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A Gateway to Classical Chinese
Beijing Publishing House · 2013
A Gateway to Classical Chinese is a work by Zhang Zhongxing, first published in 1984. The book is a primer for classical Chinese and was written for C…
The Story of English
Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2005
This book is the companion illustrated volume to the nine-part BBC television documentary The Story of English, co-written by Robert McCrum, Robert Ma…
A Concise Latin Course
The Commercial Press · 2010
A Concise Latin Course is an introductory Latin textbook written by the Austrian classical philologist and sinologist Leopold Leeb for Chinese-speakin…
A History of Language
CITIC Press · 2023
This book is the magnum opus of Steven Roger Fischer, a researcher of New Zealand language history and ancient writing systems. Originally titled A Hi…
Kangxi Dictionary (Punctuated and Collated Edition)
Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House · 2007
The Kangxi Dictionary was completed in the fifty-fifth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty (1716). Compiled by imperial order under the gener…
The Silverfish Explains Characters
Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024
The Silverfish Explains Characters is the fruit of decades of research on Chinese characters by the late writer, poet, and scholar Liu Shahe. "Silverf…
Shuowen Jiezi (Five Volumes: Complete Text, Full Annotation, Full Translation)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2018
Shuowen Jiezi is a dictionary compiled by the Eastern Han scholar Xu Shen. It is the first dictionary in the history of the Chinese language to be arr…
A Handbook for Punctuation under the New National Standard
Zhonghua Book Company · 2014
This book is a revised and expanded edition based on The Art of Punctuation, published by Zhonghua Book Company in 2006. Its contents have been correc…
A Cultural History of China Through Its Dialects
海峡书局 · 2022
A Cultural History of China Through Its Dialects is a boxed set of Zheng Zining's trilogy exploring the Chinese language, comprising South and North T…
A General Introduction to the Shuowen Jiezi
Zhonghua Book Company · 2023
A General Introduction to the Shuowen Jiezi is the magnum opus on the Shuowen by the philologist Lu Zongda (1905–1988). It grew out of the lecture not…
Wisdom of Life in Idioms: Life Lessons from Chinese Idioms
China Textile & Apparel Press · 2015
This is a book that frees idioms from the recitation list. It is not content with dictionary-style definitions, nor does it stop at telling an ancient…
New Words, Translated in Conversation
Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press · 2014
Bian Kan Bian Yi Xin Xin Ci is a collection of essays on language and culture by Chen Dezhang, a professor at the School of English and International …
A History of the Chinese Language
China International Broadcasting Publishing House · 2010
The history of Chinese sounds like a hard course requiring grounding in phonology and exegesis, but this book lowers the threshold considerably. Autho…
The Hundred Surnames
Zhonghua Book Company · 2016
The Hundred Surnames is a rhymed primer compiled in the early Northern Song dynasty. Its author is unknown; tradition attributes it to a scholar of Qi…
The History of Words: A Ramble Through English Etymology
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021
This is an English etymology reader for general readers by the British lexicographer Martin H. Manser, originally titled Midwives, Marathons and Mumbo…
Chinese Character Dictation Handbook
Dolphin Books · 2014
The Chinese Character Dictation Handbook is a series of Chinese character dictation training books edited by Fang Zhenyu and published by Dolphin Book…
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2019
The Mother Tongue is a popular language book by Bill Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, originally titled The Mother Tongue: Engl…
The Knowledge and Application of Exegesis
Zhonghua Book Company · 2018
The Knowledge and Application of Exegesis is a collection of essays on exegesis by the contemporary exegete Lu Zongda and his students Wang Ning and S…
Erya
Zhonghua Book Company · 2014
The Erya is the earliest extant Chinese monograph explaining word meanings and the first dictionary arranged by semantic categories; from the "Treatis…
Translation Studies
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2018
Translation Studies is a classic treatise on English-to-Chinese translation by the essayist and translator Si Guo (born Cai Zhuotang, 1918–2004). Firs…