<p>Discover China is specially designed for young adult and adult learners and employs a communicative approach to language learning. Emphasis is placed on pair work, group work and on a variety of speaking and listening activities to help students become confident Chinese language speakers. Discover China gives students a comprehensive, integrated and systematic introduction to language.</p>

DISCOVER CHINA 2 Sb Pk

Reference

Shaoyan Qi

Jie, Zhang

Language Study & Reference

Macmillan ELT

Characterization, Modeling, and Performance of Geomaterials contains 27 peer-reviewed papers presented at the GeoHunan International Conference, Challenges and Recent Advances in Pavement Technologies and Transportation Geotechnics, which took place in Changsha, Hunan, China from August 3 to 6, 2009. This Geotechnical Special Publication showcases recent developments and advancements in geotechnical and pavement engineering, and offers insights into future directions for geoengineering in the 21st century. Ranking: Moderate.

Characterization, Modeling, and Performance of Geomaterials (Geotechnical Special Publication)

Engineering & Transportation

Xiong Zhang

Xiong Yu

Hongyuan Fu

Engineering

American Society of Civil Engineers

<p>Besides reproducing the stunning, otherworldly beauty of Michael Wolf's massive Chinese propaganda poster collection so brightly it practically gives you a suntan, his book gives you a sense of how the illiterate masses used these images instead of newspapers and TV to get the news and define themselves. In the introduction, the brilliant Anchee Min explains how the 1974 poster of a pigtailed girl heroically posed amid martyrs made Min change her own look, which got her recruited by Madame Mao to star in a propaganda film. Soon Min appeared in a poster--or rather, Min transformed, muscularized, rendered in shining primary colors. As you page through the hundreds of posters, you see how nimbly the artists handle symbolism and composition, favoring right angles (Mao rising rocketlike from the horizon of the marching populace) and diagonals (citizens' rifles form an X pattern echoed in the next panel by the US jets they've downed, as Mao crows, "The atom bomb is a paper tiger the US reactionary uses to scare people! It looks terrible, but in fact, it isn't."). Dong Cunrui, who used his body as a post supporting explosives to blow up a bridge, is a common vertical image, balanced by the dramatic diagonal pose (so like Captain America) of Huang Ji-guang, who blocked US machine guns with his body in Korea. Whenever a poster shows a young guy or girl at an angle, battling waves or giving a running dog a noogie, the image quotes Ji-guang, the visual equivalent of a rap sample of an old-school riff. This book should've been arranged chronologically; instead, it's whimsically structured to correspond with the chapters of Mao's Red Book. Even so, you can't miss the amazing shift that came around 1980: unisex suits give way to flashy Western clothes, prim pigtails to windblown coifs, tanks to TV sets and snazzy fridges, socialist realism to Norman Rockwell and Seattle World's Fair futurism. --Tim Appelo</p>

Chinese Propoganda Posters - Trilingual Edition in English - French - German

Arts & Photography

Anchee MIn

Stefan Landsberger

History & Criticism

French & European Pubns

"The horrors of the Chinese cultural revolution linger in the memories and lives of Zhang Jie's characters in this engrossing collection of six short stories and a novella. Though these are stories of often painful lives, they also remind us of the powers of love, commitment, and endurance. One of China's most popular-and controversial-authors." -NEWSWEEK

Love Must Not Be Forgotten

Literature & Fiction

Literary

China Books & Periodicals

As Long as Nothing Happens, Nothing Will

Short Stories & Anthologies

Virago

The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution A Typological Survey and Formal Analysis

Routledge

Coronal Magnetometry

Steven Tomczyk

Timothy Bastian

Springer Nature

She Knocked at the Door is the story of a Chinese girl, told in her own words, from childhood to adulthood. Her story is set during the period of China’s great difficulties and the girl endures terrible blows that split her family. She faces not only the usual, everyday adversities, but also surprising and tragic events that no child should experience.Recommened for ages 12 and up

She Knocked at the Door: A Novel

Shanghai Book Traders

Die Arche

München : Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl.

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