Sophie's Revenge stars international sensation, Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Rush Hour 2 and Memoirs of a Geisha). Dumped by her fiance just two months before their wedding, comic strip writer Sophie hatches an elaborate plan to get her Jeff back and punish the movie star, Joanna, who seduced him away. She finds herself a partner, Gordon, an ex-lover of Joanna's. The two start on a comic adventure full of laughs and tears, aided by Sophie's two best friends, Lucy and Lily. At the eve of her success, Sophie suddenly realizes that she has been so focused on revenge that she has not heard her own change of heart.
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Leveraging his success as a translator of foreign books, Lin Shu quickly became an authority on traditional Chinese culture who upheld the classical language as a cornerstone of Chinese national identity. Eventually, younger intellectuals--who had grown up reading his translations--turned on Lin Shu and tarred him as a symbol of backward conservatism. Ultimately, Lin's defeat and downfall became just as significant as his rise to fame in defining the work of the intellectual in modern China.
\"This detailed study is a long overdue biographical treatment of one of the most important translators in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China. Rather than adhering to the traditional mode of biography, Michael Hill provides a multifaceted perspective on Lin Shu's career as a barometer of the cultural and political change of early modern China. As such, Lin Shu, Inc. offers a great service to the field of modern Chinese literature, where treatments of Lin Shu and his cohort remain sporadic or outdated.\" --Jing Tsu, author of Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937
Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, is an essential read for the intermediate and advanced student of Chinese. The New Year's Sacrifice is one of Lu Xun's best works from his second collection of short stories, Wondering.
Due to its complex writing system, Chinese is one of the most difficult languages in the world. Full literacy of Chinese requires a working knowledge of three to four thousand Chinese characters and breaking into reading Chinese literature is a daunting task. Capturing Chinese: Lu Xun's The New Year's Sacrifice presents one of the best works of modern Chinese literature as a comprehensive tool to help students of Chinese read Chinese literature in its original form.
Footnotes highlight the more difficult vocabulary and pinyin is provided for the entire text. There is no need to constantly consult a dictionary or to look up difficult characters by radical. Historical events, people, and places are explained throughout and illustrations recreate the scenes. The text used in this book is in simplified characters. An English translation of the story is included and helps readers gain a full understanding of the story.
* Full story unabridged in simplified Chinese 

* Pinyin for the entire text 

* Definitions for difficult vocabulary 

* Historical explanations and summaries 

* English translation 

* Illustrations throughout 

* Free MP3s read by two native speakers (now available for download!)
Free audio files of Lu Xun's The New Year's Sacrifice are also included with the purchase of this book and are available for download from the publisher's website, CapturingChinese.com. The audio files include both a woman and male speaker.
In his latest novel, Mo Yan—arguably China’s most important contemporary literary voice—recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum. In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple revolutions and an ideological earthquake, this epic novel is first and foremost about women, with the female body serving as the book’s central metaphor. The protagonist, Mother, is born in 1900 and married at seventeen into the Shangguan family. She has nine children, only one of whom is a boy—the narrator of the book. A spoiled and ineffectual child, he stands in stark contrast to his eight strong and forceful female siblings.
Mother, a survivor, is the quintessential strong woman who risks her life to save several of her children and grandchildren. The writing is picturesque, bawdy, shocking, and imaginative. The structure draws on the essentials of classical Chinese formalism and injects them with extraordinarily raw and surprising prose. Each of the seven chapters represents a different time period, from the end of the Qing dynasty up through the Japanese invasion in the 1930s, the civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao years. Now in a beautifully bound collectors edition, this stunning novel is Mo Yan’s searing vision of twentieth-century China.
AUTH: BOSTON UNIVERSITY. TRANSLATIONS OF CHINESE TEXTS W/ NOTES, ETC. DIST. BY U. HAWAI'I PRESS. \"People today live longer than in any time in history and they want to stay young and active for many years to come. The Chinese have successfully practiced longevity techniques for millennia, working with process-oriented and energy-based methods. Their literature is full of essential insights and practical guidelines to longer, healthier, and happier lives. A Source Book in Chinese Longevity is the first comprehensive collection of traditional longevity sources in English translation. Arranged chronologically, it presents materials from ancient medical manuscripts through medieval manuals and Daoist scriptures to late imperial works that specifically focus on women. Well organized and illustrated, it provides easy access to a treasure trove of information, fascinating to scholars, practitioners, and lay readers alike.\"
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The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state.
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\nFor the most part, Chinese is really two languages - a written one and a spoken one. One really cannot \"sound out\" written Chinese Characters, like they can with English. Most books for travelers to China dwell on the spoken language. This is actually a very good idea, because it helps you communicate and get around. But this book is different and fun, because it concentrates on Chinese characters which are beautiful and interesting.
\nI lived in the city of Shenyang, China for almost a year and a half. I dealt with a lot of Chinese people and Westerners that had been there for varying lengths of time. The Westerners had varying levels of oral Chinese language skills, but it was very rare for me to find a Westerner who knew how to read Chinese. The Westerners that I knew who could read Chinese were for the most part long time scholors on the topic or they learned it from their Chinese relatives.
\nI read this book, and learned most of the characters in it. I could not even come close to reading a magazine or newspaper, even those for children. But, I knew more Chinese characters than 95% of the Westerners that I knew in China. Most of these foreigners would be impressed when I could read the little I did. For most of the Chinese people I met, I was the only Westerner that they ever met who could read even a few characters. I'd figure a sign out, and they could not believe it. This skill was a great conversation topic, and I soon learned several other characters in the conversations that I had with the locals.
\nFor the most part, this book is not required reading for someone who travels to China. In places where a lot of Westerners travel, many signs are in English, or pin-yin, or \"Chinglish\" (poor translations from Chinese to English.) But when I went to places less traveled, I can tell you that it was nice to be able to read the sign on the restroom door so I did not get into an embarrassing situation. (I had plenty of other embarrassing experiences without going into the wrong public toilet.)
\nI highly recommend the book. Have fun!
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Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, is an essential read for the intermediate and advanced student of Chinese. Nahan is his first collection of short stories and includes some of his most famous short stories. The most famous works include: A Madman's Diary, Kong Yiji, Medicine, Hometown, A Passing Storm, and A Village Opera.
Due to its complex writing system, Chinese is one of the most difficult languages in the world. Full literacy of Chinese requires a working knowledge of three to four thousand Chinese characters and breaking into reading Chinese literature is a daunting task.
Capturing Chinese Short Stories from Lu Xun's Nahan is a comprehensive tool to help students of Chinese read Chinese literature in its original form. Footnotes highlight the more difficult vocabulary and pinyin is provided for the entire text. There is no need to constantly consult a dictionary or look up difficult characters by radical. Historical events, people and places are explained throughout and illustrations recreate the scenes.
* Full stories unabridged in simplified Chinese
* Pinyin for the entire text
* Definitions for difficult vocabulary
* Historical explanations and summaries
* Illustrations throughout
* Free MP3s read by two native speakers
Please note, the text is in simplified Chinese characters.
The following stories are included:
* Nahan Preface
* Diary of a Madman
* Kong Yiji
* Medicine
* Tomorrow
* A Small Incident
* A Story About Hair
* A Passing Storm
* Hometown
* Dragonboat Festival
* The White Light
* A Comedy of Ducks
* Some Rabbits and a Cat
* Village Opera
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