to enhance their understanding and mastery of the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Borders of Chinese Civilization

    Geography and History at Empire's End

    by Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi, Douglas Howland ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan—the travel diary, poetry, and the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Routledge Intermediate Chinese Reader

    by Helen Shen, Zhou Yunong, Xiaoyuan Zhao ...
    Series series Routledge Modern Language Readers
    The Routledge Intermediate Chinese Reader is a comprehensive reader designed to provide varied, stimulating and up-to-date reading material for learners of Chinese at the intermediate level.The Chinese Reader provides a bridge between basic literacy skills and the ability to read full novels and newspapers in Chinese. It consists of forty readings, graded on the basis of complexity of vocabulary, ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Nominal Things

    Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China

    by Jeffrey Moser ...
    How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia.This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document ancient artifacts. As Jeffrey Moser argues, the visual, technical, and conceptual mechanisms they developed to record these objects laid the ... Read more

    $41.09 USD