• This project has been shortlisted in the lighting design category of Dezeen Awards China 2023 . (dezeen.com)
  • On May 19, 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics released wage data for 2020, showing that wages in China increased despite the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic impacts. (china-briefing.com)
  • See our top 10 most read China stories of 2020, featuring fraudulent claims, the COVID-19 business impact, and NPD opportunities. (nutraingredients-asia.com)
  • On June 8, 2020, Read was named the next CEO of Vonage, a business cloud communications provider. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2018, RWI and China Dialogue co-organised a roundtable on "Sound Chemicals Management Beyond 2020: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities for China and Sweden" in collaboration with the Embassy and with the participation of the UN Special Rapporteur on Hazardous Substances and Waste, Baskut Tuncak. (lu.se)
  • https://www.chp.gov.hk/files/pdf/local_situation_covid19_en.pdf [accessed 17 April 2020]. (who.int)
  • Using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), the current study investigates the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the student questionnaire (PIRLS-SQCV 2011) and identifies its underlying factor structure among Chinese fourth-grade pupils in Hong Kong. (hindawi.com)
  • To assess culturally specific reading-learning model, Hong Kong has participated in this international study since the Curriculum Reform 2001, in which "Reading to Learn" is one of the Four Key Tasks in the Curriculum Reform as an entry point for achieving learning goals and developing pupils' competence which is also the foundation for life-long learning [ 2 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Our research team in Hong Kong modified the original PIRLS tool and altogether developed two Chinese questionnaires for use in Hong Kong, one for the home factors and one for the student. (hindawi.com)
  • China Literature, Tencent's subsidiary and the country's largest online publishing company, recently filed to go public in Hong Kong, aiming to raise as much as $800 million for potential acquisitions and mobile service expansion, Reuters reported. (forbesindia.com)
  • For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. (bookmate.com)
  • Together with our partners China Dialogue , Made in China Journal , Mahidol University and City University of Hong Kong , RWI has developed a range of initiatives focusing on Global China and China's role in multilateral issues and regional governance related to human rights, the environment and sustainable development. (lu.se)
  • RWI has also supported development of an online People's Map of Global China, an open access website developed by Made in China Journal which will be launched in 2021. (lu.se)
  • Intended as a resource for Chinese teachers and researchers, the teaching compendium will be published online and in print at a Chinese publishing house in 2021. (lu.se)
  • In a series of articles and events in 2021, RWI will explore the role China can play in helping to achieve those goals, and how it intersects with China's notion of multilateralism. (lu.se)
  • On November 15, 2017, police stormed into a student reading group at the Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) and seized six participants, including four current students at the university and two recent graduates from other schools. (socialistproject.ca)
  • Get full access to Reading the Tea Leaves on China's Exchange Rate and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly. (oreilly.com)
  • China Dialogue is an independent organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of China's urgent environmental challenges. (chinadialogue.net)
  • Only after the emperor's 1912 overthrow did the opportunity arise for China's "young intellectuals and reformers," many of them foreign-educated, to establish a republican government, led by Sun Yat-sen and influenced by the reading of Western thinkers like Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Aristotle. (freebeacon.com)
  • In short, the latest numbers show China is using more coal and energy than previously thought, but the last two years of data suggest China's coal use may be peaking earlier than expected. (theconversation.com)
  • China's latest available energy statistics, based on a more thorough accounting of energy use in China, has the country's coal use, measured in energy terms, plateauing and declining over the past two years. (theconversation.com)
  • Reading Into a New China is a best-selling, innovative course designed to build advanced level reading and writing proficiency using essays on China's rapidly changing sociocultural landscape. (cheng-tsui.com)
  • The third draft also stipulates that overseas entities or individuals that attack, invade, interfere with or destroy Chinese "key information infrastructures" will be subject to legal liability, and China's public security agencies may adopt sanctions against them, including freezing their assets. (huntonprivacyblog.com)
  • This thesis is supported by China's aggressive behaviour backed by military strength to aggrandize maritime territory from other claimants involving the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and the Senkaku Islands currently in Japan's possession in the East China Sea. (c3sindia.org)
