500 Common Chinese Idioms: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary

500 Common Chinese Idioms is the ideal tool for all intermediate to advanced learners of Chinese. Based on large corpora of authentic language data, it presents the 500 most commonly used Chinese idioms or chengyu, along with a variety of synonyms, antonyms and the most common structures, enabling the reader to make educated guesses about the meanings of hundreds of unfamiliar idioms.  Key features include:    the idiom in both simplified and traditional characters   a literal English translation and English equivalents   two suitable example sentences, plus explanations and usage notes   a Pinyin index and stroke order index.   This practical dictionary is suitable both for class use and independent study and will be of interest to students and teachers of Chinese alike.

Literature & Fiction

Jiao, Liwei

Zhang, Weiguo

Kubler, Cornelius

History & Criticism

Routledge

500 Common Chinese Idioms is the ideal tool for all intermediate to advanced learners of Chinese. Based on large corpora of authentic language data, it presents the 500 most commonly used Chinese idioms or chengyu, along with a variety of synonyms, antonyms and the most common structures, enabling the reader to make educated guesses about the meanings of hundreds of unfamiliar idioms. Key features include: <ul>
<li>the idiom in both simplified and traditional characters</li> <li>a literal English translation and English equivalents</li> <li>two suitable example sentences, plus explanations and usage notes</li> <li>a Pinyin index and stroke order index.</li> </ul> This practical dictionary is suitable both for class use and independent study and will be of interest to students and teachers of Chinese alike.

Based on an intensive fieldwork in a southern Hebei village in northern China (1992/3), the author takes an institutional approach and focuses on the way deliberate Chinese state policies driven by new economic and social agendas since the late 1970s have impacted on marriage, family relations and consequently on the way fertility trends have been adversely affected; the study is also very much concerned with the human dimension and the way in which such social and economic changes are perceived and applied in a rural community. The research presented in this study goes a long way to unravelling the puzzle concerning the reasons for a very rapid decline in Chinese fertility rates, contrasting sharply with a very different fertility transition within western cultures.

Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour (China Library)

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Based on an intensive fieldwork in a southern Hebei village in northern China (1992/3), the author takes an institutional approach and focuses on the way deliberate Chinese state policies driven by new economic and social agendas since the late 1970s have impacted on marriage, family relations and consequently on the way fertility trends have been adversely affected; the study is also very much concerned with the human dimension and the way in which such social and economic changes are perceived and applied in a rural community. The research presented in this study goes a long way to unravelling the puzzle concerning the reasons for a very rapid decline in Chinese fertility rates, contrasting sharply with a very different fertility transition within western cultures.

Chinese Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour: A Study of a North China Village

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500 Common Chinese Idioms: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary

500 Common Chinese Idioms: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary

Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour (China Library)

Chinese Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour: A Study of a North China Village