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Author: Irena Kałużyńska Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN: 9783906762678 Category : China Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book is dedicated to various aspects of contemporary Chinese place names, their structural and semantic features, as well as naming phenomena present in Chinese toponymy. The structural analysis deals with the division of placename words into generic and specific, and the classification of Chinese generics and specifics according to their morphological structure. The classification of toponyms as derivations from other words is also discussed. This study analyses the semantic content of toponyms, dealing with their meaning as proper names, and classifies them into nine main categories according to their origin. The study is based on a corpus of 1973 names of administrative units at the county and city level of 20 provinces of the People's Republic of China.
Author: Irena Kałużyńska Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN: 9783906762678 Category : China Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is dedicated to various aspects of contemporary Chinese place names, their structural and semantic features, as well as naming phenomena present in Chinese toponymy. The structural analysis deals with the division of placename words into generic and specific, and the classification of Chinese generics and specifics according to their morphological structure. The classification of toponyms as derivations from other words is also discussed. This study analyses the semantic content of toponyms, dealing with their meaning as proper names, and classifies them into nine main categories according to their origin. The study is based on a corpus of 1973 names of administrative units at the county and city level of 20 provinces of the People's Republic of China.
Author: Liwei Jiao Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317330315 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 624
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A Thematic Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese is a unique resource for intermediate to advanced students of Chinese. The dictionary presents 9,000 words organized thematically in 300 different subject areas. These themes cover the vocabulary necessary for daily use and for conducting meaningful conversations with native Chinese speakers on a variety of topics, from politics to business, and from hobbies to education. Each vocabulary item is annotated with the most frequent collocations allowing learners to improve their fluency by storing new vocabulary in larger linguistic units. Cultural and linguistic tips enable learners to grasp the vocabulary more effectively and increase their awareness of Chinese culture embedded in the language. Review exercises are provided throughout to ensure learners have ample opportunity to practice the new material. This is a great resource for both independent study and classroom use and will be of interest to students and teachers of Chinese alike. For further understanding of Chinese expressions, students are encouraged to read 500 Common Chinese Proverbs and Colloquial Expressions and 500 Common Chinese Idioms.
Author: Laifong Leung Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317516192 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 411
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In the years since the death of Mao Zedong, interest in Chinese writers and Chinese literature has risen significantly in the West. In 2000, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature followed by Mo Yan in 2012, and writers such as Ha Jin and Da Sijie have also become well known in the West. Despite this progress, the vast majority of Chinese writers remain largely unknown outside of China. This book introduces the lives and works of eighty contemporary Chinese writers, and focuses on writers from the "Rightist" generation (Bai Hua, Gao Xiaosheng, Liu Shaotang), writers of the Red Guard generation (Li Rui, Wang Anyi), Post-Cultural Revolution Writers, as well as others. Unlike earlier works, it provides detailed, often first-hand, biographical information on this wide range of writers, including their career trajectories, major themes and artistic characteristics. In addition to this, each entry includes a critical presentation and evaluation of the writer’s major works, a selected bibliography of publications that includes works in Chinese, works translated into English, and critical articles and books available in English. Offering a valuable contribution to the field of contemporary Chinese literature by making detailed information about Chinese writers more accessible, this book will be of interest to students and scholars Chinese Literature, Contemporary Literature and Chinese Studies.
Author: Zhi Dao Publisher: DeepLogic ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages :
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The book provides highlights on the key concepts and trends of evolution in History of Place Names in China, as one of the series of books of “China Classified Histories”.
Author: Xiaobo Dong Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9819925053 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 356
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This book delivers a comprehensive, insightful, and updated analytic description of contemporary Chinese legal system. From a macro perspective, it presents, both theoretically and empirically, the evolution of Chinese law, describing its distinctive features, comparing it with other experiences across the world, and exploring the influence of economic, social, cultural, and technological factors thereon. From a micro perspective, based on the latest laws and regulations so promulgated and relevant research, this book briefly summarizes the basic theories and knowledge of existing law in the PRC, including the Constitution, civil law, criminal law, administrative law, procedural law, intellectual property law, economic law, etc. With this book, not only law students, lawyers, and those who have a background in Chinese law but also general readers can catch a penetrating glimpse into the fast-changing Chinese legal system.
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This is a study of the Chinese city of Beijing in which I use "place names" as a means of understanding the changing geography of the city over its long history. Although place names have been widely studied from across a spectrum of disciplines, a study on the history of the process of naming places in China is still very limited in English literature. Moreover, place naming is not only a historical process but also geographical phenomena. Scholars have for long seemingly ignored the fact that people with different cultural backgrounds, living in different parts of the world, may name their places in different ways. In the USA, Martin Luther King streets may be seen all over the map, yet for all the worshiping of Chairman Mao during the Cultural Revolution, there is not a single street named after him in China. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to discover the character of Chinese place-names by using Beijing as the case. Beijing's place names are not just to help us find our way, but rich stories that reveal our di3fferent ways of understanding the locations. For studying the historical transformation of these understandings, I classify Beijing's place-names into scientific, humanistic and social constructionist ways of naming. In this way, we can classify the complicated and various place names into three intertwined parts: objects and numbers, histories and emotions, politics and ideologies. In details, I see Beijing's place names as chronologically representative of six distinctive understandings of the locations. (1) The cosmological-symbolic: a capital of a "huge unity in Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) (2) The Confucian ideological and urban-planner practical: the capital sat on the border in Ming dynasty (1368-1644); (3) The cosmological-symbolic vs. social-practical: the capital as adapted by Manchu dynasty (Qing dynasty 1644-1912); (4) The half-hearted modern in Republic of China (1912-1949); (5) The People's Republic of China: Marxist-Maoist phase (1950-1976); and (6) The People's Republic of China: post-Marxist, quasi-capitalist, neo-Confucianist phase (1976-present).
Author: Michele Bonino Publisher: Birkhäuser ISBN: 303561766X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 240
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By 2020, some 400 Chinese New Towns will have been built, representing an unprecedented urban growth. While some of these massive developments are still empty today, others have been rather successful. The substantial effort on the part of the Chinese government is to absorb up to 250 million people, chiefly migrants from the rural parts of the country. Unlike in Europe and North America, where new towns grew in accordance to the local industries, these new Chinese cities are mostly built to the point of near completion before introducing people. The interdisciplinary publication, written by architects, planners and geographers, explores the new urbanistic phenomenon of the "Chinese New Town". Especially commissioned photographs and maps illustrate many examples of these new settlements.
Author: Hyunhee Park Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139536621 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
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Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia engaged in vigorous cross-cultural exchanges across the Indian Ocean. This book focuses on the years 700 to 1500, a period when powerful dynasties governed both regions, to document the relationship between the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the arrival of the Europeans. Through a close analysis of the maps, geographic accounts, and travelogues compiled by both Chinese and Islamic writers, the book traces the development of major contacts between people in China and the Islamic world and explores their interactions on matters as varied as diplomacy, commerce, mutual understanding, world geography, navigation, shipbuilding, and scientific exploration. When the Mongols ruled both China and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, their geographic understanding of each other's society increased markedly. This rich, engaging, and pioneering study offers glimpses into the worlds of Asian geographers and mapmakers, whose accumulated wisdom underpinned the celebrated voyages of European explorers like Vasco da Gama.
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