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Withered Flowers

By: Wen Shaoxian

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Withered Flowers reflects the whole process of the Socialist Education Movement, also called “four clean-ups” movement, in the early sixties. Mao Zedong intended to use the Socialist Education Movement to strike at his political enemies, the capitalist-roaders. However, the movement met with strong resistance from Mao’s political opponents and thus it ended up in failure. The novel, through vivid, faithful and in-depth description of the complete progress of the Socialist Education Movement step by step, succeeds in presenting to the readers a panorama of the Chinese socialist countryside at that time. It also brings to light a full picture of how the work teams dispatched by the Communist Party committees at various levels ruthlessly persecute the ordinary production team cadres, and the miserable and tragic lot of the daughters and daughters-in-law of the former landlords and rich peasants. The Socialist Education Movement was a historical period not to be ignored during Mao’s twenty-seven-year rule over China. As its scale was so large, its time was so long, its struggle was so relapsing and its targets of struggle were so vast in number, it was only next to the Cultural Revolution. That people have not attached due importance to it is because the countless people who were hurt and seriously humiliated in the movement were the insignificant production team cadres. As a matter of fact the Cultural Revolution may be regarded as the continuation of the Socialist Education Movement whereas the Socialist Education Movement, the skirmish of the Cultural Revolution. There has never been a literary work that so systematically and fully reflects the Socialist Education Movement so far, and thus this novel is all the more rare and valuable.

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9628687387

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Working Wonders

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Working Wonders

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Working Wonders, the second book of Fragrant Port trilogy, tells of the story of how some orphans, survivors of the World War II, overcome all kinds of difficulties and hardships and succeed in initiating their business undertakings in post-War times. Swan Ko, grandson of Third Sister, Brown’s former amah, becomes an orphan after the War. He starts from working as a child laborer. Then he cooperates with a HK British company and invents the multi-layer contractor system, which lays down the foundation of the building industry of Hong Kong at the beginning of the 1960s when it begins to vigorously develop. Swan’s ambition is to surpass the Hong Kong British firms financially in order to bring credit to the Hong Kong Chinese. During the revolt of the Leftists in 1967, he employs the tactics of ‘buying in while others deserting’ and buys in large quantities of land and premises at low prices. During the very flourishing stock market period in 1972-73, he issues new stocks for a number of times to raise sufficient funds so that his company can develop by leaps and bounds. During the serious stock disaster in 1974-75, he continues to buy in large amounts of land for building and old buildings at low prices. After having accumulated strength silently and secretly for about 20 years in this way, he finally defeats Hong Kong Real Estate Co., Ltd., the number one century-old HK British land developing company, winning the bid for the right to develop the upper roof of the Grand Wharf in Central. This brilliant feat amazes the public and he is thus well-known overnight. On the other hand, Brown’s Watton & Co., Ltd. merges with Whymper Docks after having undergone radical ups and downs in the political and economic crises during this period. The merger company, however, is still unable to extricate itself from financial difficulties. With the assistance of Lora, his wife, Swan succeeds in purchasing the firm. Swan becomes the first Hong Kong Chinese who takes over a traditional Hong Kong British big firm. Thus, the traditional Hong Kong British companies’ monopoly of the economy of Hong Kong for more than a century is broken. Swan’s love experience is also varied with twists and turns. Lydia Lee, a half-breed, Swan’s primary schoolmate, close partner in initiating their undertakings and girlfriend, suddenly turns out to be his elder sister of the same father with different mothers, while Lora Hocking, who has one-sided love for him secretly, is discovered to be Lydia’s younger sister of the same mother with different fathers. She is found to be the illegitimate daughter of Mark Cooper, taipan of Whymyer Docks. As a matter of fact, these relations are fabricated by some people designed to cover up a past tragedy created by the older generations. The background time of the novel is set from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to 1982, some time before the British and Chinese governments began talks on the future of Hong Kong. During this period there were the Korean War and US embargo on China in early 1950s, the revolt of the Leftists in 1967, the serious stock disaster in 1974-75, the world petroleum crises in 1974-75, and the world shipping industry crises in early 1980s.

