Small Children Learning Chinese Vocabulary I

Barcode: 58923416 Call Number: FR-CHI Shu Material Type: Print Language: Chinese - Mandarin Creator: Xiao Shu Description: Elementary level learning vocabulary in Chinese and English, aided with pictures. Collection: Language Resource Center

Small Children Learning Chinese Vocabulary II

Barcode: 58923414 Call Number: FR-CHI Shu Material Type: Print Language: Chinese - Mandarin Creator: Xiao Shu Description: Elementary level learning Chinese vocabulary, aided with pictures. Collection: Language Resource Center

Small Children Learning Math in Chinese

Barcode: 58923413 Call Number: FR-CHI Shu Material Type: Print Language: Chinese - Mandarin Creator: Xiao Shu Description: Elementary level learning math in Chinese. Collection: Language Resource Center

Small Children Learning Pinyin

Barcode: 58923411 Call Number: FR-CHI Shu Material Type: Print Language: Chinese - Mandarin Creator: Xiao Shu Description: Elementary level learning pinyin Collection: Language Resource Center

Small Children Learning Poems, Puzzles in Chinese

Barcode: 58923415 Call Number: FR-CHI Shu Material Type: Print Language: Chinese - Mandarin Creator: Xiao Shu Description: Elementary level learning poems, puzzles in Chinese aided with pictures. Collection: Language Resource Center

Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village

cover image Barcode: 58965957 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 58 mins Language: Chinese AND English Creator: Directed by Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton Description: "The documentary explores sexual politics in rural China with segments on love and marriage, foot-binding, child-bearing and birth control." Collection: Language Resource Center

Speak Mandarin Student's Workbook

Barcode: 58918067 Call Number: Mandarin Workbook Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook Language: Chinese - Mandarin Collection: Language Resource Center

Speak Mandarin Textbook

Barcode: 58918066 Call Number: Mandarin Textbook Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook Language: Chinese - Mandarin Description: "Presents the basic structural patterns of colloquial Mandarin. The vocabulary is used in a series of dialogues from everyday life. No Chinese characters are used in the text; the Yale romanization is used throughout and the student's attention is concentrated on the new sounds, words, and patterns of the language. The spoken language is written in polysyllabic "words", as they are normally spoken, and not as monosyllablic characters, which helps the students to acquire the ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Stolen Life = Sheng si jie

cover image Barcode: 58952587 Call Number: V-CHI 021 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 90 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Chinese - Mandarin Creator: Directed by Shaohong Li Description: When Yan'ni starts college she believes she is embarking on a new life away from her family-and she is, but not the new beginning she anticipates. Once at school, she immediately meets Muyu and falls in love with him. What she does not know is that from the moment he met her Muyu began an intricate deception that will lead to the loss of her child and t-he future she believes in. Collection: Language Resource Center

Stories for 130 Chinese Characters

Barcode: 58948440 Call Number: Chinese Textbook Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook Language: Chinese Description: The purpose of this book "Stories for 130 Chinese Characters" is to demonstrate how a new approach can be used in teaching and learning Chinese characters. For the past few years, I have been using a "story-telling" method when I teach student characters. Most Chinese characters have a "radical" plus some other "parts" or "components". The stories were created by combining (1) the "meaning" of the Chinese character, and (2) the ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Sunset Street

Barcode: 41100051 Call Number: L-AC36 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 100 min. Language: Chinese Description: Without great drama or heroic deeds, this is the portrayal of the lives of ordinary people in today's Beijing. Each has his/her own particular hopes, dreams, and problems. (Wang Haowei, 1983) Collection: Language Resource Center

Tea In Taiwan

Barcode: 41100008 Call Number: L-AC08 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 16 min. Language: Chinese Description: (Consulate Of The Republic Of China) Collection: Language Resource Center

The Blue Kite - Lan Feng Zheng

Barcode: 58918401 Call Number: L-AC76 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 138 min. Language: Chinese - Mandarin Creator: Zhuangzhuang Tian Description: On Dry Well Lane In Beijing In 1953, Chen Shujuan And Lin Shaolong Marry. A Year Later Their Son, Nicknamed Tietou (Iron Head), Is Born. The Party Is Everywhere: Mao's Photograph, Loud-Speaker Announcements, Visits From The Neighborhood Committee. Shaolong Dies In A Reform Camp; A Close Family Friend, Who Protects Shujuan And Her Son Partly Out Of Guilt For Lying To Authorities About Shaolong, Succumbs To Malnutrition; A Confrontation With The Red Guard Leads To Injury, Imprisonment And ... Collection: Language Resource Center

