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| | Chinese * The Book of Leadership and... |
 | | Pimsleur Chinese Mandarin I. From " Pimsleur ". | | | An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings. | | | Chinese Brush Painting How to Draw and Paint series 233. |
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| | Standard Mandarin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most Chinese (Beijingers included) speak Standard Mandarin with elements of their own dialects (i.e. | | | The grammar of Standard Mandarin is standardized to the body of modern works written in Vernacular Chinese, which in practice follows the tradition of the Mandarin group of dialects most closely with some notable exceptions. | | | In implementation, however, standard Mandarin is sometimes given the aura of the "only right language", and other languages or dialects, both Chinese and non-Chinese, have shown signs of greatly losing ground to standard Mandarin, to the chagrin of many local culture proponents. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Mandarin
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| | Difference between Cantonese and Mandarin |
| | Therefore to say that Cantonese is an slang form of Mandarin, a local corruption--as is implied by Chinese linguistic policy and prevailing terminology--is not only biased but misleading. | | | As a result, I have written this essay to elucidate these differences, mainly by discussing the linguistic relationship of the minority dialect Cantonese to the prevailing dialectical and cultural backdrop, Mandarin. | | | This class contains substitutions in which the Cantonese and Mandarin are two sets of different multicharacter expressions. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/~sngai/cant-mandarin.htm
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| | INDO-EUROPEAN EXPANSIONS AND GLOBALIZATION OF ENGLISH |
| | Mandarin Chinese (viz., the Beijing dialect), which became the Chinese official language during the Yuan dynasty in the 13 | | | The dominant language in the world system (e.g., English) or within a larger region (e.g., Mandarin Chinese) influences the languages in the periphery while also being influenced by the latter to a lesser degree. | | | Mandarin Chinese heads the Sino-Tibetan language family, followed by Wu (85 million), Yue or Cantonese (70 million), Min-nan (55 million), Xiang (48 million), Hakka (35 million), Burmese (33 million), Gan (20 million), and Min-bei (12 million). |
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http://www.mnstate.edu/gunarat/languages.htm
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| | Chinese Culture - Chinese Opera |
| | The main features of Chinese Opera are a spectacle of song and dance which, together with the colorful costumes, make-up, acrobats, jesters, storytellers, acting, poetry and martial arts combine to present the Opera in a very attractive way. | | | Chinese opera has little in common with Western opera, and the screeching falsetto of the singers, the loud clacking of the clappers and the noisy banging of drums and cymbals can sound strange to Western ears. | | | In the 19th Century the Opera was dominated by a form called Peking Opera featuring colorful costumes, elaborate make up, facial expressions and was spoken and sung in Mandarin dialect. |
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http://www.west-meet-east.com/opera.htm
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| | Mandarin (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Until the mid-20th century, most Chinese living in southern China did not speak any Mandarin. | | | Most Chinese living in a broad arc, from the north-east (Manchuria) to the south-west (Yunnan), use various Mandarin dialects as their home language. | | | Instead, when asked to describe the spoken form they are using, Chinese speaking a form of Mandarin will describe the variant that they are speaking, for example Sichuan dialect or Northeast China dialect, and may not recognize that it is in fact classified by linguists as a form of "Mandarin". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_(linguistics)
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| | Talk:Mandarin (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mandarin was only made the official language in the 1920's, and before then one could argue that the official language of China was classical Chinese. | | | Mandarin Chinese uses the sounds of Beijing, but it's a mistake to say that it is based on Beijing dialect. | | | I am still tinkering a bit with the maps that show the extend of Mandarin (or the 3 Mandarins), and with the chart that shows the "family tree" of the Chinese language(s). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mandarin
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| | October 2000 EALL Newsletter ::: EALL Online |
