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  • Rock Mechanics

    by Shunchuan Wu, Liping Li, Xiaoping Zhang ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book systematically introduces the fundamental theories, testing methods, and practical applications of rock mechanics and rock engineering. Rock mechanics is a core course for students majoring in mining, civil engineering, water conservancy, petroleum, transportation, geology, and related fields. This book emphasizes the integration of theory, experimentation, and practice, and it is ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Multimodality in Translation Studies

    Media, Models, and Trends in China

    Edited by Li Pan, Xiaoping Wu, Tian Luo, Hong Qian ...
    Focusing on multimodality in translation studies, this edited volume presents insights into the models, trends, and practices of multimodal translation across a variety of media contexts in contemporary China.The book is structured into five main themes, investigating audiovisual translation in digital media, multimodal translation of Chinese classics in print media, multimodal design in website ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Folklore Fieldwork

    by Xiaoping Dong ...
    Translated by Xinyi Wu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Folklore Fieldwork the first book to present systematic research based on the author’s more than 20 years of fieldwork in urban and rural areas throughout China. It addresses the theory and methodology of Chinese folkloristics, highlighting the unique characteristics of Chinese culture and society in the process, and explores the core process of modern Chinese folkloristics, making the field ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    by David Moser ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... Read more

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  • Postmodernism and China

    by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno, Ping-Hui Liao ...
    Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Writing Essays in English Language and Linguistics

    Principles, Tips and Strategies for Undergraduates

    by Neil Murray ...
    English language and linguistics shares many of its writing conventions with those of other disciplines, but there are certain features and expectations that distinguish it as a subject. This book is written specifically to help undergraduate students of English language and linguistics develop the art of writing essays, projects and reports. Written by an author with over 30 years' experience of ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2022)

    Edited by Yulia Pogrebnyak, Runan Hou ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is an open access book. International Science and Culture Center for Academic Contacts (ISCCAC) is pleased to announce The 3rd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2022).The conference was held on August 12-13, 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held in on-line format.ICLCCS 2022 covers a number of problems, such as: prospects for ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research) (ICCESSH 2022)

    Edited by Olga Chistyakova, Iana Roumbal ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is an open access book.The aim of the Conference is to provide a shared platform for academics, scholars, PhD students, and graduate students with different cultural backgrounds to present and discuss research, developments and innovations in the fields of contemporary education, social sciences and humanities are referred with the understanding of the Human being.Papers concerning education, ... Read more

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  • Gifts, Favors, and Banquets

    The Art of Social Relationships in China

    by Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang ...
    Series series The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
    An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Writing Your Thesis

    by Paul Oliver ...
    Series series Student Success
    ′Written in an authoritative and accessible style, this is a must-read for anyone planning, researching and writing a doctoral thesis or dissertation. I will certainly be recommending this book to my research students.′ - Professor Goeffrey Elliott, University of Worcester′Paul′s book was a lifeline during my doctorate: it is now the first book that I recommend for my research students! His book ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Chinese Folklore Studies Today

    Discourse and Practice

    Edited by Lijun Zhang, Ziying You ...
    Chinese folklorists are well acquainted with the work of their English-language colleagues, but until recently the same could not be said about American scholars' knowledge of Chinese folkloristics. Chinese Folklore Studies Today aims to address this knowledge gap by illustrating the dynamics of contemporary folklore studies in China as seen through the eyes of the up-and-coming generation of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Discovering Sociolinguistics

    From Theory to Practice

    by Dick Smakman ...
    This engagingly written textbook provides a unique 'hands-on' introduction to sociolinguistics, which equips readers with the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project. The book begins by outlining the historical, theoretical and cultural space in which language use occurs, before delving into the key topics and concepts of today's field. It examines the choices speakers make in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD