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Turning Bricks Into Jade: Critical Incidents for Mutual Understanding Among Chinese and Americans
ISBN: 9781877864810 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Chinese are fond of using four-character phrases, known as cheng yu, to improve their writing style. The Chinese characters on the cover spell out one such idiom: pao zhuan yin yu. Translated literally, this would be "throw bricks attract jade." It can also express the idea of throwing out something of little value to induce a potential business partner to offer something more valuable. The authors of Turning Bricks into Jade, a more idiomatic rendering of pao zhuan yin yu, like to think of each critical incident in this collection as a brick, which, when combined with similar bricks,...
The Chinese are fond of using four-character phrases, known as cheng yu, to improve their writing style. The Chinese characters on the cover spell out...
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116,54 |
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The Eight Core Values of the Japanese Businessman: Toward an Understanding of Japanese Management
ISBN: 9781560248712 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The values and behaviors of the Japanese businessman--and of the Japanese in general--are quite diverse and keep changing, making it difficult for anyone (including the Japanese themselves) to truly understand why they act the way they do. The Eight Core Values of the Japanese Businessman saves readers time and effort when pursuing business opportunities in Japan because it identifies the core values of the Japanese businessman, ranging from the obvious and public, "Diligence," to the more private, "Silence as Eloquence" and "Perception of Time." After identifying these eight core...
The values and behaviors of the Japanese businessman--and of the Japanese in general--are quite diverse and keep changing, making it difficult for any...
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117,02 |
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Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China
ISBN: 9781526131577 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the centre of China's historic capital, Long Peace Street cuts a long, arrow-straight line. It divides the Forbidden City, home to generations of Chinese emperors, from Tiananmen Square, the vast granite square constructed to glorify a New China under Communist rule. To walk the street is to travel through the story of China's recent past, wandering among its physical relics and hearing echoes of its dramas. Long Peace Street recounts a journey in modern China, a walk of twenty miles across Beijing offering a very personal encounter with the life of the capital's streets. At the...
Through the centre of China's historic capital, Long Peace Street cuts a long, arrow-straight line. It divides the Forbidden City, home to generations...
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117,69 |
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A Short Stint in Tibet: Captured by Chinese Horse Soldiers, A Couple is Taken on a Wild Journey of Body and Mind
ISBN: 9780595671458 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seeking adventure, a couple, Ernst and Emilie, embark on a trek across the Himalayas, from Nepal into western Tibet. After a clandestine mountain crossing at the source of the Brahmaputra River, the two lost explorers find themselves destitute with no map and meager supplies. Suddenly, they are captured by a bedraggled patrol of outcasts from the Chinese Army. Their trip turns into a wild odyssey as they become 'prisoners" of this ragtag group of wacky characters. "Dripping wet and shivering, we found refuge in a shack adjoining the collection of drowning huts from which we had escaped. It...
Seeking adventure, a couple, Ernst and Emilie, embark on a trek across the Himalayas, from Nepal into western Tibet. After a clandestine mountain cros...
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117,97 |
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How I Lost My Kidneys in China: A Twenty-five Year Overindulgent Odyssey
ISBN: 9781959096306 / Angielski / Twarda / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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118,11 |
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Tibet struggle, a China minority Environment: History, Custom and Tradition
ISBN: 9781912483587 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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118,16 |
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Days and Nights in Summerville
ISBN: 9781436348515 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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120,02 |
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China Travel: Tourism and Business Environment
ISBN: 9781709192746 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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120,07 |
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Shanghai, China: Shanghai History, Tourism, Business Travel, and Vacation Guide
ISBN: 9781671517462 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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120,07 |
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Shenzhen, China: Travel Guide for Tourism and Business Environment
ISBN: 9781671518803 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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120,07 |
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I segreti della cucina cinese
ISBN: 9798211832886 / Włoski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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120,68 |
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吴忠将军口述: 几件大事亲历记
ISBN: 9781006236150 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,59 |
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China Tripping: Encountering the Everyday in the People's Republic
ISBN: 9781538123706 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique book is the first to bring together a group of leading China experts to reflect on their cultural and social encounters while travelling and living in the PRC. Covering nearly a half-century, these stories open a vivid window on a rapidly evolving country and on the zigzag learning curve of the China trippers themselves.
This unique book is the first to bring together a group of leading China experts to reflect on their cultural and social encounters while travelling a...
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121,95 |
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Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders
ISBN: 9781662600333 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,95 |
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Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
ISBN: 9780593655337 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,97 |
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章大班傳: A Legend Story of Taipan Chang
ISBN: 9798210211842 / Chiński / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,97 |
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Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949
ISBN: 9781501761041 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,18 |
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Twilight in the Forbidden City (Illustrated and Revised 4th Edition)
ISBN: 9780968045954 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the British-born Tutor to the Dragon Emperor, Johnston was the only foreigner in history to be allowed inside the inner court of the Qing Dynasty. Johnston carried high imperial titles and lived in both the Forbidden City and the New Summer Palace.
Twilight in the Forbidden City reflects his eyewitness accounts of the memorable events of the time. He provides an first hand account of daily life in the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and gives many detailed descriptions of ceremonies including Pu-yis wedding. Johnston provides a good deal of anecdotal material for the last days of... As the British-born Tutor to the Dragon Emperor, Johnston was the only foreigner in history to be allowed inside the inner court of the Qing Dynasty. ...
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125,59 |
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Tested: Adventures of an American Scientist in Pandemic China
ISBN: 9798987408834 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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125,59 |