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  • Perception and Production of Mandarin Tones by Native Speakers and L2 Learners

    by Bei Yang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Tones are the most challenging aspect of learning Chinese as a second language, and L2 learners’ perceptual categories differ in important and fascinating ways from those of native speakers. This book explores the relationship between tone perception and production among native speakers and non-native learners as illustrated in the experiments the author conducted with native speakers, true ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Sidetracks

    by Bei Dao ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Yang ...
    A lyrical masterpiece by the renowned poet with a “Whitman-like rhetorical immensity coupled with a passionately eccentric sensibility” (Carol Muske Dukes, Los Angeles Times)A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2024A 2024 NPR BOOK WE LOVEA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZESidetracks, Bei Dao’s first new collection... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Without Love, Chaos

    by Yang Bei ...
    Why is the world in chaos? This book gives a single answer: without love, chaos.Love, in the philosophical sense, is not human nature but divine nature: it cannot be traded, it grows stronger through resonance rather than possession, and it does not die. Most of what flies the flag of love is false love in three forms — possessiveness, family blackmail, and tribalism — and institutions, including ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modeling, Optimization, and Control of Zinc Hydrometallurgical Purification Process

    by Chunhua Yang, Bei Sun ...
    Series series Emerging Methodologies and Applications in Modelling, Identification and Control
    Modeling, Optimization and Control of Zinc Hydrometallurgical Purification Process provides a clear picture on how to develop a mathematical model for complex industrial processes, how to design the optimization strategy, and how to apply control methods in order to achieve desired production target. This book shares the authors' recent ideas/methodologies/algorithms on the intelligent ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Chinese Dialectology

    A Historical and Social Overview

    by Rujie You ...
    Translated by Bei Yang, Ka Ian Leong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores one of the richest dialect families in the world: Chinese dialects. It covers all aspects of Chinese dialectology, from descriptive investigations, to dialect geography and philology, history, variation, language contact and sociolinguistics, and also includes a unique bibliography of dialect works by Western missionaries, explaining profound theories in simple language with ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • City Gate, Open Up

    by Bei Dao ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Yang ...
    A magical, impressionistic autobiography by China’s legendary poet Bei DaoIn 2001, to visit his sick father, the exiled poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first time in over twenty years. The city of his birth was totally unrecognizable. “My city that once was had vanished,” he writes: “I was a foreigner in my hometown.” The shock of this experience released a flood of memories and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Korean Language

    Structure, Use and Context

    by Jae Jung Song ...
    Suitable for students of all levels, this book provides a general description of the Korean language by highlighting important structural aspects whilst keeping technical details to a minimum. By examining the Korean language in its geographical, historical, social and cultural context the reader is able to gain a good understanding of its speakers and the environment in which it is used. The book ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    by David Moser ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • An Anatomy of Chinese

    Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

    by Perry Link ...
    During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society

    by Yuehping Yen ...
    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Adopted Territory

    Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

    by Eleana J. Kim ...
    Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of South Korea ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Chinese

    by Jerry Norman ...
    Series series Cambridge Language Surveys
    This general introduction to the study of the Chinese language traces its history from its beginings in the second millennium BC to the present day and provides a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status. Chinese in its numerous dialect forms, has more speakers than any language in the modern world, and this vast extension in time and space brings to its study an ... Read more

    $75.99 USD