| | While teaching a full load of classes, he will also be working on his dissertation "Event Conceptualization and Syntactic Realization: The Case of Motion in Mandarin Chinese." | | | Chengzhi Chu, Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Language, presented his paper on "The semantics of Mandarin preposition XIANG -- a cognitive approach" at the 12th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics at San Diego State University, California, June 2000. | | | "New Perspectives on Certain Reduplications in Mandarin and Taiwanese," at the First International Conference on Topics in Chinese Syntax, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Peoples Republic of China, December 1999 |
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http://www.hawaii.edu/eall/nl/200010nl.htm
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| | Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Min Nan |
| | Like most ethnic Chinese, whether from mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, or other parts of Southeast Asia, when writing Chinese, Min Nan speakers use Chinese characters as in Standard Mandarin, although there are a number of special characters which are unique to Min Nan and sometimes used in informal writing (as is the case with Cantonese. | | | Min Nan is mutually intelligible with neither Northern Min, Cantonese, nor Mandarin, the official Chinese language, spoken (at least as a second language) by the majority of those in mainland China and Taiwan, as well as large numbers of overseas Chinese. | | | The Min languages/dialects are part of the Chinese language group, itself a member of the Sino-Tibetan language family. |
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http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref/index.php?title=Min_Nan
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| | Oakland fourth-grader finds success in ancient Chinese art form |
| | The 9-year-old, growing up in a city more notable for its tough streets than its touches of culture, is bringing crowds to their feet around the San Francisco Bay area with his uncanny ability to sing in Mandarin Chinese. | | | Beijing opera, one of many forms of Chinese opera, is a centuries-old art form that blends highly stylized dancing, acting, acrobatics and pitched singing that westerners might find jarring. | | | Once a dominant form of art and entertainment in China, Chinese opera's popularity has steadily declined. |
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/02/04/state/n144752S21.DTL
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| | Reflections: Chinese Culture and Adopted Children |
| | I want my child to be proud of her Chinese heritage, but I question the value of expending a lot of effort to maintain it. | | | As both a Chinese-American adult adoptee and the adoptive parent of a Chinese daughter, I find this debate to be interesting. | | | While we are fascinated by the Chinese culture (and grateful that we will have a shot at parenthood thanks to this process), our goal will be to expose our daughter to our family's local traditions and the traditions of many world cultures, not just those of China. |
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http://www.night.net/rosie/culture.html
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| | Journal V.1-27 |
| | James H-Y. Tai: A derivational constraint on adverbial placement in Mandarin Chinese | | | Edwin G. Pulleyblank: The nature of the Middle Chinese tones and their development to Early Mandarin | | | Toshinobu: Dong Tong-he ‘shang-gu Yin-yun Biao-gao’ Suo-yin, and Zhou: A pronouncing dictionary of Chinese characters in Archaic and Ancient Chinese, Mandarin and Cantonese (Lin) |
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http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~jcl/IndexArticles.html
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| | Culture of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The fact this debate exists is not only for political and unity reasons, but also partly due to the fact that Chinese is a character-based analytical language, where although one who speaks Mandarin cannot understand someone that speaks Cantonese, they can understand by writing to each other. | | | Early Chinese music was based on percussion instruments, which later gave way to string and reed instruments. | | | Twentieth-century Chinese art was heavily influenced by the New Culture Movement, which adopted Western techniques, introduced oil painting and employed socialist realism. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_culture
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| | Chinese Translation services by Chinadocument.com |
| | In the early 1900s a program for the unification of the national language, which is based on Mandarin, was launched; this resulted in Modern Standard Chinese. | | | All the Chinese languages share a common literary language (wen-yen), written in characters and based on a common body of literature. | | | These languages include Mandarin in the northern, central, and western parts of China; Wu, Northern and Southern Min, Kan, Hakka, and Hsiang; and Cantonese (Yüeh) in the southeastern part of the country. |
