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Synopsis
The author lived and worked in China for ten years. This amusing, affectionate and perceptive book provides a fascinating guide to this lively, sociable and friendly people and their complex and often contradictory society.
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About the Author
Kai Strittmatter would tell you that Chinese is one of the easiest languages in the world to speak. He has lived in Beijing as the correspondent of the German Süddeutsche Zeitung since 1997 and his articles have been collected in several books.
Review
'...this is a delightfully witty and insightful guide to today's China.' The Guardian 'A humourous and insightful study of life in China' WANDERLUST
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- PublisherHaus Publishing
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1904950809
- ISBN 13 9781904950806
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages316
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China: An A-Z
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The Armchair Traveller at the bookHaus, 2006
ISBN 10: 1904950809
ISBN 13: 9781904950806
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Condition: Very Good. A user's guide to the next global superpower Translator(s): Tobler, Stefan. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 442. A user's guide to the next global superpower Translator(s): Tobler, Stefan. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 442. Some minor shelf wear, dustwrapper. 2006. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # KTK0099337
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China: An A-Z
Published by
The Armchair Traveller at the bookHaus, 2006
ISBN 10: 1904950809
ISBN 13: 9781904950806
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
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Condition: Very Good. A user's guide to the next global superpower Translator(s): Tobler, Stefan. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 442. A user's guide to the next global superpower Translator(s): Tobler, Stefan. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 442. Some minor shelf wear, dustwrapper. 2006. Hardcover. . . . . Seller Inventory # KTK0099337
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China: An A-Z.
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ISBN 10: 1904950809
ISBN 13: 9781904950806
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Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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316pp, excellent hardback copy in dustjacket. 17 x 12cm. All Chinese look the same, some say and the same goes for Americans. How much do we really know about China? Did you know that they don't eat soup they drink it? And not before, but after a meal? That their surname comes before their first name? That their good sense is to be found not in their heads, but their hearts? Or that white is the color of mourning? Kai Strittmatter has lived in China for almost ten years and in this fascinating book he lets us in on a few secrets. Introducing us to some telling Chinese symbols-but not all 57,000 of them! -he explains in a wealth of charming, amusing anecdotes what they reveal of China and its people. On the way we meet pensioners who practice the art of street calligraphy, read the Beijing police's hilarious English phrasebook and have the dubious pleasure of sampling trendy 'Western' food, as well as a hundred other surprises. Seller Inventory # 172439
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