by Xiao-ming Li (1996)
Writing comments on student papers is a time-honored and widely accepted practice in writing classrooms in most countries. Teachers offer text-specific advice to each student and communicate to the student writer, among other things, the criteria of good writing. A close look at the teacher's comments, therefore, reveals the criteria with which teachers measure student papers. This study builds a dialogue between teachers of writing in China and America on what "good writing" is, revealing the fact that "good writing" resides not just with student texts, but with the teachers who read and judge student papers.
Lonely Planet phrasebooks and Anthony Garnaut
Helps to enrich your experience by chatting to the locals. This title features practical grammar chapter that gets you started on the right foot. It includes the essential words and phrases, in Mandarin characters and pinyin (latin alphabet).
Caroline C. Leighton
First person account of Western travel. Between 1865 and 1881 the author travelled extensively along the northwest coast describing localities, natural history, native customs and missionary activities. Her comments on the Chinese community in San Francisco are particularly interesting.
Gail Tsukiyama
On the eve of the Second World War, a young Chinese man is sent to his family's summer home in Japan to recover from tuberculosis. He will rest, swim in the salubrious sea, and paint in the brilliant shoreside light. It will be quiet and solitary. But he meets four local residents - a lovely young Japanese girl and three older people. What then ensues is a tale that readers will find at once classical yet utterly unique. Young Stephen has his own adventure, but it is the unfolding story of Matsu, Sachi, and Kenzo that seizes your attention and will stay with you forever. Tsukiyama, with lines as clean, simple, telling, and dazzling as the best of Oriental art, has created an exquisite little masterpiece.
Carl Amery [i.e. C. Mayer
Seit Jahrhunderten verfolgt eine geheime Abteilung des Vatikans — so geheim, daß nicht einmal der Papst offiziell! von ihr Kenntnis nimmt — ihren „Großen Plan“: die Beseitigung der Glaubensspaltung. Mit Hilfe der MYST, einer nach Plänen von Leonardo da Vinci konstruierten Zeitmaschine, werden tapfere Schweizergardisten in die Vergangenheit geschickt, um die Geschichte „nachträglich“ im Sinne des hl. Stuhls zu verändern. Der Gardist Füßli ist mit einer besonders heiklen Aufgabe betraut — dem „Königsprojekt“.