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Contemporary Studies in Chinese Languages, Literature, and Culture 1 – ebook
Współczesne studia w językach chińskich, literaturze i kulturze, tom. 1 obejmują szeroki zakres treści, na który składają się teoretyczne i społeczno-kulturowe studia nad językiem chińskim, nauczaniem chińskiego jako języka obcego oraz chińskim literaturoznawstwem. Mają na celu dostarczenie czytelnikowi najnowszych wyników badań w sinologii. In the past decade, Chinese studies have flourished and,...Data dostępności:
Chinese Hunting – ebook
Anni Kylemehr
The story reminds a Hong Kong action movie. It starts from a Chinese policeman coming to Prague, Czech Republic, to arrest an international Russian hitman, Kalina. He meets an Interpol agent, who tries to catch a Japanese terrorist. Complications make them co-operate, recruiting into that team the Chinese policeman's partner, ex-hacker, who stayed in China. Travelling all over Europe the couple discovers...Data dostępności:
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The Chinese Parrot – ebook
Earl Derr Biggers
Earl Derr Biggers’ second Charlie Chan novel took the detective to the California desert where he uncovers the reason for the mysterious disappearance of a millionaire. Biggers was always a great romance writer who simply incorporated mystery into his books to propel the story forward. The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. Charlie Chan...Data dostępności:
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Dragonomics: Chinese dream of Silicon Valley. 40-year history of Shenzen Special Economic Zone. Case study – ebook
Marcin Lis Jolanta Maroń
Monografia ukazuje rolę Specjalnej Strefy Ekonomicznej Shenzen w transformacji ustrojowej Chin – jej niewątpliwy sukces określany jako „cud Shenzen” jest widoczny w wielu obszarach, a w szczególności w dynamicznym wzroście gospodarczym oraz w zmianach strukturalnych w gospodarce. Jak można przeczytać w recenzji autorstwa prof. dr hab. Krystyny Poznańskiej „(…) w podjętych rozważaniach Autorzy nie ograniczyli...Data dostępności:
Theoretical frameworks in the study of press advertisements: Polish, English and Chinese perspective – ebook
Adam Wojtaszek
Książka stanowi próbę poszerzenia metodologii badań nad reklamami prasowymi poprzez wypracowanie nowych modeli analizy tego szczególnego typu obrazowo-tekstowego artefaktu oraz wykazanie ich zasadności i przydatności w oparciu o obszerny korpus przykładów zaczerpnięty z prasy polskiej, brytyjskiej i chińskiej. Praca podzielona jest na trzy rozdziały, z których pierwszy stanowi wprowadzenie teoretyczne...Data dostępności:
Balancing Changes. Seventy Years of People’s Republic of China – ebook
The book offers a comprehensive overview of changes in Chinese society in the last seventy years, since the formation of the People’s Republic of China. Within its pages, several authors focus on Chinese policy, as to how China is perceived, its relations with other countries, and related topics, such as Chinese soft power. There are also valuable chapters that focus on the transformation of language,...Data dostępności:
Chop Suey Nation – audiobook
Ann Hui
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included - her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that...Data dostępności:
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The Complete Charlie Chan Series – ebook
Earl Derr Biggers
Charlie Chen – the hero of the detective series, owned by the pen of the American writer Earl D. Biggers. Biggers wrote about two dozen action stories and plays, but he has been preserved in the memory of many generations of readers primarily as the creator of the image of this handsome inspector, the immense thickness of a Chinese living in Honolulu, where he now has to deal with purely Chinese dexterity....Data dostępności:
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The way in the front – ebook
Feng Ping
It is a great pleasure to recommend to a Polish reader the literary debut of the Chinese student of the University of Warsaw (who studies International Relations). From the very first lectures which I held for the students of her year, Ms Feng Ping stood out as person showing keen interest in Poland and ready to discover the links which bring the Chinese and Poles closer together. I was also impressed...Data dostępności:
Stolen Idols – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A young adventurer steals two complimentary idols of Buddha from a Chinese temple, one of which is supposed to have a debasing and malevolent effect upon its owners. One of the idols represents the Body, and all of the corruption and evil of Mankind, the other represents the Soul, and all that is good. The Ballastons are a spendthrift aristocratic family threatened with the loss of their ancestral...Data dostępności:
