Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Dreaming in Chinese Dreaming in Chinese Deborah Fallows Fallows unravels Chinese culture by explaining the intricacies and subtleties of Mandarin, devoting each chapter to a particular linguistic quirk. OL16087030W
Would You Rather? Would You Rather? John Burningham A series of comical choices such as, "Would you rather eat spider stew or slug dumplings or mashed worms?" ends with an invitation to bedtime. OL1805961W
English-Chinese (pinyin) pocket dictionary = English-Chinese (pinyin) pocket dictionary = Liang Wenxuan,Qian Suwen,Guo Yuling This dictionary "has been specially prepared for English speakers who study Chinese." In each entry the Chinese characters are followed by pinyin, the Chinese phonetic transcription. OL19292726W
Chu shi yi hou Chu shi yi hou Dehua Yang,Yuehua Liu,Chengzhi Chu One winter night, a teacher was on her way home. Suddenly she fell down from her bicycle in front of a car. The driver stopped his car right away and brought the teacher to a hospital nearby. "The pa… OL19663550W
Ru guo mei you ni Ru guo mei you ni Yuehua Liu,Chengzhi Chu,Shaoling Zhao Xiaoming is a talented pickpocket, but steals only from the wealthy. He never harms the poor, and doesn't allow other thieves to victimize them either. When college student Xia Yu loses her purse at … OL19664277W
Ma ma he er zi Ma ma he er zi Lingshu Wang,Yuehua Liu,Chengzhi Chu A teenage boy runs away from home, leaving his mother devestated. She never leaves home--never goes out with friends, eats out, or travels. Years pass, and then one day, the son returns to find his m… OL19668439W
Yue du cheng yu Yue du cheng yu Hong Yi A collection of Chinese idioms with the detailed stories of the idioms. OL24310225W
Han yu ci hui jiao xue Han yu ci hui jiao xue Yiling Wan Ben shu shi shi yong Han yu jiao shi pei xun xi lie zhi yi, xi tong di jie shao le Han yu ci hui, ci yi, ci yu ci zhi jian dne guan xi, shu yu, ci hui yu wen hua deng Han yu ci hui de ji ben zhi shi,… OL24533166W
Nan bu dao wo! Nan bu dao wo! Debei Yu Ben shu yong tong hua dui hai zi jin xing qing xu jiao yu he pin ge pei yang. Tong hua yun yu zhe ren sheng de zhen qing zhi li, Jiao hui hai zi ying dui he hua jie wei ji ju mian. OL26175386W
Tian liang hao ge qiu Tian liang hao ge qiu Shuman Wang Learn the words and terms of chinese language by reading chinese poetry. OL27292577W
Hou zhua Hou zhua W. W. Jacobs Mr and Mrs Zhang live with their grown son Guisheng who works at a factory. One day and old friend of Mr Zhang comes to visit the family after having spent years travelling in the mysterious hills of… OL27716612W
Beijia he ta de huo ban men Beijia he ta de huo ban men Chunhua Zheng Beijia makes new friends at daycare center. OL29232065W
Alfie gets in first Alfie gets in first Shirley Hughes Alfie accidentally locks his mother and baby sister Annie Rose outside and can't reach the latch to let them in. Soon the whole neighborhood is involved in getting the door open. OL59228W
The Morphology of Chinese The Morphology of Chinese Jerome L. Packard This ground-breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese 'doesn't have words' but instead 'has characters'. Jerome Packard's book provides a comprehensive discussion of the linguistic and co… OL8306153W