The book sheds light on the fascinating evolution of contact-induced grammatical features in Chinese syntax.
The book also reports that unit plurality can be expressed by reduplicative classifiers in the language.
The Book of Songs is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until this was published in 1937 it had not been translated into English since the middle of nineteenth century, when sinology was still in its infancy.
Andy Kirkpatrick and and Zhichang Xu offer a response to the argument that Chinese students’ academic writing in English is influenced by “culturally nuanced rhetorical baggage that is uniquely Chinese and hard to eradicate.” Noting ...
This book has been prepared in an effort to address the pressing need for a common language, i.e. international standard terminology and technical terms to be used in traditional medicine....
The Chinese city of Yangzhou has been of great cultural significance for many centuries, despite its destruction by invaders in the 17th and 19th centuries.
This book focuses on the use of guanxi (Chinese personal connections) in everyday urban life: in particular, how and why people develop different types of social capital in their guanxi networks and the role of guanxi in school choice.
research interests are vernacular literature of the Ming period, Chinese prosimetric literature, and women's oral culture ... His publications include P'i Jih-hsiu (1979), The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature (1986, ...
The Hsin dynasty also lasted about as long as the Ch'in dynasty before the Han dynasty was restored by Liu Hsiu, Emperor Kuang-wu, in A.D. 25. THE CHARACTER o1= HAN ART The Han dynasty was the last period in Chinese history before art ...
At the time , Yin was in poor health , so Wei of the Di branch was chosen by lot to be conscripted . The whole lineage appreciated his righteous actions , so they gave him a reward as encouragement . After he entered the army , on his ...