Authors:Philip F. Williams Ph.D., Yenna Wu Ph.D.,
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Serie
Keywords: way, easy, series, chinese
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0764106597
ISBN-13: 9780764106590

Chinese the Easy Way emphasizes the develop ment of skills in speaking and listening comprehension that are key to building a so lid foundation in Mandarin Chinese. Lively colloquial dialogues present Chinese as i t is actually spoken on the street and in such places as hotels, bookstores, privat e homes, and restaurants. The dialogues convey a spirit of good humor that so many C hinese people bring to their lives. Explanations of sentence structures and grammar aim at clarity and succinctness, and readers have an opportunity to immedia tely test themselves on what they have learned with exerc

Authors:Philip F. Williams, Yenna Wu,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: contemporary, fiction, reportage, camp, prison, confinement, chinese, wall
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2004-08-17
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0520227794
ISBN-13: 9780520227798

China is the only major world power to have entered the twenty-first century with a thriving prison camp network-a frightening, mostly hidden realm known since 1951 as the laogai system. This book, the most comprehensive study of China’s prison camps to date, draws from a wide range of primary sources, including many compelling literary documents, to illuminate life inside China’s prison camps. Focusing mainly on the second half of the twentieth century, Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu outline the evolution of the laogai system, construct a vivid picture of prisoners’ lives f

Authors:Philip F. Williams Ph.D., Yenna Wu Ph.D.,
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Keywords: audio, barron, way, easy, chinese, mandarin
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0764193694
ISBN-13: 9780764193699

Titles in Barron’s Easy Way series are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide range of subjects and skills. Among them are several language-learning books for beginners. This second edition of Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way comes with an audio compact disc that supplements the book, providing pronunciation help and listening comprehension material in the form of spoken dialogues. This book-and-CD combination introduces basic sentence patterns and practical vocabulary by dramatizing many true-to-life and often humorous conversational situations in Mandarin Chinese. An introduction to Ch