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Niubi!
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 13.00How to talk dirty and influence people-in Chinese! You can study Chinese for years, but do you really know how to talk like a native speaker? The next book in Plume's foreign language slang series, Niubi! will make sure you learn all the colorful vernacular words and phrases used by Chinese people of all ages in a variety of situations, including... more...
Remapping the Past
BRILL 2008; US$ 144.00Investigates how writers of Deng Xiaoping's reform era undermined the grand narrative of official history. This book features fictions of history by Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors. It is organized in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography. It covers the themes of memory, language, food, sex, and violence in historical writing. more...
A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature
BRILL 2007; US$ 71.00Covers the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, primarily focusing on fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing. more...
Essential Analects
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 8.95The Essential Analects offers a representative selection from Edward Slingerland's acclaimed translation of the full work, including passages covering all major themes. An appendix of selected traditional commentaries keyed to each passage provides access to the text and to its reception and interpretation. Also included are a glossary of terms... more...
Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 150.00This book presents an analysis of Chinese grammar from a systemic functional perspective. Its main focus is the clausal grammar of Chinese, and Dr Li provides a thorough analysis of Chinese clauses according to their constituent parts. However, uniquely, the second half of the book extends this examination into an analysis of Chinese discourse and... more...
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 17.00Unmatched in scope and literary quality, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations?many new and exclusive to the book?by an array of distinguished translators. Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from the Book of Songs... more...
Get Talking Chinese
Dorling Kindersley 2007; US$ 14.99This compact guide provides a fun and easy way to get a handle on all aspects of Mandarin Chinese?reading, writing, speaking, and listening?as well as a look at the fantasticculture of China. Teaches readers how to identify and pronounce Chinese characters Culture pages reveal amazing facts about modern China Includes 200 characters that most books... more...
Embracing the Lie
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 155.00This volume is the first serious attempt to reconstruct Ding Ling's biography during the last few decades of her life. Most Westerners know her as a progressive woman writer who became famous during the May 4 Movement, championed its values in Yan'an and was criticized in the rectification campaigns that followed. Few know about her life afterward... more...
Colloquial Cantonese 2nd edition
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 31.95COLLOQUIAL CANTONESE is easy to use and completely up to date! Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Cantonese. No prior knowledge of the language is required. What makes COLLOQUIAL CANTONESE your best choice in personal language learning?... more...
The Analects of Confucius
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99The Analects, also known as the Analects of Confucius, are a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples, as well as the discussions they held. The Chinese title literally means "discussion over [Confucius'] words."Written during the Spring and Autumn Period through the Warring... more...









