Product Description: Chinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo (1847–1898), whose story is a forgotten chapter in the struggle for equal rights in America...read more

Product Description: In 1969, millions of Chinese teenagers were forced from their homes in the city in order to live and work in the countryside as part of China's Cultural Revolution. The work was backbreaking and rations were tight, but Sasha Gong has fond memories of learning to make simple, delicious country cooking...read more

Product Description: This attractive, illustrated Mandarin Chinese phrasebook for travelers has been updated and re-designed. Perfect as a take-along guide for visitors to the Far East, it features city maps, information on public transportation systems, general information for visitors to China, and bilingual lists of more than 1,500 most-often-used words and expressions for travelers, in the form of phonetic spellings of Mandarin words with their English translations...read more

Product Description: This language phrasebook presents more than 1,500 Chinese expressions with translations to help English-speaking travelers get around in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other travel sites. The newly revised edition has been improved with more attractive and useful city maps, availability of ATMs, faxes, and other modern facilities in far-away cities and towns, and much more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Here is a handy language helper for English-speaking travelers. A bilingual phrasebook is combined with a 90-minute cassette featuring simplified bilingual dialogues in Chinese and English. An accompanying transcript booklet contains printed versions of the tape's dialogues...read more

An updated guide to business dealings in China discusses cultural differences and gives examples of etiquette and manners for the visitor and native that never change, regardless of the nation's political climate. Original. (view table of contents)

Discusses cultural difference and gives examples on etiquette, and manners for the visitor and the native that never change, regardless of the political climate

Offers English equivalents for more than two thousand Chinese key words and provides useful expressions for banking, shopping, asking directions, obtaining a hotel room, and finding medical care