Zurich: Dot Line Curve, 2020. First Edition. Board book. A simple introduction to traditional Chinese writing Learn through play with the basic building blocks of Chinese writing — one colourful stroke at a time. A Touch & Trace Book 1) For Learning and Play Thick board book format..... More
London: BBC Books, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1995. Second Printing. Softcover. More
Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press / Sinolingua, 2001. Second Edition. Softcover. More
London: Usborne Publishing, 1980. Paperback (Outsized). More
Editions Mille et une Nuit, 1994. Clab. Paperback. More
London: BBC Languages, 2004. New Edition. Softcover. More
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. First Edition. Paperback (Outsized). Contemporary Japanese Workbook, Volume 2 was created as a supplementary material for Contemporary Japanese: An Introductory Textbook for College Students. A workbook which is best used for reviewing and reinforcing the concepts and learning materials introduced in the textbook, it is also..... More
Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, Ltd, 1973. Reprint. Softcover. More
London: The English Universities Press Ltd, 1959. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Teach Yourself Books series. More
New Haven: Far Eastern Publications / Yale University Press, 1970. First Edition, Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Rare. A vintage Chinese language study guide for technical/scientific applications. More
London: Penguin Books, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. 'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass..... More
New York: East Asia Program/ Cornell University, 2013. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. This is a partial translation of one of the most important texts produced by Motoori Norinaga. It covers a wide range of Norinaga's thought and provides a lens onto his philological methodology, as well as how he viewed..... More
Australia: Lonely Planet, 1991. Second Edition. Softcover. More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1965. Third Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: East Asia Program/ Cornell University, 1997. Introduced, translated and annotated by Ann Webmeyer, preface by Naoki Sakai. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) believed that the intersection of time, language, meaning, and culture in the Kojiki had the power ro reveal the voice of archaic Japan. Japan's..... More
London: Bodley Head, 2008. Anthony Arnove (ed.). Twelfth Printing. Trade Paperback. Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time, and as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States. The Essential..... More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992. First edition, reprint. Softcover. Michigan Monogram in Chinese Studies, No. 30. This translation was begun in 1968 as research in an area of personal interest of the author. As a Chinese with an undergraduate major in Western Literature and..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2019. Sushan Chan (cover design). First Edition. Paperback. This is a fascinating, insightful collection of essays by some of the world’s most renowned China experts, who share personal recollections of their time in China—often beginning in the 1970s, when foreigners were..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Jiom McLean. First Edition. Hardcover. More
London: Usborne Publishing, 1989. Reprint. Paperback (Outsized). More
Oxford: Heinemann English Language Teaching, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. This is a Beginner Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The..... More
Hawthorn: Lonely Planet Publications, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. A useful guide for travellers in north India or Pakistan with both Hindi and Urdu vocabularies. More
Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2011. Heng Kim Song (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. The Complete Eh, Goondu! combines in one volume two of Singapore’s best-selling humour titles Eh, Goondu! and Lagi Goondu. Eh, Goondu published in 1982 was the first book on Singlish. It compiled in print a collection of local patois..... More
New World Press, 2002. Softcover. This fascinating book uses cartoons by Tan Huay Peng to illustrate the origins and development of Chinese characters. The historical background of the script is accompanied by information on stroke types, stroke sequence and Hanyu Pinyin pronunciation. Days, months and numbers in Chinese are also..... More
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