Fifty Patterns Of Modern Chinese

This book includes fifty most widely used Chinese sentence patterns and is specially designed for intermediate learners of Chinese as a foreign language. Each chapter is divided into three parts: sentence examples with Pinyin and English translation, vocabulary, and structural analysis and patterns. An exercise is provided after every four chapters to help learners master the points under discussion.

This book includes fifty most widely used Chinese sentence patterns and is specially designed for intermediate learners of Chinese as a foreign language. Each chapter is divided into three parts: sentence examples with Pinyin and English translation, vocabulary, and structural analysis and patterns. An exercise is provided after every four chapters to help learners master the points under discussion.

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 Chinese language. Key features: organizes basic principles of Mandarin grammar into coherent categories. learner-oriented and problem-solving approach analysis approximately 150 commonly made errors. highlights and explains differences between Mandarin and English mnemonic devises provide vital learning strategies exercises with full answer key to reinforce learning examples in traditional characters provided in the appendix. Speed up your Chinese is the ideal reference for all learners of Chinese.

Clear, readable, and easy to consult, this book is an ideal reference for students to extend their knowledge of Chinese.

Fifty lessons examining both structural patterns and morphological features characteristic of Mandarin Chinese. The book describes cultural idiosyncrasies in language use as well as gives discoursal strategies for forming sustained conversations.

A Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken Chinese is intended as a companion reference work to Chinese textbooks for beginners. Over 200 points of grammar and vocabulary which frequently present difficulties to students of Chinese are dealt with here. Specifically, a comparative approach has been adopted. Contextual comparisons are made between the different usage of Chinese and English in terms of grammatical as well as vocabulary points. The book helps beginners of Chinese to get things right from the start. For teachers and more advanced students, it also serves as an easy and efficient reference for the essential grammatical and vocabulary points given in Chinese textbooks for beginners. Since its publication in 1989, this book as been well received by learners nad teachers of beginning Chinese. This simplified Chinese edition, based on the second edition of the book published in 1992, is produced for the convenient use of students whoa re more used to reading simplified Chinese characters.

Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains largely overlooked, particularly concerning women’s conditions and gender status. Consequently, the patriarchy and its oppression of women among the Han, the ethnic majority in China, are often inaccurately or erroneously associated with the whole gendered heritage of China, epitomized by the infamous traditions of footbinding and female-infanticide. Such academic and popular predisposition belies the fact that gender systems in China span a wide spectrum, ranging from extreme Han patriarchy to Lahu gender-egalitarianism. The authors contributing to this book have collectively initiated a systematic effort to bridge the gap between understanding the majority Han and ethnic minorities in regard to women and gender in contemporary Chinese societies. By achieving a quantitative balance between articles on the Han majority and those on ethnic minorities, this book transcends the ghettoization of ethnic minorities in the studies of Chinese women and gender. The eleven chapters of this volume are divided into three sections which jointly challenge the traditions and norms of Han patriarchy from various perspectives. The first section focuses on gender traditions among ethnic minorities which compete with the norms of Han patriarchy. The second section emphasizes the impact of radical social transformation on gender systems and practices among both Han and ethnic minorities. The third section underscores socio-cultural diversity and complexity in resistance to Han patriarchal norms from a broad perspective. This book complements previous scholarship on Chinese women and gender by expanding our investigative lens beyond Han patriarchy and providing images of the multi-ethnic landscape of China. By identifying the Han as an ethnically marked category and by bringing to the forefront the diverse gender systems of ethnic minorities, this book encourages an increasing awareness of, and sensitivity to the cross-cultural diversity of gendered China both in academia and beyond.

The definitive history of China’s philosophical confrontation with modernity, available for the first time in English. What does it mean for China to be modern, or for modernity to be Chinese? How is the notion of historical rupture—a fundamental distinction between tradition and modernity—compatible or not with the history of Chinese thought? These questions animate The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, a sprawling intellectual history considered one of the most significant achievements of modern Chinese scholarship, available here in English for the first time. Wang Hui traces the seventh-century origins of three key ideas—“principle” (li), “things” (wu), and “propensity” (shi)—and analyzes their continual evolution up to the beginning of the twentieth century. Confucian scholars grappled with the problem of linking transcendental law to the material world, thought to action—a goal that Wang argues became outdated as China’s socioeconomic conditions were radically transformed during the Song Dynasty. Wang shows how the epistemic shifts of that time period produced a new intellectual framework that has proven both durable and malleable, influencing generations of philosophers and even China’s transformation from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century. In a new preface, Wang also reflects on responses to his book since its original publication in Chinese. With theoretical rigor and uncommon insight into the roots of contemporary political commitments, Wang delivers a masterpiece of scholarship that is overdue in translation. Through deep readings of key figures and classical texts, The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought provides an account of Chinese philosophy and history that will transform our understanding of the modern not only in China but around the world.