The Dull-Ice Flower

cover image Barcode: 58925163 Call Number: V-CHI 005 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 110 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 5 DVD Region: Language: Chinese - Mandarin Creator: Directed by Li-Guo Yang Description: Young art teacher Kou comes to the small town to teach. It’s small place but is very beautiful. Kuo notices that a young naughty boy Ming is very sensitive about colors and fulls of imagination. Ming’s painting is very colorful and interesting. However, most people still believe that imitation of reality is the best. Ming loses his mother when he is little. His father works on the tea field. One day Kou is responsible for picking up people who will compete at an art prize, he recommends ... Collection: Language Resource Center

The East is Red = Dongfang hong

cover image Barcode: 58955334 Call Number: V-CHI 033 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 125 min. System Requirements: NTSC DVD Region: Language: Chinese - Mandarin Creator: Directed by Ping Wang Description: The evolution of the People's Republic of China is told in this spectacular song and dance production, 'Dongfang hong' or 'The East is Red'. Vast, solemn, and glorifying the progress towards Communist victory, this cornucopia of purposeful entertainment, ostensibly presented in the Great Hall of the People, is pre-Cultural Revolution propaganda at its most lavish. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Family

Barcode: 41100030 Call Number: L-AC30 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 124 min. Language: Chinese Description: Adapted From The Novel By Pa Chin, The Story Takes Place Between 1916 And 1920, And Follows The Efforts Of A Feudal-Minded Patriarch To Control His Family's Personal Futures. (Chen Hsi-Ho, 1956) Collection: Language Resource Center

The First Emperor Of China

Barcode: 58917957 Call Number: L-AC28 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 30 min. Language: Chinese Description: In 1974 peasants digging a wall near Xian, China's ancient capital, unearthed fragments of a life-size terracotta statue of a warrior. The pottery soldier was discovered to be one of a small part of the huge tomb complex of the first emperor of china, Gin Shi Huang Di. In addition to chronicling the original excavation of the tomb and terracotta army, the bronze chariot and its subsequent restoration, this laserdisc offers a summary documentary of the life of Gin Shi Huang Di, an ... Collection: Language Resource Center

The Importance of Living

cover image Edition: Chinese Edition, 1st Edition Barcode: 58964234 Call Number: FR-CHI Yut Material Type: Print Language: Chinese Creator: Lin Yutang Description: This book is the companion piece of My Country and My People. The author conveys the Chineses optimistic and leisurely living style and the oriental romance and elegance to the western world, expecting to show a living model. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Last Emperor Of China- Pu Yi

Barcode: 41100071 Call Number: L-AC43 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 87 min. Language: Chinese Description: Documentary Film On The Life Of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi (1906-1967), The Last Emperor Of China. (Wang Xiushan, Hua Wen Film Co) Collection: Language Resource Center

The Make Believe Couple

Barcode: 41100003 Call Number: L-AC03 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 92 min. Language: Chinese Creator: Sang Hu Description: The plot concerns the mutual deception of a barber and a young widow with a child who each pretend to be rich in order to attract wealthy spouses. A Chinese version of a Hollywood 40s comedy. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Naval Battle of 1894 = Jia wu feng yun

cover image Barcode: 58964418 Call Number: V-CHI 080 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 95 min. Language: Chinese Creator: Directed by Nong Lin Description: On the 1894 Sino-Japanese War of this historic event, elevated to a high-ranking naval officer eulogized Deng Shichang, the Royal Marines, as well as other mighty heroes indomitable heroic spirit, thoroughly exposed the nature of imperialist aggression and money transfer starts decaying, exposed the Empress, Li Hongzhang, Fang Boqian's Being scum of the nation, such as the betrayal of the ugly face of glory. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Red Detachment of Women = 红色娘子军

cover image Barcode: 58964348 Call Number: V-CHI 078 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 92 min. System Requirements: All regions Language: Chinese Creator: Directed by Jin Xie Description: In 1930s, Wu Qionghua was a housemaid of Nan-ba-tian, a cruel warlord of a village in Hainan Island, China. Often abused by her master, Qionghua was finally rescued by Hong Changqing, leader of the Red Detachment of Women - a troop of women soldiers. She joined the troop and became the Detachment leader after the death of Hong. They captivated and executed the warlord and liberated Qionghua's home village. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Road Home

cover image Barcode: 58961169 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 89 min. Language: Chinese (Mandarin) Creator: Directed by Yimou Zhang Description: Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Sorrows and Joys of Middle Age

cover image Barcode: 58956565 Call Number: L-AC26-VH/N Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 106 min. Language: Chinese Description: Domestic tragicomic farce about the attempts to remarry by a widowed elementary school principal with two young kids. In its humane humour underscored with pathos, it gently examines the prejudices and shifting social values of China at the time. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Soy Sauce Incident - Jiang You Feng Bo

Barcode: 41100025 Call Number: L-AC25 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 30 min. Language: Chinese Description: A story about a soy sauce company's people and the village's people and how they both fight for their own gain. Originally produced as a TV program. Collection: Language Resource Center