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http://www.chinadocument.com
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| | 51-75.erd |
| | The Chinese instruments used in the ensemble, the two-stringed fiddles tehyan, kongahyan, and sukong are still very popular in southern Hokkien (Mandarin: Fujian) which is where most Paranakan Chinese' ancestors are from and in Taiwan, across the strait from Fujian. | | | There are hundreds of qupai in Chinese music some of which have texts and some instrumental. | | | All the papers by Chinese scholars were presented in Chinese; about 10 foreign scholars gave papers, most with running translations by Tsao Pen-yeh, myself, or the official interpreter provided by the organizers, who also provided translations during question and answer sessions for the duration of the conference. |
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http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Newsletters/EthnoMusicology/Digest/51-75.erd
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| | Learning Chinese Tutorial Software and Books |
| | Chinese LearnWare is a learning Mandarin Chinese program that starts at the very first lesson. | | | In Chinese literary history, there were certain periods which were dominated by one distinctive predominant literary genre, such as "fu" (descriptive prose interspersed with verse) during the Han Dynasty, poetry in Tang, "Ci" poetry (a special poetic form) of Song and "qu" (singing verse) of Yuan. | | | The Book of Songs has over a long period of times been highly appreciated, and has exerted a profound and far-reaching influence on the development of Chinese literature, especially that of poetry, over a period of more than 2000 years. |
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http://www.abc-chinese.com/
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| | Chinese Character Sets |
| | Although the written languages started with basically the same characters (even though they have evolved differently over time), pronunciations for the same character is different for: Mandarin (pinyin), Cantonese, Taiwanese, Mandarin, Xiang, Gan, Hakka, Wu, Fujianese, and Cantonese groups. | | | Chinese characters may appear on Web pages as images (gif or jpeg) or special character sets. | | | Chinese characters may also be activated by other tags such as HTML, P and FONT. |
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http://www.geocities.com/dtmcbride/tech/charsets/chinese.html
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| | Chinese language (page 3) Antimoon Forum |
| | Mandarin Chinese (known as Han Yu in China) has a great number of dialects. | | | Mandarin Chinese is only one of the many languages spoken in PRC because the Chinese nation includes more than 50 national minorities besides the Hans and different minority areas use different languages. | | | Wu wrote: To be exact, the so-called Mandarin is known as Han Yu (which means the Han Language) in China, because it used to be spoken exclusively by the Hans in ancient times. |
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http://www.antimoon.com/forum/posts/6507-3.htm
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| | lfgbib.text |
| | V-qilai constructions in Mandarin Chinese: A study of their semantics and syntax. | | | Mandarin Chinese NP de -- A Comparative Study of Current Grammatical Theories. | | | Mandarin Chinese and the lexical mapping theory -- a study of the interaction of morphology and argument changing. |
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http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bib/lfgbib.text
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| | Chinese Theatre Circle |
| | CTC attained greater heights with its presentation of "Madam White Snake" in Mandarin in April 2001 followed by its presentation of "Chinese Opera in Malay" in August 2001. | | | Established in 1981, the Chinese Theatre Circle (CTC) has been promoting the art of Chinese Opera, dance and music locally & overseas. | | | CTC made its debut in the Arts Education Programme in 1995 under the auspices of National Arts Council and has since visited more than 100 schools and junior colleges, presenting talks, demonstrations and performances of Chinese Opera to more than 200,000 students. |
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http://ctcopera.com.sg/ctc.html
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| | The Study Abroad Information Source |
| | Unification of the Chinese dialects began in the early 1900's, after which Modern Standard Chinese, based on Mandarin, emerged. | | | In Mandarin Chinese, verbs and adjectives generally have one character, while nouns usually consist of two, three, or more characters (syllables). | | | China's dialects are regional: Mandarin in the northern, central and western parts of China; Cantonese in the southeastern part of the country, and Wu and Northern and Southern Min, Kan, Hakka, and Hsiang. |
