Language Arts & Disciplines

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Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders
Edited by T. H. Barrett and Lawrence Wang-chi Wong
Hardcover
$58.00
Cantonese
Cantonese
Hung-nin Samuel Cheung
Hardcover
$55.00
Business English and Communication
Business English and Communication
Edited by The Management Development Center of Hong Kong
Paperback
$20.00
Translation in Hong Kong
Translation in Hong Kong
Edited by Chan Sin-Wai
Paperback
$17.00
A Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken Chinese
A Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken Chinese
Tian Shou-he
Paperback
$16.50
Keys to Chinese Character Writing
Keys to Chinese Character Writing
Jing-Heng Sheng Ma
Paperback
$23.00
Translation and Global Asia
Translation and Global Asia
Edited by Uganda Sze-pui Kwan and Lawrence Wang-chi Wong
Hardcover
$45.00
Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Lawrence Wang-chi Wong
Hardcover
$52.00
Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Edited by Lawrence Wang-chi Wong
Hardcover
$50.00
An Encyclopaedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting
An Encyclopaedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting
Edited by Chan Sin-wai
Hardcover
$52.00
Edited by T. H. Barrett and Lawrence Wang-chi Wong

Crossing Borders

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Sinologists have long been at the forefront of cultural exchanges between China and the West, and translation is a necessary pre-condition for their intercultural exchange. This book merges the academic fields of translation studies and sinology, to gain greater insights into how Chinese works have been transmitted across cultural and linguistic borders, and how translation has enabled global scholarship on Chinese culture from the Ming-Qing period to the twentieth century.
Crossing Borders
Hung-nin Samuel Cheung

Cantonese

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Thanks to dedicated efforts of early missionaries, pedagogues, and linguists, we can trace back the evolution of modern Cantonese—one of the most spoken dialects in China, Southeast Asia, and globally—while differences in sounds, words, and grammar distinguish the old from contemporary speech today.<br><br>Not much was recorded in official documents or gazetteers about the early history of Hong Kong where Cantonese is its most popular dialect. The knowledge of Cantonese is likewise quite limited except for occasional mentions of its culture and customs in writings here and there. For a long time, Cantonese was deemed a local dialect enjoying little prestige among the intellectuals. Its language and its origin remained much of a mystery until the mid-twentieth century when scholars started to accord it with increasing attention.<br><br>In <i>Cantonese: Since the 19th Century</i>, Cheung offers profound insights to some thirty firsthand century-old materials, with findings that will be useful for ongoing efforts to trace the development of a language that has gone through many rounds of incredible and, at times dramatic, changes during the last two hundred years.

Cantonese
Edited by The Management Development Center of Hong Kong

Business English and Communication

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The book begins with the basics of communication and sentence structure in English, and leads the reader step by step through to the formal report writing and public speaking, with the aim of improving the reader's speaking, listening, reading and writing skills essential in today's global business world. The book is designed for intermediate level students and readers, and those at the advanced level who wish to give a final polish to their skills. It is suitable both for classroom use and self-study, adopting a "hand-on" approach to learning. Language learning is a living process; through the many exercises and tasks in the book, the reader will have ample opportunity to practice and learn the art of communication.
Business English and Communication
Edited by Chan Sin-Wai

Translation in Hong Kong

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Hong Kong is a cosmopolitan city where international communication is a fact of everyday life. Translation has thus always been essential in bridging the social and cultural gap between Chinese and Western civilizations. Translation in Hong Kong: Past, Present and Future tries to assess the role played by this academic discipline at different historical periods and to articulate the issues that confront its future development. This is one of the most complete if not the best coverage on the subject, written by notable scholars and practitioners in the field.
Translation in Hong Kong
Tian Shou-he

A Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken Chinese

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This book is intended as a companion reference work to Chinese textbooks for beginners. It uses a comparative approach to address over 200 points of grammar and vocabulary that frequently present difficulties to students of Chinese. This volume serves as an easy and efficient reference for teachers and advanced students as well.
A Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken Chinese
Jing-Heng Sheng Ma

Keys to Chinese Character Writing

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Gateway to Chinese Character Writing is designed to show beginners of Chinese how to write a Chinese character properly. The book introduces the principles that govern the construction of Chinese characters, the basic strokes that comprise Chinese characters, and the proper stroke order when writing Chinese characters. The book is also accompanied by a DVD which clearly demonstrates how to write those Chinese characters introduced in the book in the proper stroke order. The book is highly compatible with Gateway to Chinese Language.
Keys to Chinese Character Writing
Edited by Uganda Sze-pui Kwan and Lawrence Wang-chi Wong

Translation and Global Asia

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Translation and Global Asia: Relocating Cultural Production Network explores the richness of non-Western discourses and practices of translation, focusing on translational exchanges among non-Western languages and Asian translation traditions. The volume provides insight into the translation traditions of various Asian countries and addresses literary translation, translation history, and translation and colonialism.
Translation and Global Asia
Lawrence Wang-chi Wong

Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

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This collection deploys archive studies and translation hermeneutics to merge the historical study of sinology with translation research. Focusing on the context of contributions by early Sinologists and their translations of works in Chinese, the essays in this volume ask why certain works were chosen for translation in particular historical moments; how they were interpreted, translated, and manipulated; and what influence they had, especially in advancing sinology in various countries. This book reconstructs a wider historical and intellectual context from which certain translations emerged and further expands sinology through the extensive use of overlooked archive materials.
Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Edited by Lawrence Wang-chi Wong

Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

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This volume aims at studying the role played by translation in the modernization process of the East Asian countries. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many people saw the West as a model for modernization and hence modernization in East Asia was more often than not taken as a process of learning from or even imitating the West. In this process, translation played a crucial role, when efforts were made to import Western ideas, knowledge, concepts, and practices. The papers in this volume study and explain the various translation phenomena in the modernization processes of China, Korea, and Japan.
Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Edited by Chan Sin-wai

An Encyclopaedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting

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As a sequel to An Encyclopaedia of Translation: Chinese-English, English-Chinese published in 1995, this volume focuses on practical translation and interpreting, the two emerging areas of increasing importance in recent decades, and all chapters are fully illustrated with examples in translation between Chinese and English. Scholars and experts from China, France, Hong Kong, Spain, Taiwan, the UK, and the United States share their experiences in translation or interpreting practice. An Encyclopaedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting should be of great interest to both specialists and general readers.
An Encyclopaedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting