[PDF] Its All Chinese To Me eBook

Author : Pierre Ostrowski
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1462920063

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It's All Chinese to Me is a fun and authentic introduction to Chinese culture that allows readers, tourists, and business travelers to experience what ultimately makes China so unique--its people. Learn about Chinese customs, proper etiquette for all types of situations, and how to interact effectively while traveling China. Firsthand tips and illustrations offer an authentic view of China and the many cultural differences that foreigners encounter there. This new edition of It's All Chinese to Me is revised and expanded with 25 percent new content, offering international visitors a set of essential insights to help demystify this highly complex and compelling culture. Readers will learn about: Major influences and historical events that guide behavior in modern China Fundamental concepts crucial to interacting with Chinese people Social idiosyncrasies that may surprise most Westerners Dealing with culture shock in China Peculiarities of Chinese business culture

Author : Pierre Ostrowski
Publisher : Independent Publishers Group
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :

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This fully illustrated overview of Chinese culture creates graphic impressions that allow the reader to get a real feel for what it's like to be in the "Middle Kingdom".

Author : Yu Hua
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0307739791

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From one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In "Disparity," for example, Yu Hua illustrates the expanding gaps that separate citizens of the country. In "Copycat," he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in "Bamboozle," he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud, and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society. Witty, insightful, and courageous, this is a refreshingly candid vision of the "Chinese miracle" and all of its consequences.

Author : Deborah Fallows
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 080277914X

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Deborah Fallows has spent a lot of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying learning the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering behavior and habits of its people, and its culture's conundrums. As her skill with Mandarin increased, bits of the language - a word, a phrase, an oddity of grammar - became windows into understanding romance, humor, protocol, relationships, and the overflowing humanity of modern China. Fallows learned, for example, that the abrupt, blunt way of speaking which Chinese people sometimes use isn't rudeness, but is, in fact a way to acknowledge and honor the closeness between two friends. She learned that English speakers' trouble with hearing or saying tones-the variations in inflection that can change a word's meaning-is matched by Chinese speakers' inability not to hear tones, or to even take a guess at understanding what might have been meant when foreigners misuse them. Dreaming in Chinese is the story of what Deborah Fallows discovered about the Chinese language, and how that helped her make sense of what had at first seemed like the chaos and contradiction of everyday life in China.

Author : Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393307801

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In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.

Author : Claire Huchet Bishop
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 9781404602915

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Five brothers who look just alike outwit the executioner by using their extraordinary individual qualities.

Author : Gene Luen Yang
Publisher : First Second
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2006-09-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1466805463

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A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax. American Born Chinese is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core Connections

Author : The Arthur Waley Estate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1136577289

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First published in 1934. Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Tê Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole of early Chinese literature.