Moon Living Abroad in Beijing

Moon Living Abroad in Beijing

Author: Shannon Aitken

Publisher: Moon Travel

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1612385400

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Shannon Aitken has all the insight on what it's like to live in Beijing-she's made the move there herself. In Moon Living Abroad in Beijing, she offers firsthand advice on navigating the language and culture of this exciting metropolis and outlines all the information needed to settle down abroad in an organized and straightforward manner. Moon Living Abroad in Beijing is packed with essential information and must-have details on setting up daily life, including obtaining visas, arranging finances, gaining employment, choosing schools, and finding health care-plus practical suggestions for how to rent or buy a home for a variety of needs and budgets, whether it's a small apartment downtown or a sprawling villa in suburban Shunyi. With extensive color and black and white photos, illustrations, and maps to help you find your way, Moon Living Abroad in Beijing makes it easy for anyone to transition to a life abroad.


Moon Living Abroad in China

Moon Living Abroad in China

Author: Barbara Strother

Publisher: Moon Travel

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 161238868X

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If you have always dreamed of living in China and are ready to take that step, Moon Living Abroad in China delivers what you need to know about your move—in a smart and organized manner. Wife-and-husband author team Barbara and Stuart Strother have extensive experience working, traveling, and living in China. With their expertise, you'll receive the information you need, including essential information on setting up your daily life, applying for visas, tackling finances, and looking for employment. You'll get practical advice on education, health care, and how to rent or buy a home that fits your needs. The book also includes color and black and white photos, illustrations, and maps to help you find your bearings. With insight into navigating the language and culture of China, Moon Living Abroad in China is a helpful resource for tourists, business people, adventurers, students, teachers, professionals, families, couples, and retirees looking to relocate.


Moon Living Abroad in China

Moon Living Abroad in China

Author: Stuart Strother

Publisher: Avalon Travel Pub

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9781566919944

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If you have always dreamed of living in China and are ready to take that stepf actually moving there, nowhere else will you find a book that accomplishesverything you need to know in a smart, organized, and straightforward manner.tuart and Barbara Strother left the U.S. to make a home in China. Withheir expertise, you'll receive the information you need.


The Future Conditional

The Future Conditional

Author: Eric S. Henry

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-05-15

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1501754912

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In The Future Conditional, Eric S. Henry brings twelve-years of expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globalization of the English language and the widespread effects it has had on Shenyang, the capital and largest city of China's northeast Liaoning Province. Adopting an ethnographic and linguistic perspective, Henry considers the personal connotations that English, has for Chinese people, beyond its role in the education system. Through research on how English is spoken, taught, and studied in China, Henry considers what the language itself means to Chinese speakers. How and why, he asks, has English become so deeply fascinating in contemporary China, simultaneously existing as a source of desire and anxiety? The answer, he suggests, is that English-speaking Chinese consider themselves distinctly separate from those who do not speak the language, the result of a cultural assumption that speaking English makes a person modern. Seeing language as a study that goes beyond the classroom, The Future Conditional assesses the emerging viewpoint that, for many citizens, speaking English in China has become a cultural need—and, more immediately, a realization of one's future.


Unsavory Elements

Unsavory Elements

Author: Tom Carter

Publisher: Earnshaw Books Limited

Published: 2022-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789881616401

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Featuring entirely original writings written exclusively for this work, this anthology is filled with 28 essays from foreigners who live or have lived in China for a significant period of time. The book contains beautiful and enlightening stories about China from such noteworthy writers as Simon Winchester, Peter Hessler, Susan Conley, and Alan Paul, among others. Through their personal stories, they illustrate the many sides of Chinese life--the weird, the fascinating, and the appalling--and share what it's like to live, learn, and love as an outsider in a land unlike any other in the world.


Life Stories

Life Stories

Author: Maureen O'Connor

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-08-23

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13: 1610691466

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Memoirs, autobiographies, and diaries represent the most personal and most intimate of genres, as well as one of the most abundant and popular. Gain new understanding and better serve your readers with this detailed genre guide to nearly 700 titles that also includes notes on more than 2,800 read-alike and other related titles. The popularity of this body of literature has grown in recent years, and it has also diversified in terms of the types of stories being told—and persons telling them. In the past, readers' advisors have depended on access by names or Dewey classifications and subjects to help readers find autobiographies they will enjoy. This guide offers an alternative, organizing the literature according to popular genres, subgenres, and themes that reflect common reading interests. Describing titles that range from travel and adventure classics and celebrity autobiographies to foodie memoirs and environmental reads, Life Stories: A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries presents a unique overview of the genre that specifically addresses the needs of readers' advisors and others who work with readers in finding books.


Astrological Biographies

Astrological Biographies

Author: Bepin Behari

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 8120814312

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Astrological Biographies shows that the life of every individual is guided by the same set of stellar impulses and every one, however eminent he maybe has to bear his cross. The sorrows and frustrations which invariably accompany every human being are inevitable parts of the process of growth and inner-unfoldment. The life of eminent personalities studies in this work in some degree or more represents the life of the millions who are struggling for more light and a greater understanding of their purpose existence.


Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds

Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds

Author: Michael Yonan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2019-02-21

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1501335499

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While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays from a distinguished group of scholars explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the eighteenth century. Capturing the full material diversity of eighteenth-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside far more numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of eighteenth-century art, it bridges the disciplines of art history and cultural geography, and draws attention away from any one place as a privileged art-historical site, while highlighting places such as Manila, Beijing, Mexico City, and London as significant points on globalized map of the eighteenth-century art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds combines a broad global perspective on the history of art with careful attention to how global artistic concerns intersect with local ones, offering a framework for future studies in global art history.