In ancient Chinese civilization, emperors were revered as the direct descendants of the gods, who ruled all of nature and the heavens. Animal bones were consulted as oracles to answer the great questions of life and death, and ancestral spirits were thought to roam the earth, negotiating with the gods on behalf of the living. From the legends of the Eight Immortals to the teachings of Confucius…
Buku '100 Nama Marga China' adalah buku bacaan dasar yang dibuat oleh orang terpelajar di masa Song Utara di kota Qiantang (Hangzhou). Buku ini disusun dengan 4 kata Nama Marga sebagai satu kalimat seperti puisi yang sersuku kata 4. Walaupun tidak ada aturan tulisannya, tetapi mudah diingat, sehingga tersebar dan sangat besar pengaruhnya sampai saat ini.
After the three most famous poets – Li Bo ?? (701–762?), Wang Wei?? (701–761), Du Fu ?? (712–770) – of the reign of the Tangemperor Xuanzong ?? (r. 712–756) and extending roughly a decadeafterward, a half-century generally regarded as comprising the finestperiod of Tang poetry (i.e., the so-called “High Tang”), it is the poetMeng Haoran ??? (689–740) whose…
It was the summer of 1843, and in Tai County the okra flowers had just bloomed. Lu Yitian’s aunt, Madame Zhou, enjoyed making medi-cal concoctions and people came from all around seeking her treat-ment. There was a man who had been severely scalded, so that his body was covered in festering sores, and no one had been able to affect a cure. He came to beg for …
he Tuttle MORE Chinese for Kids Flash Cards (Simplified Character Edition) kit is an introductory Mandarin language learning tool especially designed to help children from preschool through early elementary level acquire basic words, Chinese characters, phrases, and sentences in Chinese in a fun and easy way. The flashcards can be used as a learning tool in a classroom setting, at home, or a…
This user-friendly book is aimed at helping students of Mandarin Chinese learn and remember Chinese characters. At last--there is a truly effective and enjoyable way to learn Chinese characters! This book helps students to learn and remember both the meanings and the pronunciations of over 800 characters. This otherwise daunting task is made easier by the use of techniques based on the psych…
Perkembangan China yang begitu pesat, didukung kuatnya pengaruh globalisasi, membuat kebutuhan menguasai bahasa Mandarin tidak terhindarkan lagi. Bahasa ini kian populer dipelajari hampir semua kalangan, baik komunitas Tionghoa maupun komunitas lain, untuk pergaulan, pendidikan, dan bisnis. Ngomong Mandarin, Ngobrolin China disusun oleh Penulis yang mengantongi berbagai prestasi di dalam dan lu…
Learn to read and write Chinese with Chineasy—a groundbreaking approach that transforms key Chinese characters into pictograms for easy recall and comprehension. Chinese is one of the oldest written languages, and one of the most difficult to master, especially for Westerners. With Chineasy, learning and reading Chinese has never been simpler or more fun. Breaking down the Great Wall of La…
Uncover the everyday Mandarin Chinese as it's spoken on the streets and in the alleys of China. With the help of Streetwise Mandarin Chinese, you'll get clued in on the frequently used idioms, colloquialisms, and slang currently used by Chinese speakers of all walks of life. The accompanying audio recordings include thirty dialogues performed by native speakers that bring the language of the st…
Learning Mandarin Chinese has never been this easy. This trusty travel companion features comprehensive definitions and colorful images of daily life, helping you appreciate the nuances of the language and master pronunciation. Keep the Mandarin Chinese-English Bilingual Dictionary by your side as you shop, eat, socialize, travel, and work. With more than 10,000 fully illustrated terms arra…
This book includes two pages of reading and writing exercises for each of the four parts of every unit of Basic Mandarin Chinese Reading & Writing. The first section of the reading and writing exercises consists of three phrases or sentences for dictation. * You should listen to the corresponding section of the included disc and transcribe what you hear into Chinese characters. Since this is fo…
It has been over ten years since Integrated Chinese (IC) came into existence in 1997. During these years, amid all the historical changes that took place in China and the rest of the world, the demand for Chinese language teaching-learning materials has been growing dramatically. We are greatly encouraged by the fact that IC not only has been a widely used textbook at the college level all over…
Readers of this volume will be able to tell from the Introduction andnotes throughout the book how great a debt I owe to many distin-guished scholars past and present. Without them, this work would havebeen impossible. Here I want to express my gratitude to a number ofpeople who have influenced this project more directly. The book isdedicated to David R. Knechtges, wh…
Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs offers fifteen essays on the triptych of poetry + translation + Chinese. The collection has three parts: "The Translator's Take," "Theoretics," and "Impact." The conversation stretches from queer-feminist engagement with China's newest poetry to philosophical and philological reflections on its oldest, and from Tang- and Song-dynasty classical p…
The Chinese state uses cultural heritage as a source of power by linking it to political and economic goals, but heritage discourse has at the same time encouraged new actors to appropriate the discourse to protect their own traditions. This book focuses on that contested nature of heritage, especially through the lens of individuals, local communities, religious groups, and heritage experts. I…
When traditional Chinese critics discuss pentasyllabic poetry,they usually give allegorical interpretations of individual works, makegeneral observations about social backgrounds and the lives of poets, oroffer impressionistic comments on the aesthetic qualities of the works ofgiven poets. Based on what they discover in these studies, they sketch abroad outli…
The poems in this book were written in Chinese, in the classicshih form.1 Their authors were Japanese Zen monks whose livestogether span the years from 1278 to 1429, for Japan a time ofturmoil but also of growth. Although ten of these sixteen menvisited China, all were born and died in Japan: for all, Chinesewas an acquired tongue. Most of their ver…
Shanghai’s January Revolution was a highly visible and, by all accounts, crucially important event in China’s Cultural Revolution. Its occurrence, along with the subsequent attempt to establish a “commune” form of municipal government, has greatly shaped our understanding both of the goals originally envisaged for the Cultural Revolution by its leaders and of the political positions hel…
This is a course in Standard Chinese, a language that is often colloquially referred to as Mandarin. The origins of this language and its position in the Chinese-speaking world will be discussed below, in the section on linguistic background.