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"After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire, with literacy reserved for the elite few. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China's greatest and most daunting challenge was a linguistic one. Just as important as China's technological and industrial advances and political maneuvers was the century-long fight to make the Chinese language-with its many dialects...
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"Reading & Writing Chinese places at your fingertips the essential 1,725 Chinese characters' up-to-date definitions, derivations, pronunciations, and examples of correct usage by means of cleverly condensed grids. This guide also focuses on Pinyin, which is the official system to transcribe Hanzi, Chinese characters, into Latin script, now universally used in mainland China and Singapore. Traditional characters (still used in Taiwan and Hong Kong)...
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Even though their dates of origin are millennia apart, the languages of Chinese and emoji share similarities that the average smartphone user might find surprising. These "hanmoji" parallels offer an exciting new way to learn Chinese--and a fascinating window into the evolution of Chinese Han characters. Packed with fun illustrations and engaging descriptions, The Hanmoji Handbook brings to life the ongoing dialogue between the visual elements of...
8) At the beach
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A mother amuses her young son at the beach by drawing in the sand Chinese characters, many of which resemble the objects they stand for.
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Includes "standard hanyu pinyin romanizations, compounds and phrases for vocabulary building, step-by-step stroke order guides, special practice boxes with grid lines, and lots of extra practice sheets." Also features "foundation characters for the HSK A level language proficiency test, over 500 words and phrases containing the basic characters, and English definitions."--Cover.
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Scope and content: Writings by George B. Powell, in the form of photocopied typescripts, with some simple illustrations, consisting of essays, poetry, proverbs, timelines, short stories, and a variety of other writings. Most works are between 10 and 25 pages long, although a few are longer or shorter. Although the majority of his works relate to world history, his works also include a few items written for children, including an alphabet song and...