Download or read book Journey to the West 2018 Edition PDF written by Wu Cheng'en and published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!

Download or read book The Chinese Language written by John DeFrancis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1986-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley

Download or read book Camel Xiangzi written by She Lao and published by Midland Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel marks the peak of Lao She's career as a professional writer and registers a new approach to the representation of China in its absurdist situation. It can be read as an "epic" of modern China.

Download or read book Three Little Pigs Traditional Chinese written by H. Y. Xiao and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book of an old British fairy tale, in English with IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) translated into Traditional Chinese with Tongyong Pinyin (used predominately in Taiwan). Selected arrangements and illustrations are based on a book by L. Leslie Brooke. Contains both color illustrations and B&W line drawings. OTHER PAPERBACK VERSIONS AVAILABLE: 01 Traditional Chinese (B&W ISBN:978-1505829730; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261099); 02 Traditional Chinese Zhuyin Fuhao (B&W ISBN:978-1505829747; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261105); 03 Traditional Chinese Tongyong Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505829754; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261112); 04 Traditional Chinese Hanyu Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505829761; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261129); 05 Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505829778; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261136); 06 Simplified Chinese (B&W ISBN:978-1505829785; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261143); 07 Traditional Chinese Zhuyin Fuhao with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829792; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261150); 08 Traditional Chinese Tongyong Pinyin with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829808; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261167); 09 Traditional Chinese Hanyu Pinyin with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829815; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261174); 10 Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829822; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261181). EBOOKS (COLOR) OF THESE 10 VERSIONS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IN GOOGLE PLAY (No ISBN; Search by Title).

Download or read book Loan Phonology written by Andrea Calabrese and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword nativization provides a direct window for observing how acoustic cues are categorized in terms of the distinctive features relevant to the L1 phonological system as well as for studying L1 phonological processes in action and thus to the true synchronic phonology of L1. The collection of essays presented in this volume provides an overview of the complex issues phonologists face when investigating this phenomenon and, more generally, the ways in which unfamiliar sounds and sound sequences are adapted to converge with the native language’s sound pattern. This book is of interest to theoretical phonologists as well as to linguists interested in language contact phenomena. As of January 2019, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Download or read book Alice in wonderland written by Lewis Carroll and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it. 'Well!' thought Alice to herself, 'after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely true.) Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an end! 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think—' (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) '—yes, that's about the right distance—but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)

Download or read book Chinese Final Particles and the Syntax of the Periphery written by Boya Li and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Island Fantasia written by Wei-Ping Lin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move forward. This in-depth ethnography and social history of the islands focuses on how individual citizens redefined themselves and reimagined their society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Wei-Ping Lin shows how islanders used both traditional and new media to cope with the conflicts and trauma of harsh military rule. She discusses the formation of new social imaginaries through the appearance of 'imagining subjects', interrogating their subjectification processes and varied uses of mediating technologies as they seek to answer existential questions. This title is Open Access.

Download or read book Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1 written by James W. Heisig and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last the approach that has helped thousands of learners memorize Japanese kanji has been adapted to help students with Chinese characters. Book 1 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi covers the writing and meaning of the 1,000 most commonly used characters in the simplified Chinese writing system, plus another 500 that are best learned at an early stage. (Book 2 adds another 1,500 characters for a total of 3,000.) Of critical importance to the approach found in these pages is the systematic arranging of characters in an order best suited to memorization. In the Chinese writing system, strokes and simple components are nested within relatively simple characters, which can, in turn, serve as parts of more complicated characters and so on. Taking advantage of this allows a logical ordering, making it possible for students to approach most new characters with prior knowledge that can greatly facilitate the learning process. Guidance and detailed instructions are provided along the way. Students are taught to employ "imaginative memory" to associate each character’s component parts, or "primitive elements," with one another and with a key word that has been carefully selected to represent an important meaning of the character. This is accomplished through the creation of a "story" that engagingly ties the primitive elements and key word together. In this way, the collections of dots, strokes, and components that make up the characters are associated in memorable fashion, dramatically shortening the time required for learning and helping to prevent characters from slipping out of memory.

