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#1 Choice for 3rd-year and 4th-year College Chinese. With free video clips and audio downloads. Written by professors from top Universities in the U.S. In simplified and traditional characters. In this new edition, we kept the topics of the first eleven lessons from the previous version but made small modifications to the dialogues and texts so they are more up to date and relevant. Three new topics are added: Ordinary People and Children of the Elite (Lesson 4), Democracy and the Modern Life (Lesson 6) and Influence of Contemporary Arts (Lesson14). This made both Part 1 and Part 2 of this new edition contain seven topics. Adding these three new lessons allows students to discuss more current topics. It also better distributes the amount of new vocabulary across each lesson and creates new contexts for the students to review and practice them. In Part 2, the 7 topics are: Leftover Population in the Marriage Market, Studying Abroad and Emigrating, Chinese Idioms and Chinese Cross Talks, Colloquial Idioms and Satirical Rhymes, Health and Gastronomy, From Revolution Songs to Pop Music and The Influence of Arts. Notes of reviewed vocabulary from previous lessons are added to the listening dialogues, reading texts, sample sentences and workbook exercises. This will make it easier for students to preview and review each lesson. At the same time, it will give instructors flexibility to select or shuffle the lessons to best fit their needs. We also included the transcripts of the dialogues at the end of the listening section and added more speaking activities related to the students'' daily life. We also filmed a skit for each lesson to teach action verbs and narrative abilities and added warm-up activities, culture notes and authentic materials to each topic. In the workbook, vocabulary exercises are given in chunks to help students review vocabulary in corresponding stages. Exercises in Chinese characters are also given to help student memorize them more systematically and to strengthen their concept of character-based lexicon learning.

This book uses corpus analysis and experimental methods to examine the structural characteristics and cognitive mechanisms of Chinese-English code-switching. It also compares the syntactic and pragmatic features of code-switching in children and adults. The title unveils the fascinating mechanics behind Chinese-English code-switching. Drawing on real language examples and cognitive experiments, it explores the hidden rules that govern mixed speech and shows how bilinguals navigate two languages at once. By comparing the different ways in which children and adults switch code, the author sheds new light on bilingual development and the social functions of Chinese-English code-switching. Bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and practical application, the book offers valuable insights into bilingual education, natural language processing and cross-cultural communication. It will be invaluable for researchers and professionals in linguistics, bilingual education, and language technology.

The subject matter of this paper concerns the natural price barriers that markets encounter. The ideas in this paper can be applied to any market: equity, commodity, currency or fixed income. It is common market experience that prices (or yields) exhibit resistance and support: at key levels there is a tendency for prices to show difficulty in progressing further, something which is not explained by popular random walk models. Some resistance and support prices are very strong while some are weak. If the resistance price or the support price is not strong, then the market price might go through this key level. If the resistance or the support is very strong, then the market price might simply be reflected back. We give examples of modeling support and resistance levels. We show how it is possible for the random behaviour of prices to behave almost like a lognormal random walk (say for stock prices) and yet for there to be a far richer structure for the asset price behaviour over small scale movements.

With modem society paying increasing attention to environmental issues to address sustainability, archaeological data offer a promising source to support the study of ancient culture-landscape relationships from a comparative perspective. China, as a country with an extensive cultural tradition and diverse topographic environment, provides an ideal case to study cultural responses to climate change. Based on extensive published archaeological survey data for northern China, this thesis describes a GIS based spatial analysis aimed at understanding cultural responses to Holocene climate changes. These responses are studied from the joint perspectives of changes through time in archaeological site distributions and their interactions with the local topographic conditions.