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  • An Anthology of Chinese Music (Three volumes)

    by Shang Yue, Xia Jyuxin, Guo Liangliang ...
    An Anthology of Chinese Music is a three-volume series encompassing songs, instrumental works, and opera, presenting China's musical masterpieces spanning millennia. Each entry features original scores, lyrics, and in-depth analysis. These explore the works' creative origins, cross-cultural dissemination, and blend scholarly rigor with performative accessibility. Commentaries dissect musical ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Shanghai

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Chen Qiufan, Wang Anyi, Xiao Bai, Shen Dacheng, Chen Danyan, Cai Jun, Xia Shang, Teng Xiaolan, Fu Yuehui, Wang Zhanhei ...
    Series series Reading the City
    As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man’s only wish is to return a library book...When a publisher agrees to let a star author use his company’s attic to write in, little does he suspect this will become the author’s permanent residence...As Shanghai succumbs to a seemingly apocalyptic deluge, a man takes refuge in his bathtub, only to find himself, moments later, floating ... Read more

    $10.13 CAD

  • Computational Epidemiology

    From Disease Transmission Modeling to Vaccination Decision Making

    by Jiming Liu, Shang Xia ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to computational epidemiology, highlighting its major methodological paradigms throughout the development of the field while emphasizing the needs for a new paradigm shift in order to most effectively address the increasingly complex real-world challenges in disease control and prevention.Specifically, the book presents the basic concepts, related ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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  • The Book of Chinese Names: A Guide to Auspicious and Elegant Names

    by Goh Kheng Chuan, Goh Kheng Yew ...
    What makes a good Chinese name and how does the name shape destinies and character? How do you ensure that the name is meaningful, elegant and auspicious at the same time?This book provides all the knowledge you need for devising a good Chinese name for your child.This book covers:- Creative Methods For Naming: Number of Strokes Theory, Chinese Horoscope, The Five Elements, The Eight Characters ... Read more

    $9.90 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Calligraphy

    by Catherine Petitjean-Kail ...
    Chinese Calligraphy is a discipline between art, language and meditation that trains memory and spatial coordination.It can be done by everyone – even those who do not speak Chinese.In China, Calligraphy is considered as an art, side by side with painting and invites to modesty and admiration.Writing with ink and a paint brush is also a meditation technique as it brings instantaneous well-being to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Hearts of Pine

    Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women"

    by Joshua D. Pilzer, J. D. ...
    In the wake of the Asia-Pacific War, Korean survivors of the "comfort women" system-those bound into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the war-lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. Hearts of Pine brings us into the lives of three such survivors: Pak Duri, Mun Pilgi, and Bae Chunhui. Over the course of eight years, author Joshua Pilzer worked with ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Easy Way to Learn Chinese Language

    by Y.X Song ...
    This is a book using Chinese Pinyin and international IPA together to help you to speak the very basic Chinese language. It makes the first step of learning Chinese simple. After you read this book and remember the phrases in the book, you will be able to simply interact with native people in China, and this will make your trip or stays in China more enjoyable. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Traditional Music

    Sounds in Harmony with Nature

    by Robert Koehler et al. ...
    Series Book 8 - Korea Essentials
    Music has played and continues to play a vital role in Korean society, providing a rich vein of material as a dynamic part of the nation's culture. Korean music's history reflects active engagement with surrounding cultures, as well as indigenous creativity and innovation.Korea is heir to one of the world's oldest repertoires of notated music. Over the past several hundred years, virtuosic ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Way of the Pipa

    Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music

    by Myers ...
    Series series World Music
    “Over the centuries a repertoire of solo pipa pieces has developed and this study focuses on those found in the Hua collection, which encompasses the pieces in the repertoire of the Hua family, and was printed, using the wooden block technique, in 1819. Among the works are many ancient melodies which were handed down through oral tradition. Myers discusses the history and development of the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Geese Returning

    Chinese Reversible Poems

    by Michele Metail ...
    A breathtaking introduction to Chinese multidirectional poems, told through the story of Su Hui, the greatest writer of these poems who embroidered a silk with 840 characters--equaling as many as 12,000 multidirectional poems--for her distant husband.For nearly two thousand years, the condensed language of classical Chinese has offered the possibility of writing poems that may be read both forward ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Writing Early China

    by Edward L. Shaughnessy ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.Archaeological discoveries over the past one hundred years have resulted in repeated calls to "rewrite ancient Chinese history." This is especially true of documents written on oracle bones, bronze vessels, and bamboo strips. In Writing Early China, Edward L. Shaughnessy surveys all of these ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Chinese Literature

    by Taiping Chang Knechtges ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    A Dictionary of Chinese Literature provides more than 250 entries on the lengthy and remarkable literary tradition of China, from its earliest literary genres such as the 6th century gongti wenxue (palace-style literature), to contemporary forms, such as wanglu wenxue (internet literature). Covering notable writers, works, terms, trends, schools, movements, styles, and literary collections, as ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD