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Chinese Proverbs Illustrated
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Chinese Proverbs Illustrated

BookHardcover
Ranking1961inReligion
CHF54.90

Description

This illustrated gift edition includes proverbs in both Chinese and English in a traditional Chinese binding. Chinese Proverbs Illustrated features a selection of the most famous and most interesting of the more than 5,000 Cheng-yu. Alongside the phrase is an accessible and inspiring explanation, its literal translation in English, what the particular strokes symbolize, and its various uses, as well as more than 80 images to complement the text.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-83886-369-2
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publishing date14/04/2024
SeriesChinese Bound
Pages160 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 200 mm, Height 266 mm, Thickness 34 mm
Weight1192 g
Illustrations90 logograms and 90 illustrations; 180 Illustrations, unspecified
Article no.50958140
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.45602519
Product groupReligion
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James Trapp is the author of Chinese Characters: The Art and Meaning of Hanzi and Chinese Proverbs: The Wisdom of Cheng-Yu, and he has translated a bestselling new multilingual edition of Sun Tzu's The Art of War. A Chinese language graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, he teaches Mandarin and was previously an education officer on the China Collection at the British Museum.