Download or read book Three Little Pigs Simplified Chinese written by H. Y. Xiao and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book of an old British fairy tale, translated into Simplified Chinese with Hanyu Pinyin. Selected arrangements and illustrations are based on a book by L. Leslie Brooke. Contains both color illustrations and B&W line drawings. OTHER PAPERBACK VERSIONS AVAILABLE: 01 Traditional Chinese (B&W ISBN:978-1505829730; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261099); 02 Traditional Chinese Zhuyin Fuhao (B&W ISBN:978-1505829747; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261105); 03 Traditional Chinese Tongyong Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505829754; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261112); 04 Traditional Chinese Hanyu Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505829761; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261129); 05 Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505829778; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261136); 06 Simplified Chinese (B&W ISBN:978-1505829785; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261143); 07 Traditional Chinese Zhuyin Fuhao with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829792; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261150); 08 Traditional Chinese Tongyong Pinyin with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829808; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261167); 09 Traditional Chinese Hanyu Pinyin with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829815; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261174); 10 Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829822; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261181). EBOOKS (COLOR) OF THESE 10 VERSIONS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IN GOOGLE PLAY (No ISBN; Search by Title).

Download or read book Speak Cantonese written by Parker Po-fei Huang and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speak Cantonese, Book Three, is one of a series of books that teaches the modern spoken language of Cantonese, one of the major dialects of Chinese. As appropriate for a text of its kind, it is entirely in romaniation. This volume is the last of the Speak Cantonese series. It emphasizes introducing more idiomatic expressions heard in daily-life situations- a chat in a teahouse, an argument on a bus, a skit broadcast on the radio, etc.

Download or read book Three Little Pigs written by H. Y. Xiao and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please see free book catalogs at www urls: tiny.cc/traditional or tiny.cc/simplified. DESCRIPTION: A picture book of an old British fairy tale, translated into Simplified Chinese with Hanyu Pinyin. Selected arrangements and illustrations are based on a book by L. Leslie Brooke. (Greyscale B&W) OTHER PAPERBACK VERSIONS AVAILABLE: 01 Traditional Chinese (B&W ISBN:978-1505829730; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261099); 02 Traditional Chinese Zhuyin Fuhao (B&W ISBN:978-1505829747; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261105); 03 Traditional Chinese Tongyong Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505829754; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261112); 04 Traditional Chinese Hanyu Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505829761; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261129); 05 Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505829778; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261136); 06 Simplified Chinese (B&W ISBN:978-1505829785; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261143); 07 Traditional Chinese Zhuyin Fuhao with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829792; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261150); 08 Traditional Chinese Tongyong Pinyin with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829808; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261167); 09 Traditional Chinese Hanyu Pinyin with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829815; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261174); 10 Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505829822; COLOR ISBN:978-1503261181). EBOOKS (COLOR) OF THESE 10 VERSIONS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IN GOOGLE PLAY (No ISBN; Search by Title).

Download or read book Intonation in Cantonese written by Choi-Yeung-Chang Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Outline of Mandarin Phonetics written by Francis D. M. Dow and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chinglish written by Oliver Radtke Lutz and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2007-08-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinglish offers a humorous and insightful look at misuses of the English language in Chinese street signs, products, and advertising. A long-standing favorite of English speaking tourists and visitors, Chinglish is now quickly becoming a culture relic: in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the Chinese government is determined to wipe out incorrect English usage.

Download or read book A Grammar of Khatso written by Chris Donlay and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first grammar in English of Khatso, an endangered language spoken in a single farming village in China by descendants of Kublai Khan’s Mongol soldiers. Based on natural language from dozens of speakers, this analysis captures the way Khatso is spoken in daily life. As a result, it is the most comprehensive description of Khatso yet, providing an in-depth look at the features, structures and systems that comprise this unique language.

Download or read book Sinophone Southeast Asia written by Tom Hoogervorst and published by Chinese Overseas. This book was released on 2021 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume explores the diverse linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia's Chinese communities. Based on archival research and previously unpublished linguistic fieldwork, it unearths a wide variety of language histories, linguistic practices, and trajectories of words. The localized and often marginalized voices we bring to the spotlight are quickly disappearing in the wake of standardization and homogenization, yet they tell a story that is uniquely Southeast Asian in its rich hybridity. Our comparative scope and focus on language, analysed in tandem with history and culture, adds a refreshing dimension to the broader field of Sino-Southeast Asian Studies"--