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http://www.studyabroad.com/LOM/chinese.html
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| | PROTO-LANGUAGE 4 |
| | 1) According to them, Mandarin Chinese "is a language in which 'subject' is not a clearly definable notion". | | | In Mandarin Chinese, the Verb is the center of the sentence. | | | In spite of this characteristic of Mandarin Chinese, Adjectives (and Relative Clauses) always precede their Nouns; these are established characteristics of OV languages. |
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http://www.mega.nu:8080/protolanguage/ProtoLanguage-4.htm
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| | China Link, links about china, chinese, Culture, Art, History, Language and Travel |
| | China Link, links about china, chinese, Culture, Art, History, Language and Travel | | | +++ Email a name or symbol in Chinese calligraphy, 15 writing styles, as tattoo draft, gift,... | | | National Council of Associations of Chinese Language Schools |
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http://www.chinaposter.de/links.html
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| | Amazon.com: Instant Immersion Mandarin Chinese Deluxe: Software |
| | I bougth this Set after 2 months of intensive chinese mandarin lessons, and it was hard for me to understand the method used by this software to teach mandarin. | | | This is a great software to learn Chinese. | | | Wow, that may work for someone experienced in Chinese, but for a total beginner like me I have no criteria or hints as to what one to choose first, and when I choose one at random, I'm lost in the lesson. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AFVEO/categories-20?dev-t=D3E49ECS9E0KO&camp=2025&link_code=xm2
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| | Yin & Yang and the I Ching |
| | These existed in T'ang Chinese, but have been lost in Mandarin. | | | Now, however, a new source (Lynn Pan, The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas, Harvard, 1999) lists ten languages, where Jin is separated from Mandarin, Hui from Wu, and Pinghua from Yue. | | | Mandarin only has four now, but Cantonese has six, or even nine if the tones of finals that end in stops are counted separately, which they sometimes are. |
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http://www.friesian.com/yinyang.htm
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| | ec.txt |
| | At this juncture I must admit that, by Traditional Chinese we usually mean Chinese (Mandarin)-speaking church leaders with ancestral roots in China, but who have lived much of their lives in Taiwan and Hong Kong (and in some instances, Southeast Asia). | | | Other Ethnic Chinese are modern, with a tendency to move toward postmodern cultur. | | | The ABC men have adopted to the traditional Chinese church and community (the pastor drives his wife to practice Cantonese opera!); the Chinese wives, on the other hand, have adopted to their husbands Americanized lifestyle. |
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http://www.aaministry.org/cac/articles/ec.txt
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| | Oriental : Export : All Items on Ruby Lane |
| | Each has a hand painted floral and bird design, reminiscent to Rose Medallion or Rose Mandarin. | | | Chinese export porcelain bird enameled in a sancai scheme with bird of turquoise body, on a rock and vine perch painted green. | | | Chinese export porcelain bird with brown body and brown yellow and white feathers perched on green rock and vine stump. |
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http://search.rubylane.com/search/,id=55.3.html
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| | Golden Age Antiques Antiques,Regional Art,Asian,Chinese Directory |
| | This is a beautiful early Chinese Porcelain Rose Mandarin Bowl. | | | This is an early, unique Chinese Porcelain Famille Rose footed tray. | | | This is a beautiful pair of early Chinese Porcelain. |
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http://www.trocadero.com/goldenage/catalog/Antiques:Regional_Art:Asian:Chinese.html
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| | SkyscraperCity Forums - Even Hangul is a copy from Japan |
| | Aforementioned Tungus Fuyo (夫余) was a nation dominated Manchuria, North China, Korea and Mongolia and the Chinese Yin Dynasty was a tributary country of this Fuyo until Zhou Dynasty destroys Yin. | | | For example only the vocabularies came into Japan via the Chinese characters (Kanji: there are two types of pronounciations, one from Japanese and another from Chinese borrowings) are from China. | | | This is what I want to argue that Hangul could have been based on Ahiru of Proto Japan Alphabets. |
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http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=209740
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