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9881517826

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Rainbow Bridge

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Rainbow Bridge

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In October 2002, WHO of the United Nations listed China’s Great Leap Forward, the two world wars and Stalin’s purge movement as the three most disastrous events of mankind in the 20th century. Rainbow Bridge reflects the chaotic years of the “Three Red Banners” pursued by the Communist Party of China (CPC). The “Three Red Banners,” namely, the CPC’s General Line for Socialist Construction, the Great Leap Forward and the people’s communes, focally representing the radical economic line of the CPC in late 1950s to early 1960s. This line had pushed the Chinese national economy to the verge of collapse. The novel exposes the shaping, the complete process and the disastrous consequences of the “Three Red Banners” with the “Great Leap Forward” as the main episode, through continuing describing Simon Chan’s experience and his relations with the people of various strata around him. It faithfully depicts the unprecedented nation-wide great famine caused by the “Three Red Banners” in an all-round way. The great famine, which leads to the death of more than thirty millions of people, lasts for as long as three years. The genuine friendship between Simon and Phoenix fostered through weal and woe during that time, their subtle relations and the tragedy in which Phoenix, this innocent, artless and beautiful country girl, drowns herself in the Rainbow River as a protest against the ultra-Leftist line, are an exceptionally sad and touching story of the Great Leap Forward. The novel gives authentic and detailed descriptions of all these things. Rainbow Bridge is the first and the only novel that exclusively gives a vivid, authentic and all-round narration of the Great Leap Forward movement so far.

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9628687379

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Fragrant Forever

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Fragrant Forever

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Fragrant Forever is the third book of Fragrant Port trilogy. It reflects the situation wherein the Hong Kong British companies, the Hong Kong Chinese companies and the Mainland Chinese companies mix with each other, support each other and compete with each other during the 12-year transitional period after the signature of the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the question of Hong Kong’s return to China. With the assistance of the Hong Kong Chinese magnates such as Swan and the others, the Hong Kong British firms, which have decided to stay on in Hong Kong, manage to tide over their difficulties by carrying out extensive structural readjustment and integration of interests. On the other hand, Catherine Grey, a young girl coming to Hong Kong from England to seek opportunities in the transitional period, and Tony Ho, Brown’s former maidservant Sister Lotus’s grandson who returns to Hong Kong after having been entrapped in Mainland China for 17 years, join hands and pursue their aggressive career. They get married after struggling for a way out shoulder to shoulder for a period of time. With the help of Swan, they make use of Tony’s relationship in the Chinese mainland on the one hand, and make use of Catherine’s connections in England on the other, to do import and export business and help the enterprises from Mainland China and those from England to come into Hong Kong’s stock exchange market. As a result, they are rising rapidly and become a new business and financial magnate couple in Hong Kong in less then ten years. At the same time, the novel also describes the moving love story of Tony Ho and Platter Green, daughter of Denton Green, who was in charge of the pharmaceutical factory of Watton when Tony worked as an office boy at the factory in early 1960s. Now they meet again after 17-year separation. However, Tony has got married while Platter is still single. Finally, a plaintive and sentimental love triangle has developed. Catherine proposes a unique way to solve the problem. The background time of the novel is set from the talks on the question of Hong Kong by the British and Chinese governments at the end of 1982 to the hand-over of Hong Kong to China on July 1, 1997. Between this period, there were the deadlock during the subsequent talks in 1983, the signature of the Joint Declaration by the two governments on the question of Hong Kong in 1984, the Tian An Men Event in 4 June 1989, the 1992-1995 disputes between the British and Chinese governments over the proposed plan of reforming the political system of Hong Kong put forward by Christopher Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, and the Chinese side decides to go its own way, refusing to cooperate with the British side in this regard.

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9881517834

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Awful Catastrophe

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Awful Catastrophe

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Awful Catastrophe is designed to reflect the entire process of the most turbulent years in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. Awful Catastrophe employs two parallel developing threads: One to have the important political events in various periods run through the whole book, and the other to make various tragic stories of the characters develop by centering on the above political events throughout the novel. The two threads closely weave together as flesh and blood from beginning to end, setting off each other conspicuously, so as to enable the readers to have a strong sense of reality as if they placed themselves into the actual situation. It is a novel, of course, but one can also regard it as a history book about the Cultural Revolution in a certain sense. This book can be regarded as the walking encyclopedia of the Cultural Revolution. Concreteness and authenticity are the other characteristics that can make those writers who have no experience in the Cultural Revolution but want to write about it lose confidence and thus they might lay down their pen right away. During such a time of reversal, a lot of people were made fool of, many pure souls were stained with dust, many lofty ideas were shattered and the love between many lovers was strangled. The book also presents to the readers such things as distortion of human nature, inhumanity, ugly sides of human souls and so on. Simon Chan, the hero of the book, is a typical character of the Chinese intellectuals. His involvement in the torrential political waves to his missing precisely represents the tragic fate of the young intellectuals at that time. The novel, in addition to narrating every step of his political performance in this political storm in a deep going way, narrates his tender love and intimate relations with Flora and Gem with literary grace. The difference between this novel and the other literary works also reflecting the Cultural Revolution lies in the fact that it minutely narrates every step and the progress of the Cultural Revolution in a macroscopic and all-direction manner. It succeeds in depicting the very complicated relations among the characters from the high, medium and low strata in the most unbridled and most senseless days in this disastrous movement. No other literary works have been able to bring to light the complete picture of the Cultural Revolution so deep in length and so broad in scale so far in China or elsewhere in the world.

