Author: George Tradescant LayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Chinese as They are
Author: George Tradescant LayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Chinese as They are: Their Moral and Social Character, Manners, Customs, Languages
Author: George Tradescant LayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385127408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
The Chinese Atlantic
Author: Sean MetzgerPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253047536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In The Chinese Atlantic, Sean Metzger charts processes of global circulation across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new understandings of Chinese migration, financial networks and artistic production. Moving across film, painting, performance, and installation art, Metzger traces flows of money, culture, and aesthetics to reveal the ways in which routes of commerce stretching back to the Dutch Golden Age have molded and continue to influence the social reproduction of Chineseness. With a particular focus on the Caribbean, Metzger investigates the expressive culture of Chinese migrants and the communities that received these waves of people. He interrogates central issues in the study of similar case studies from South Africa and England to demonstrate how Chinese Atlantic seascapes frame globalization as we experience it today. Frequently focusing on art that interacts directly with the sites in which it is located, Metzger explores how Chinese migrant laborers and entrepreneurs did the same to shape—both physically and culturally—the new spaces in which they found themselves. In this manner, Metzger encourages us to see how artistic imagination and practice interact with migration to produce a new way of framing the global.
A Study of Attitudes of Dialect Speakers Towards the Speak Mandarin Campaign in Singapore
Author: Patrick Chin Leong NgPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811034435
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
This book makes an original contribution to the fields of sociolinguistics, language planning policy and Chinese language studies. It examines the effectiveness of the Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign in changing the language use of dialect speakers towards Mandarin.Singapore may be only “a small red dot” and barely visible on the world’s map. However, its complex and dynamic linguistic diversity and its quadrilingual educational system make it a unique and fascinating research site for examining deliberate language planning on the part of governmental authorities. 2017 marks the 38th anniversary of the Speak Mandarin Campaign, a focused language-planning policy aimed at changing the deeply entrenched sociolinguistic habits of Chinese Singaporeans who are used to speaking Chinese dialects. This book provides a revealing update on dialect speakers’ attitudes towards the campaign by including discussions and other related issues such as the recent call for the revitalisation of Chinese dialects by younger dialect speakers, Chinese students’ attitude towards learning Mandarin in schools, the encroachment of English in the home environment, the spread and dominance of English in the local linguistic landscape, and the challenges of maintaining Mandarin as a language of use and preference.
The Chinese Recorder
Author: The Chinese Repository
Author: China's Millions
Author: They Called Us White Chinese
Author: Robert N. TharpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
In a simple narrative style Robert N. Tharp tells the compelling story of himself & his wife, Evangeline, both of whom were born in the interior of China to missionary parents. In five books within one captivating volume, he describes the rich & intimate details of their everyday lives as they experience history-making events. Book I, 1913-33: Fascinating tales of an active youth in an exotic land. Book II, 1933-41: The war years: collapse of Manchuria to the Japanese & the Chinese Communists; marriage to childhood sweetheart, Eva; imprisonment & internment by Japanese. Book III, 1942-47: Repatriation & assignment to India; monitoring of Japanese puppet Chinese-language broadcasts to the West; writing & broadcasting counter-propaganda warfare. Book IV, 1947-48: Return to missionary work in Manchuria; dangerous flight & escape from Communist threat; voyage to the United States. Book V, 1948-Present: Immigration classification as "White Chinese"; deportation procedures started but averted by urgent U.S. Government need for instructors of Mandarin Chinese for intelligence personnel; development & administration of innovative language programs & audio visual equipment; Army Language School, Yale University, & Defense Language Institute; unique retirement activities.
United States-China Trade Relations and Renewal of China's Most-favored-nation Status
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Official Report of Debates, House of Commons
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description