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  • Turkishby Celia Kerslake; ; Asli ksel

    Routledge 2005; US$ 68.95

    Turkish belongs to the Turkic family of languages, which have been spoken for many centuries across a vast territory from the Balkans to China. Within this family, which includes such languages as Uighur, Uzbek, Tatar and Kazakh, Turkish forms part of the southwestern or Oghuz branch. Its closest relatives are Gagauz (spoken by less than 200,000 people of Orthodox Christian religion, mostly in southern Moldova), Azerbaijanian (spoken by up to 20 million people in Iran and Azerbaijan) and Turkmen (spoken by some 3 million people in Turkmenistan and by about 400,000 in Iraq). more...

  • Thaiby David Smyth

    Routledge 2002; US$ 40.95

    This is a user-friendly guide to the basic structures of Thai. It is designed for use both by students and independent learners, and includes guidance on pronunciation, the Thai writing system and the grammar. more...

  • Mulanby Shiamin Kwa; Wilt L. Idema

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 11.50

    The legend of Mulan?the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place?remains one of the most popular Chinese folktales despite (or because of) its lack of supernatural demonstrations or interventions. This volume offers lively translations of the earliest recorded version of the legend and several later iterations of the tale (including the screenplay of the hugely successful 1939 Chinese film Mulan Joins the Army), illustrating the many ways that reinterpretations of this basic story reflect centuries of changes in Chinese cultural, political, and sexual attitudes. An Introduction traces the evolution of the Mulan legend and its significance in the history of Chinese popular culture.... more...

  • Dictionary of Chinese Symbolsby Wolfram Eberhard

    Routledge 1988; US$ 35.95

    A guide describing more than 400 important Chinese symbols, explaining their esoteric meanings and connections. Their use and development in Chinese literature, customs and attitudes to life are traced lucidly and precisely. more...

  • Alyawarr to English Dictionaryby Jenny Green

    IAD Press 1992; US$ 23.45

    The centre of Alyawarr country lies about 200 kilometres to the north-east of Alice Springs, a land of spinifex sandhills, mulga plains and low rocky outcrops crossed by the Sandover and Bundey Rivers. The language of the Alyawarr people is now recorded in this landmark dictionary, the first ever published of an Arandic language. It contains over 4,500 entries and sub-entries, an English to Alyawarr finder list, as well as example sentences, cultural information and tables of pronouns and grammatical endings. more...

  • African Literature, Animism and Politicsby Caroline Rooney

    Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95

    This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of a certain Africanist discourse and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. more...

  • Operation Clancyby Helene Smith

    Fremantle Arts Centre Press 1994; US$ 3.95

    Just before he turned twelve, Tony Jones got his picture in the paper ... It was a close-up, showing little drops of water on his face, his hair still wet from the sea and a smile in his eyes. From that day on, his life went into a spin. more...

  • Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Centuryby Pang-Yuan Chi; David Der-wei Wang

    Indiana University Press 2000; US$ 35.15

    "... an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature." -- Choice "This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949... discusses such trends as modernism, nativism, realism, root-seeking and 'scar' literature, 'misty' poets, and political, feminist, and societal issues in modern Chinese literature." -- Library Journal This volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to... more...

  • Tsao Hsueh-chin's Dream of the Red Chamberby Zhang Xiugui

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 5.99

    The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on Dream of the Red Chamber explores China ’s best-known novel, a massive, sprawling story set during the Ching Dynasty, China ’s last feudal society. Following the ups and downs of four leading aristocratic families, this study guide provides summaries and commentaries for each chapter within this wide-sweeping eighteenth-century novel. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Introduction to and historical background on the novel Background on the authors Character list and selected genealogies Critical essays on the significance and limitations of the novel Suggested... more...

  • Tuvaluanby Niko Besnier

    Routledge 1999; US$ 325.00

    The first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. more...