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The Wallet of Kai Lung – ebook
Ernest Bramah
„The Wallet of Kai Lung” is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. These tales of an unlikely but marvelous China are classic works of fantasy, with each story holding a story-within-a-story. Ernest Bramah’s Kai Lung is a storyteller in an imagined China, telling tales of earnest examination...Data dostępności:
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Owen Clancy’s Happy Trail – ebook
Burt L. Standish
Such a heartbreaking story will appeal to everyone.It was just a tow-headed, cross-eyed youth who tried to find his father in Los Angeles. On Saturday evening, there was a festival for the Chinese, where a dragon twisted and twisted, under which there were a hundred people. Perhaps his father is there...Data dostępności:
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Rediscovered Michael Boym's Medical Manuscripts. A Part of Medicus Sinicus Found in Cracow – ebook
Edward Kajdański
I dedicate this short extract from Michael Boym’s Medical Key to those, who claim that the a.m. work was a translation from Chinese and that its authorship remains uncertain. From AuthorData dostępności:
Dr Nikola’s Experiment – ebook
Guy Boothby
Dr. Nicola invited Douglas Ingleby to help him in a mysterious experiment. Unemployed and undoubtedly curious, Ingleby agrees to follow Nikola to a remote castle to help him take care of the old man on the verge of death, Nicola is trying to perform a miracle. But will Ingleby’s loyalty to Nicolau withstand the contrary to the requests of the old man’s great granddaughter, will the experiment give...Data dostępności:
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The Silver Thorn – ebook
Hugh Walpole
This is an exciting collection of 15 stories. Indeed, there are some who are very good – there is a sad and exciting „Silly old fool” about a canon who believes that a woman cares for him, and „Engraving” sees how an obsessed husband goes against his wife’s desires, collecting engravings. Other great stories are Little Donkeys with Raspberry Saddles, gentle Chinese Horses about two women and a man,...Data dostępności:
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The Vintage of Yon Yee – ebook
Louise Jordan Miln
The novel is about a young woman of both English and Chinese descent, who must choose between lovers of both races, between East and West. Neither effort, nor suffering, nor experience can give perfection to any person, nor any race. Humanity, individual or herd, can only strive – never fully triumph or to fulfill. But there are separate people, there are different people: vintage masculinity, vintage...Data dostępności:
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Victory – ebook
Joseph Conrad
This is an exciting, atmospheric work that works on several levels: partly a story of tropical adventures, partly a melodramatic novel, partly a psychological thriller, partly a criticism of the empire. Axel Heist lives on an island in present-day Indonesia with a Chinese aide Wang. Heist visits a nearby island when a women’s group plays in a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg tries to impose...Data dostępności:
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Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree – ebook
Ernest Bramah
Ernest Brammah Smith is best-known for two series, the Max Carrados books about a blind detective, all of whose Perceptions are enormously enhanced, and a series of tales in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. This collection of eight Kai Lung stories came out in 1940, two years before the author’s death. They show the same wit as the...Data dostępności:
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Clung – ebook
Max Brand
Another great Western by Max Brand aka Frederick Faust, Clung is one his most memorable and intriguing characters. As a Western author, Brand did not shrink from controversial topics such as race relations in the Old West. There is a mystery about the birth of Clung, who is raised by an old Chinese man in a small Arizona town, but none about his skill with weapons. At first he shoots in self-defense,...Data dostępności:
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The Specimen Case – ebook
Ernest Bramah
Working name of UK author Ernest Brammah Smith (1868-1942) for all his writing; he is best-known for two series, the Max Carrados books about a blind detective, all of whose Perceptions are enormously enhanced, and a series of tales in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. At the height of his fame, Bramah’s mystery tales, featuring the...Data dostępności:
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