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9628687395

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Useful Chinese Words and Expressions, Book Three, with simplified Chinese example sentences

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Useful Chinese Words and Expressions, Book Three, with simplified Chinese example sentences

By: Wen Shaoxian

Useful Chinese Words and Expressions series is composed of twenty-one special topics, embracing all the most active and most commonly used Chinese words and expressions that are most often misused by people. Those learners with a better English knowledge are able to learn the essentials of Chinese easily and full of interest in the course of comparison and translation supported by the great amount of Chinese and English typical example sentences. This book has collected seven special topics as follows: Special Topic One Chinese Sentences with “搞” and English Relevant Words and Expressions Special Topic Two Chinese Directional Verbs and English Prepositions and Adverbs Special Topic Three Chinese Compound and Complex Sentences and their English Equivalents Special Topic Four Chinese Word Groups of Locality and English “There be… + Prepositional Phrase” Structure Special Topic Five Chinese Tense and English Tense Structure Special Topic Six Chinese Sentences with Consecutive-verb Word Groups and English Infinitive Special Topic Seven Comparison of Structures and Application between Chinese and English Interrogative Sentences

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9888174231

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Essentials of Modern Chinese, with simplified Chinese example sentences

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Essentials of Modern Chinese, with simplified Chinese example sentences

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In order to help foreign learners to learn the essentials of written Chinese more effectively, this book is compiled in a brand-new pattern and up-to-date manner. Meticulous work has been done to simplify the complicated framework of Chinese so that the English-speaking learners will find it easy to learn. The book, which consists of 18 chapters, discusses all the essentials of basic Chinese in a comprehensive and systematical way. Chinese auxiliaries, classifiers and word groups which so often puzzle the westerners, as well as the structures of Chinese sentences and the rules of their construction, are dealt with minutely by giving numerous illustrative sentences along with their English translation. Special paragraphs are devoted to comparison between Chinese and English where necessary. This book adopts the system of Chinese grammatical terms, definition and classification prevailing in various types of schools in China universally accepted by the Chinese people as a whole. Lastly, this book is designed to be a practical work for the foreign learners who have already mastered a certain number of Chinese words and expressions and the simple rules of Chinese grammar. It is suitable for work in class and for students or self-learners working on their own.

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9888174401

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Chinese Numerals and Classifers (traditional Chinese edition)

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Chinese Numerals and Classifers (traditional Chinese edition)

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The functions of Chinese numerals are in the main identical with those of English numerals. However, as Chinese numerals are closely associated with classifiers with which to form numeral-classifier compounds, they can only be fully understood when they are studied together with Chinese classifiers. Chinese classifiers are a very difficult problem for foreign learners to tackle, though it is not difficult to translate them into English. The fact that Chinese classifiers are difficult to master is because it concerns the usage peculiar to Chinese, but it doesn’t prevent foreign learners from understanding the meaning of the Chinese classifiers. What is difficult for them is how to use them correctly in their translation from E to C. The aim of this book is to tell the learners how to use Chinese classifiers correctly. In order to help the foreign learners to learn Chinese classifiers more handily and correctly, Appendix I: Classification of Chinese action classifiers and Appendix II: a detailed List of combination of Chinese classifiers and nouns, with more than 800 examples, are provided in this book.

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9888174479

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Chinese Sentence Patterns (traditional Chinese edition)

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Chinese Sentence Patterns (traditional Chinese edition)

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Having mastered the basic vocabulary and elementary grammar, a student generally learns to use a language that he wants to achieve mainly by practice in the sentence patterns, which are the living substance of the language. There are basic sentence patterns and special sentence patterns in Chinese. Most of the special sentence patterns involve word group patterns, adjective patterns, noun patterns, preposition patterns, etc. However, in English most sentence patterns are verb patterns. A large part of Chinese special sentence patterns are related to the predicate of the sentence, in which nouns, adjectives, word groups, etc play a part. Word groups are important elements forming the predicate of the sentence. Nouns and adjectives alone can also function as the predicate of the sentence. However, phrases (similar to Chinese word groups) as well as nouns and adjectives alone cannot function as the predicate of the sentence in English. In this book, six Chinese basic sentence patterns and twelve Chinese special sentence patterns are introduced, which cover all the most important and most commonly-used Chinese sentence patterns. This book will minutely illustrate them one by one with charts. They are classified in accordance with their functions in the sentence in a systematical way, along with necessary comparison with English sentence patterns and translation. When you have got a good command of the structures and usage of the Chinese sentence patterns introduced in this book, you are able to write or to speak standard Chinese more readily and fluently.

