Chinese Stories for Language Learners
Chinese Stories for Language Learners
The Art of War for Language Learners
Get ready to uncover the mysteries of Chinese language and culture with Sun Tzu's renowned masterpiece, The Art of War for Language Learners. This all-encompassing book not only provides a contemporary approach to Chinese language learning but also delivers invaluable insights and timeless wisdom from China's most celebrated classic. This book contains a total of 13 chapters with expanded learning content, written and translated purposely for modern Chinese language learners. Each chapter is structured to guide and assist your learning whilst making your learning journey entertaining and memorable. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced learner, this book offers two versions of the text to cater to your language proficiency level. Learn and enjoy with: * Bilingual version with Simplified Chinese, pinyin and English * Chinese-only version of the text for self-assessment * Key Vocabulary list to help you to learn and review Interactive discussions to help you to reflect *
Chinese Stories for Language Learners
Chinese Stories for Language Learners
Immaculate Conception
A superb work of fiction.-New York Times Book Review What if you could enter the mind of the person you love the most?Enka meets Mathilde in art school and is instantly drawn to her. Mathilde makes art that feels truly original, and Enka-trying hard to prove herself in this fiercely competitive world-pours everything into their friendship. But when Mathilde's fame and success cause her to begin drifting away, Enka becomes desperate to keep her close. Enter SCAFFOLD. Purported to enhance empathy, this cutting-edge technology could allow Enka to inhabit Mathilde's mind and access her memories, artistic inspirations, and deep-seated trauma. Undergoing this procedure would link Enka and Mathilde forever. But at what cost? Blisteringly smart, thought-provoking, and shocking, Immaculate Conception offers us a portrait of close friendship-achingly tender and twisted-that captures the tenuous line between love and possession that will haunt you long after you turn the final page.
Immaculate Conception
'Huang's Immaculate Conception is unlike anything else I've read this year... a heartfelt love letter to art, and a superb work of fiction' New York Times A portrait of companionship achingly tender and twisted that captures the tenuous line betwe...
Natural Beauty
'A meditation on how horror can lurk beneath the surface of even the most poreless skin' New York Times Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Bisexual Novel 2024 A WIRED Best Book of 2023 An Audible Best Horror Book of 2023 For fans of The ...
Natural Beauty
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents--also talented musicians--who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But when an accident leaves her parents debilitated, she abandons her future for a job at a high-end beauty and wellness store in New York City. Holistik is known for its remarkable products and procedures--from remoras that suck out cheap Botox to eyelash extensions made of spider silk--and her new job affords her entry into a world of privilege and gives her a long-awaited sense of belonging. She becomes transfixed by Helen, the niece of Holistik's charismatic owner, and the two strike up a friendship that hazily veers into more. All the while, our narrator is plied with products that slim her thighs, smooth her skin,
Mobile Connection
Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is used for "real time¿ coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens "text¿ to each other day and night. The mobile p...
The River, the Plain, and the State
On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a¿delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean.¿This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted f...
Roman Painting
This book, first published in 1991, is a general history of Roman painting written specifically for English-language readers. Large numbers of wall-paintings have survived from the Roman world, and particularly from Rome itself and from the cities...
Fashion in Multiple Chinas
Fashion in Multiple Chinas
Bliss Montage
Bliss Montage
Across Meridians
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashit...
Franz Liszt Och 1800-talets Konstmusik
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) är centralfiguren i denna del av Jan Lings serie om den europeiska musikhistorien. Vi får möta Liszt i många olika roller: som underbarn, pianist, tonsättare, dirigent, musikskribent. Vi möter även många av hans kolleger, däribland Hector Berlioz, vars Symphonie fantastique väckte den unge Liszts intresse för beskrivande musik. Också Frédéric Chopin finner vi i kretsen av musikvänner, liksom den blivande svärsonen Richard Wagner.Några kvinnor kom att få stort inflytande på Liszt: grevinnan Marie d'Agoult, som lade grunden för hans kulturella bildning, prinsessan Caroline von Wittgenstein som fick honom att överge en internationell pianokarriär för komponerandet samt författarinnan George Sand, vilken stod honom nära som konstnärlig förebild och diskussionspartner.Pianots okrönte mästare Liszt var en stor humanist, men med ett stort ego och en fåfänga av ansenliga mått. Virtuos, tonsättare, pedagog - Liszt är en symbol för den epok under 1800-talet, då klaveret kom att inta en central plats i den borgerliga musikkulturen.Boken är rikt illustrerad och innehåller musikexempel som även musikamatören bör kunna framföra på klaviaturen.Jan Ling är professor emeritus i musikvetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet. Han verkar som musikhistoriker, pedagog, musiksociolog och folkmusikforskare.Utgiven i samarbete med Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien.
A History of European Folk Music
A study of dynamic and changing forms of folk music from nations and cultures across Europe: genre, instruments, performance.
Reconstruction of Space and Time
One of the most significant and obvious examples of how mobile communication influences our understanding of time and space is how we coordinate with one another. Mobile communication enables us to call specific individuals, not general places. Re...
Coding Theory
Coding Theory
Konsten att lämna en psykopat
Du är inte ensam. Det finns hjälp att få. Det är bara att ta första steget. När Ida träffar Vlad blir hon upp över öronen förälskad. Utåt sett lever de ett perfekt liv: de gifter sig, skaffar barn och bygger upp en stabil tillvaro i Sverige. Men b...
Severance
Severance
Severance
Severance
Slapping the Table in Amazement
Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Pai'an jingqi by Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), originally published in 1628. The forty lively stories gathered here present a broad picture of traditi...
Europas Musikhistoria. - 1730
Vad tänker man på när man hör ordet "musikhistoria"? Årtal, tonsättarnamn, opusnummer? Sådana fakta är nödvändiga för att sortera det märkliga musikliv som flödat genom den europeiska kulturen, men i denna bok möter oss även själva flödet av brusande musik, spännande händelser och en musikalisk kulturhistoria rikt illustrerad med bilder och citat ur poesi och prosa. Författaren Jan Ling, känd för sina levande framställningar om bland annat svensk folkmusik och sina fascinerande föreläsningar i skilda musikämnen, lägger här fram en musikhistoria där alla samhällsklassers musik passerar revy. I mötet mellan musik från olika länder och tider söker Jan Ling förklaringen till Europas musikhistoria.
Mandarin Chinese Writing Practice Book
This beautiful notebook of blank writing templates is perfect for practicing your written Chinese! Each double page spread has squared paper on the right-hand side for practicing formation of the Chinese characters, and lined paper on the left-han...
Manipulating Globalization
The era of globalization saw China emerge as the world's manufacturing titan. However, the "made in China" model-with its reliance on cheap labor and thin profits-has begun to wane. Beginning in the 2000s, the Chinese state shifted from ...
Bliss Montage: Stories
A National Indie Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize A Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Houston Chronicle, Roxane Gay's The Audacity, Mashable, Polygon, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice 'Uncanny and haunting . . . Genius.' --Michele Filgate, The Washington Post 'Dazzling.' --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything--if you