The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 1
The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 1

Author: S. W. Well

Publisher: Suntific, Books by the Intellectual Engagé for Intellectuals

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 098887086X

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The complete book of Chinese characters that covers every aspect of, and therefore answers all the questions one might have for, these fascinating ancient language symbols from script evolution to colour-illustrated biographies including proper Stroke sequences and from the complete Compound anatomy to the trinity of Sounds, Semantics, and Synopses. This series of books is the ultimate guide and reference for first-time learners as well as masters of the language. It is for both the teachers and self-motivated students. This is the 1st volume of the series, covering the 1st 100 most frequently used Chinese characters as presented with their full colour illustrations and arranged in columns from right to left on the front cover. For its extensive colour illustrations throughout, this book is best read with a colour screen reader.

The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 2
The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 2

Author: S. W. Well

Publisher: Suntific, Books by the Intellectual Engagé for Intellectuals

Published: 2014-08-08

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1311839410

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The complete book of Chinese characters that covers every aspect of, and therefore answers all the questions one might have for, these fascinating ancient language symbols from script evolution to colour-illustrated biographies including proper Stroke sequences and from the complete Compound anatomy to the trinity of Sounds, Semantics, and Synopses. This series of books is the ultimate guide and reference for first-time learners as well as masters of the language. It is for both the teachers and self-motivated students. This is the 2nd volume of the series, covering the 2nd 100 most frequently used Chinese characters as presented with their full colour illustrations and arranged in columns from right to left on the front cover. For its extensive colour illustrations throughout, this book is best read with a colour screen reader.

The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 3
The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 3

Author: S. W. Well

Publisher: Suntific, Books by the Intellectual Engagé for Intellectuals

Published: 2015-05-23

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1310460973

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The complete book of Chinese characters that covers every aspect of, and therefore answers all the questions one might have for, these fascinating ancient language symbols from script evolution to colour-illustrated biographies including proper Stroke sequences and from the complete Compound anatomy to the trinity of Sounds, Semantics, and Synopses. This series of books is the ultimate guide and reference for first-time learners as well as masters of the language. It is for both the teachers and self-motivated students. This is the 3rd volume of the series, covering the 3rd 100 most frequently used Chinese characters as presented with their full colour illustrations and arranged in columns from right to left on the front cover. For its extensive colour illustrations throughout, this book is best read with a colour screen reader.

The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 5
The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 5

Author: S. W. Well

Publisher: Suntific, Books by the Intellectual Engagé for Intellectuals

Published: 2016-06-20

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1310681805

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The complete book of Chinese characters that covers every aspect of, and therefore answers all the questions one might have for, these fascinating ancient language symbols from script evolution to colour-illustrated biographies including proper Stroke sequences and from the complete Compound anatomy to the trinity of Sounds, Semantics, and Synopses. This series of books is the ultimate guide and reference for first-time learners as well as masters of the language. It is for both the teachers and self-motivated students. This is the 4th volume of the series, covering the 4th 100 most frequently used Chinese characters as presented with their full colour illustrations and arranged in columns from right to left on the front cover.

The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 4
The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 4

Author: S. W. Well

Publisher: Suntific, Books by the Intellectual Engagé for Intellectuals

Published: 2015-10-30

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1310413657

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The complete book of Chinese characters that covers every aspect of, and therefore answers all the questions one might have for, these fascinating ancient language symbols from script evolution to colour-illustrated biographies including proper Stroke sequences and from the complete Compound anatomy to the trinity of Sounds, Semantics, and Synopses. This series of books is the ultimate guide and reference for first-time learners as well as masters of the language. It is for both the teachers and self-motivated students. This is the 4th volume of the series, covering the 4th 100 most frequently used Chinese characters as presented with their full colour illustrations and arranged in columns from right to left on the front cover. For its extensive colour illustrations throughout, this book is best read with a colour screen reader.

Overture to The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters
Overture to The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters

Author: S. W. Well

Publisher: Suntific, Books by the Intellectual Engagé for Intellectuals

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1310997411

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The complete introduction to Chinese language that covers its writing symbols, pronunciation, and unique language characteristics with emphases of the formation and classes of the writing symbols or characters to unveil the mystery shrouding the stories they tell and prepare readers for The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters. This book is the ultimate guide and reference for first-time learners as well as masters of the Chinese language. It is for both the teachers and self-motivated students. For its extensive colour illustrations throughout, this book is best read with a colour screen reader.

My First Book of Chinese Words
My First Book of Chinese Words

Author: Faye-Lynn Wu

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1462911838

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My First Book of Chinese Words introduces young children to basic words and concepts in the Chinese language through colorful rhymes and beautiful imagery. It is a book that parents and young children will enjoy reading together. The Chinese words in the book are all common, everyday items, and the rhymes are informative and fun for children. The goal of My First Book of Chinese Words is to familiarize children with the basic sounds and written characters of Chinese, to introduce core concepts of Chinese culture and to illustrate the ways in which Chinese sounds differ from English ones. Teachers and parents will welcome the cultural notes at the back of the book and appreciate how the book is organized using a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Chinese characters (both Simplified and Traditional) as well as Romanized Pinyin for easy pronunciation. With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon join the more than one billion people worldwide who speak Chinese!

Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

Author: Jing Tsu

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-01-17

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0735214735

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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.

American Born Chinese
American Born Chinese

Author: Gene Luen Yang

Publisher: First Second

Published: 2006-09-06

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1466805463

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A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax. American Born Chinese is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core Connections