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9888174452

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Gas Thermohydrodynamic Lubrication and Seals

By: Bai Shaoxian,Wen Shizhu

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Gas Thermohydrodynamic Lubrication and Seals

By: Bai Shaoxian,Wen Shizhu

Gas Thermohydrodynamic Lubrication and Seals provides contemporary theory and methods for thermo-hydrodynamic lubrication analysis in the design of gas bearings and seals. The title includes information on gas state equations and gas property, derivation of gas thermohydrodynamic lubrication equations, the theory of isothermal gas lubrication, thermal gas lubrication of rigid surfaces, gas thermoelastic hydrodynamic lubrication of face seals, vapor-condensed gas lubrication of face seals, experimental methods, and the design of gas face seals. Readers will find state-of-the-art, practical knowledge based on fifty years of research and application. - Describes thermohydrodynamic lubrication analysis for the design of gas bearings and seals - Considers the increased operational speed, pressure and temperature of mechanical equipment in relation to gas bearings and seals - Describes multi-field coupled gas lubrication theory and analytical methods - Provides a model and detailed data on the lubricating properties of typical gas bearings and seals - Gives comprehensive coverage of the field based on a half-century of research and application

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0128172916

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Chinese Numerals and Classifiers (simplified Chinese edition)

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Steps to Elegant Translation from E to C (with illustrative sentences in simplified Chinese)

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Steps to Elegant Translation from E to C (with illustrative sentences in simplified Chinese)

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Most of the existing books about translation principles and techniques tend to lay special stress on tedious theoretical expositions, which is very abstract and uninteresting. Actually what most people need are practical translation technique books with elicitation methods, and such books with elicitation methods are helpful to them, i.e. helpful to most people. However, it is a pity that books of this kind have not been available so far. The author’s aim of writing this book is to remedy this lamentable situation with his practical experience gained from his teaching and translating work over the past several decades. The problem of translation techniques is mainly a problem of how to meet the three requirements, namely, “fidelity”, “fluency” and “elegance” put forward by Chinese ancient scholar Yan Fu. As a matter of fact, it is not difficult to basically meet these three requirements only if you have mastered the knack of doing translation provided for by this guide book. The compilation principle of this book is, by completely getting rid of those abstract, tedious, very dull and dry theoretical expositions as well as those grammatical terms difficult for people to understand, to sum up the most useful translation methods in a simple, concise and direct way, supported by a great number of meticulously selected typical example sentences for illustration, some of which are quoted from famous English and American literary works, in an attempt to pass on to the learners the knack of doing translation which they have never been told about. When you have mastered such a knack, you will find translation work a pleasure rather than a burdensome job. Steps to Elegant Translation from E to C is the first easy-to-learn practical guide book of this kind. Its targeted readers are those at intermediate English and Chinese level, including high school and college students. The book will directly help them to raise their translation proficiency effectively. To those who are interested in translation, this book can help them to easily solve their problems in connection with translation. To the professional translators and teachers teaching translation course, this book is of constructive referential value to them. Foreigners learning Chinese or learning translation from E to C with intermediate Chinese level will find it a substantial help to them.

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9888174428

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Gas Thermohydrodynamic Lubrication and Seals

By: Bai Shaoxian,Wen Shizhu

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Gas Thermohydrodynamic Lubrication and Seals

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Awful Catastrophe

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Useful Chinese Words and Expressions, Book Three, with simplified Chinese example sentences

Useful Chinese Words and Expressions, Book Three, with simplified Chinese example sentences

Essentials of Modern Chinese, with simplified Chinese example sentences

Essentials of Modern Chinese, with simplified Chinese example sentences

Chinese Numerals and Classifers (traditional Chinese edition)

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Chinese Sentence Patterns (traditional Chinese edition)

Chinese Sentence Patterns (traditional Chinese edition)

Gas Thermohydrodynamic Lubrication and Seals

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Chinese Numerals and Classifiers (simplified Chinese edition)

Chinese Numerals and Classifiers (simplified Chinese edition)

Steps to Elegant Translation from E to C (with illustrative sentences in simplified Chinese)

Steps to Elegant Translation from E to C (with illustrative sentences in simplified Chinese)

Gas Thermohydrodynamic Lubrication and Seals

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