The first detailed examination of the link between the "Chinese question" and the "Negro problem" in nineteenth-century America, this work forcefully... and convincingly demonstrates that the anti-Chinese sentiment that led up to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is inseparable from the racial double standards applied by mainstream white society toward white and nonwhite groups during the same period. Najia Aarim-Heriot highlights striking similarities in the ways the Chinese and African American populations were disenfranchised during the mid-1800s, including nearly identical negative stereotypes, shrill rhetoric, and crippling exclusionary laws.

This is a reader written especially for learners of intermediate level Chinese and above. It contains forty articles on topics such as Chinese language,... culture, history, society, folklore, holidays, geography. Grammatical notes and exercises are included after each article and two appendices are available for easy reference.

From China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong to Singapore and Hollywood, from martial arts films of the early twentieth century to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon at... the turn of the twenty-first century, Chinese-language films have opened new doors to the imaging and construction of national and ethnic identity. This volume, the most comprehensive work to date on Chinese film, explores the manifold dimensions of the subject and highlights areas overlooked in previous studies. In the essays in this collection leading scholars take up issues and topics covering the entire range of Chinese cinema. Their cross-cultural engagements with individual films, accomplished with an acute sense of chronology and history, tackle questions of issues related to historiography, poetics, aesthetics, genres, and directorial styles; at the same time, they address the economics of film production and consumption as well as the cultural politics of globalization, identity, subjectivity, nationality, citizenship, and gender formation as embodied in filmic texts. They offer insightful, detailed analyses of films by such internationally renowned directors as Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsia-hsien, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yuan, Jia Zhangke, Tsai Ming-liang, Lin Cheng-sheng, Jiang Wen, Ann Hui, Sylvia Chang, Wu Nianzhen, Eric Koo, and others. Chinese-Language Film makes a significant contribution to international film studies. It will become required reading for all those, whether student, specialist, or general reader, who are interested in Chinese cinema and international film culture or concerned with questions of nationalism, transnationalism, globalization, and multiculturalism.

This is Vol. 1 of a two-volume textbook set with emphasis on pattern drills as part of a communicative approach to learning Chinese. There are 40... lessons in the set, with vocabulary, examples, drills, grammar and cultural notes. Book 2 contains a comprehensive vocabulary list for both books. Series Introduction: This set of teaching material, apart from translating, annotating and explaining the texts, tries also to compare and contrast the Chinese language with the learners' native language in terms of phonetic system, grammar structure, communicative conventions and national and cultural background. Learners are helped not only to correctly understand and accept the rules and conventions that contrast sharply with those in their native language; they are also helped to differentiate and master those more subtle points which do not contrast sharply but must never be neglected or confused. All Volumes in the Set: V. 1, Order No. 15034, ISBN: 7800523098 Tapes for V. 1, Order No. 15034-T, ISBN: 7800523098-0 V. 2, Order No. 15035, ISBN: 7800523101 Tapes for V. 2, Order No. 15035-T, ISBN: 7800523101-0

A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his... four Chinese classmatesAs a twenty-year-old exchange student from Stanford University, John Pomfret spent a year at Nanjing University in China. His fellow classmates were among those who survived the twin tragedies of Mao’s rule—the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution—and whose success in government and private industry today are shaping China’s future. Pomfret went on to a career in journalism, spending the bulk of his time in China. After attending the twentieth reunion of his class, he decided to reacquaint himself with some of his classmates. Chinese Lessons is their story and his own.Beginning with Pomfret’s first days in China, Chinese Lessons takes us back to the often torturous paths that brought together the Nanjing University History Class of 1982. One classmate’s father was killed during the Cultural Revolution for the crime of being an intellectual; another classmate labored in the fields for years rather than agree to a Party-arranged marriage; a third was forced to publicly denounce and humiliate her father. As we watch Pomfret and his classmates begin to make their lives as adults, we see as never before the human cost and triumph of China’s transition from near-feudal communism to first-world capitalism.

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Chinese Link, 2e provides a practical, learner-centered and enjoyable language and cultural learning experience for beginning students of Chinese, as... well as an efficient and comprehensive teaching resource for instructors.   This best-selling text takes care to introduce and explain grammar points clearly and systematically, yet not in a fashion that would be overwhelming to beginners. In keeping with the communicative focus of the text, grammar points are related to communicative task-oriented content. The textbook presents both traditional (complex) and simplified versions of Chinese characters, since learners will encounter both forms during their course of study or in travel abroad.  Photographs and drawings make the text vivid and eye-catching, and to provide visual cues to aid in communicative exercises and activities. And the Video Program to accompany the “Language in Use” sections enhances the in-text dialogues by presenting them in authentic settings. 

Chinese Link, 2e provides a practical, learner-centered and enjoyable language and cultural learning experience for beginning students of Chinese, as... well as an efficient and comprehensive teaching resource for instructors.   This best-selling text takes care to introduce and explain grammar points clearly and systematically, yet not in a fashion that would be overwhelming to beginners. In keeping with the communicative focus of the text, grammar points are related to communicative task-oriented content. The textbook presents both traditional (complex) and simplified versions of Chinese characters, since learners will encounter both forms during their course of study or in travel abroad.  Photographs and drawings make the text vivid and eye-catching, and to provide visual cues to aid in communicative exercises and activities.    Note: This is the standalone book, if you want the book and access code please order the ISBN below:   0205830536 / 9780205830534 Chinese Link: Beginning Chinese, Simplified Character Version, Level 1/Part 1 with MyChineseLab and Pearson eText (Access Card) * Package consists of 0205637213 / 9780205637218 Chinese Link: Beginning Chinese, Simplified Character Version, Level 1/Part 1 020578397X / 9780205783977 MyChineseLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Chinese Link: Level 1 Simplified Character Version (6-month access)