Chinese Characters: learning to read and write, just one each day...library edition, book 5, english

an astonishingly fun and playful way to learn to read and write chinese characters...

this simple and highly interactive guide takes you through mastering one - yes, just one - new character each day...

the little guide is filled with entertaining and informative stories, ideas, and bite-size bits of chinese culture and wisdom...

anyone who follows the system is practically guaranteed an end result of a confident ability to read and write these beautiful...

With deep secrets, calculating confessions, and the eternal fight for a father's love, Still Standing is a play about two women. In the course of events, they discover a meaning for "family" that runs much deeper than blood.

-What if you never knew you had a sister?

-What if you suddenly found out not only that you did, but that she sees the world just as you do?

-What if you found she had the character to live a life much braver than you ever could

Having recently lost her father to cancer, Laura Theis looks at her life and finds it neck-deep in...

China Tales and Stories: MR. FOOL MOVES THE MOUNTAIN (Russian Version)

Mr. Fool Moves the Mountain is one of China's most widely known, highly regarded stories. It was a favorite of Chairman Mao's, and he often quoted from it.

Mr. Fool Moves the Mountain is from the Mead-Hill collection, China Tales and Stories. It is a kind of moral tale telling a charming and timeless story of faith, optimism, determination, perseverance, and hard work. Mr. Fool reminds us of that universal premise: persistence overcomes adversity.

At the same time, Mr. Fool Moves the Mountain...

China Tales and Stories: MR. FOOL MOVES THE MOUNTAIN (Chinese-Russian Bilingual)

Mr. Fool Moves the Mountain is one of China's most widely known, highly regarded stories. It was a favorite of Chairman Mao's, and he often quoted from it.

Mr. Fool Moves the Mountain is from the Mead-Hill collection, China Tales and Stories. It is a kind of moral tale telling a charming and timeless story of faith, optimism, determination, perseverance, and hard work. Mr. Fool reminds us of that universal premise: persistence overcomes adversity.

At the same time, Mr. Fool Moves...

CHINA POETRY: a MAO ZEDONG primer

Mainly known throughout the world as a military and political strategist, Mao Zedong was also an accomplished calligrapher and widely respected poet. His writing sampled a variety of China's poetry modes. They make use of different of its line lengths, forms, styles, meter and word play.

As activities regularly took him back and forth across China's sprawling landscape, many of its natural beauties came to find expression in Mao's writing. Moreover, a side of him not usually detailed to the public, Mao was a devoted husband, father, and...