This thoroughly revised edition not only provides students essential lessons for advancing their Chinese language skills, but also introduces important aspects of contemporary Chinese society and culture.

This handbook draws attention to the diversity of scholarship on translation in East Asia, and its relevance to a variety of established and emerging fields.

This book offers students all the necessary tools to read, understand, and analyse Classical Chinese texts, including descriptions of syntactic features, introductions to historical and cultural topics, and selected readings from classical ...

This adaptation of what is recognized today as the oldest Mongolian text (written two decades after Chingis Khan's death) tells the Mongols' own version of the origin of their nation, the life of C

By arranging frequently used characters under the phonetic element they have in common, rather than only under their radical, the Dictionary encourages the student to link characters according to their phonetic.

Fables reflect traditional culture, virtue and value.

The pioneering memory technique taught in this book removes the major obstacle to learning modern Mandarin Chinese: how to remember the meanings of more than 2,000 of the most common of traditional Chinese characters--enough to read more ...

Classical Chinese calligraphy is a popular and valuable art form.

This is the first genuine etymological dictionary of Old Chinese written in any language.

The book describes cultural idiosyncrasies in language use as well as gives discoursal strategies for forming sustained conversations.