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| Title: | Author: | Description: |
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| An Advanced Chinese Reader | Lam, Adam and Zhang, Qiao | A one-year reading course in Chinese, based on 22 texts and associated exercises, this book serves as a textbook for advanced learners. The texts describe cultural characteristics, in China and elsewhere, in traditional and simplified characters and English. |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £13.50 | ||
| Advanced Reader of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories: Reflections on Humanity | Wang, Y. & Reed, Carrie E. (eds.) | 10 post-1990 short stories by such prominent writers as Su Tong and Yu Hua. Includes vocabulary lists, grammar examples and questions for discussion. Can be used as a text in language or literature courses or independently. Has large, clear print which makes reading the characters easy. |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £21.50 | ||
| Beginning Chinese Reader | DeFrancis, J. | Contains reading exercises, covering both regular and simplified characters. |
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| Bilingual series on modern Chinese literature | A series of works by major Chinese authors in parallel text, Chinese & English. | |
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| Da Vinci code (in Chinese) | Brown, D. | |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £7.95 | ||
| Elementary Chinese readers | Bian, Xiezhu | This new edition of has been substantially revised by the authors in order to incorporate new material that is based on recent developments in linguistic theory and teaching methofds. The textbooks have been condensed from the original five volumes into four. More emphasis is now put on practical language needed in daily communication. Also, the material has been updated to reflect current Chinese life. |
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| The Lady in the painting | Wang, Fred Fang-yu & Ross | Well-known Chinese folktale retold with Yale and Pinyin romanization and traditional characters within the limits of an elementary 300 character vocabulary. Ideal for beginners. Includes CD-ROM. Due September 2007. |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £18.50 | ||
| The lady in the painting: A basic Chinese reader, expanded edition, simplified characters | This is the full-length story written in Chinese for low-intermediate level learners of Chinese as a foreign language. The CD-Rom provides extensive listening practice by way of sentence-length and paragraph-length. | |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £18.50 | ||
| Matt's Zinnia | Lau, Lucia | In Mandarin Chinese with transliteration and translation. Illustrated book for adult beginners or young learners. With CD of text spoken in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English. |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £7.99 | ||
| Popular Traditions and Customs of Chinese New Year | Parallel text reader exploring the traditions of Chinese New Year. | |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £6.99 | ||
| Practical Chinese Readers | An extensive course focusing on everyday expressions. Each lesson is supplemented with a wide and varied selection of exercises. | |
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| Reading Chinese Newspapers: Tactics and skills | Mickel, Stanley | Provides a wide range of opportunities for students to learn the skills and tactics needed to become successful readers of modern Chinese prose. Presents tasks to encourage skimming, scanning, prediction, guessing and reading for detail. |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £19.50 | ||
| Readings from Chinese Writers vol I | ||
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £7.95 | ||
| Readings from Chinese Writers vol. II | ||
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £7.95 | ||
| Streetlife China | Dutton, M. | This book uses pieces from newspapers, government documents, academic writing and interviews to build a vivid picture of everyday life in China. |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £18.99 | ||
| Talking of Chinese culture | Xiaolu, W. | A textbook for advanced students covering most aspects of modern Chinese culture. The text is in Mandarin only. |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £8.95 | ||
| A trip to China: Intermediate reader of modern Chinese | Chou, C.-P. | A Trip to China is a two-volume textbook for students who have studied one year of Chinese. |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £32.95 | ||
| The uninvited | Yan, Geling | In English. The tale of an unemployed factory worker whose life takes a twist as he discovers that by posing as a journalist, he can eat for free at State-sponsored banquets. Little does he know that this will lead him deep into corruption and the murky underworld of contemporary China. |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £4.90 | ||
| Yeh-Hsien, a Chinese Cinderella | Casy, Dawn (retold by) & Holland, Richard (illus.) | Bilingual Chinese/English. Iillustrated story book for ages 5-9.Believed to be the original telling of Cinderella; her only friend is a red fish killed by her stepmother, but its bones are magical and grant Yeh-Hsien her wish to go the village festival where she loses her slipper… |
| Chinese: Mandarin: Readers Price: £7.50 | ||
