Isbn: 9780802779137 - Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language (29 results)

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Deborah Fallows has spent a lot of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin--China's most common language--or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying learning the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering behavior and habits of its people, and its culture's conundrums. As her skill with Mandarin increased, bits of the language--a word, a phrase, an oddity of grammar--became windows into understanding romance, humor, protocol, relationships, and the overflowing humanity of modern China.Fallows learned, for example, that the abrupt, blunt way of speaking which Chinese people sometimes use isn't rudeness, but is, in fact, a way to acknowledge and honor the closeness between two friends. She learned that English speakers' trouble with hearing or saying tones--the variations in inflection that can change a word's meaning--is matched by Chinese speakers' inability not to hear tones, or to even take a guess at understanding what might have been meant when foreigners misuse them.Dreaming in Chinese is the story of what Deborah Fallows discovered about the Chinese language, and how that helped her make sense of what had at first seemed like the chaos and contradiction of everyday life in China.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. light wear very clean book------------tales of China, its language and people.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First US Edition. book and dj have minor wear, bookstore sticker on back cover, 207 pages, stories of learning to speak Chinese Size: 5.25 x 8.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fourth printing. Inscribed by the author on title page. A well kept copy with traces of wear to bottom corners; otherwise book appears brand new. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket - full red paper over boards with black lettering stamped on spine. Glossy illustrated DJ. Sewn binding. 205 pages. 1st Edition, 4th Printing. CONDITION: Book FINE, binding square and tight, pages bright and unmarked; DJ FINE, not clipped. CONTENT: "Deborah Fallow's sparkling memoir of her three years in China makes us feel we are on the streets with her in Shanghai and Beijing -- haggling with merchants and cops and learning to be rude and friendly, Chinese-style. The joy of this book is its sense of humor and adventure. I can't think of a better book for someone who wants to understand the lovable, infuriating, and hilarious county that is China." - David Ignatius. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Walker & Co., New York, 2010.FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. As new. Unread. Pristine.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 7.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.