  • There are serious concerns, however, on China's policy on territorial disputes in the South China Sea. (c3sindia.org)
  • China's claims on the Spratly Islands have been questioned by some well known Chinese strategists. (c3sindia.org)
  • In step with China's growing economic power and influence around the world, there is growing interest among different stakeholders to engage with Chinese counterparts on the social, human rights and environmental impacts of 'Global China' and Chinese overseas investments. (lu.se)
  • The People's Map of Global China is a project by RWI partner Made in China Journal that tracks China's complex and rapidly changing international activities. (lu.se)
  • The series' pedagogy emphasizes reading comprehension strategies and language acquisition techniques, teaching learners to skim texts for main ideas, scan for details, and identify different types of prose. (cheng-tsui.com)
  • How Do Readers of Chinese Process Words During Reading for Comprehension? (taylorfrancis.com)
  • Researchers have mainly focused their attention on the cognitive component including reading comprehension and acquisition of fluency [ 6 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • According to data by US-based tech research firm Omdia, the average annual revenue growth of the top 10 Chinese chipmakers, including memory integrated circuit and logic IC developers, stood at 19.6 percent between 2015 and 2019, outpacing that of Korea's 10 biggest chip manufacturers, including Samsung and SK hynix. (koreaherald.com)
  • Speaking of the House, Democrat Rep. Judy Chu of California was appointed in 2019 as honorary chair of what the DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION reports is an alleged Chinese Communist Party intelligence front group called the Forums for Peaceful Reunification of China, which opposes an independent Taiwan. (mikehuckabee.com)
  • The idea for the dictionary came from discussions at the roundtable event 'Engaging with China: Challenges and the Way Forward in Higher Education, Human Rights and Public Diplomacy' , organised by RWI in Stockholm in 2019. (lu.se)
  • CDC is closely monitoring an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel (new) coronavirus (termed "2019-nCoV") that was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China and which continues to expand. (cdc.gov)
  • Chinese health officials have reported hundreds of infections with 2019-nCoV in China, including outside of Hubei Province. (cdc.gov)
  • From one of the authors of Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar comes Speak and Read Chinese , a simple, fun guide that helps language learners remember pinyin, tones, and characters of essential Chinese words. (stonebridge.com)
  • Alice in Wonderland" in Chinese, Pinyin and English can be found on the NCIKU website. (chinesepod.com)
  • My reading speed with characters or characters and pinyin was is too slow to keep me interested/motivated, but listening and following along with the text was easier to understand than just listening alone and I found that I could understand better because I was processing the whole sentence instead of word by word. (chinese-forums.com)
  • Previous to 2022 I'd read the Harry Potter series, a series about some brothers named Hal & Roger, some Agatha Christie, and a number of mysteries translated from Japanese. (chinese-forums.com)
  • I'm not diligent/patient enough to read novels in Chinese. (chinesepod.com)
  • I tried using LingQ and reading/listening along to novels, but it was slow and clunky. (chinese-forums.com)
  • To Yuwei Pan, a regular fix of Chinese novels on her smartphone makes her daily commute a pleasure. (forbesindia.com)
  • Platforms publish novels online-fans gather, read and share stories online. (forbesindia.com)
  • When reading Chinese online novels, you are engaging with a community. (forbesindia.com)
  • From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese "Shakespeare," and from Feng Xiaogang's martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater, Chinese opera in Europe, and silent film, Shakespeare has been put to work in unexpected places, yielding a rich trove of transnational imagery and paradoxical citations in popular and political culture. (bookmate.com)
  • UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics Baskut Tuncak gives a lecture at Renmin University of China, 2018. (lu.se)
  • Pleco for iPhone / Android iPhone & Android Chinese dictionary: camera & hand- writing input, flashcards, audio. (chinese-forums.com)
  • Since the first cancer registry in China began operating in 1959 in Linzhou, the country has made a systematic effort to enhance its cancer surveillance framework and its use of cancer data. (who.int)
  • The Chinese official media has been high profiling the country's economic and military strength, at times suggesting they can prevent US intervention in case of a military conflict in the region. (c3sindia.org)
  • In China, for example, data from apps people use is fed into the country's social credit system, which is linked to "privileges", such as being able to book a flight. (newscientist.com)
  • Ten cases have so far been confirmed, while the country's health officials have stated that field hospitals are being erected to deal with the influx of its foreign nationals from China. (rte.ie)
  • 1999). Reading Chinese Script: A Cognitive Analysis (1st ed. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • A comprehensive appraisal of cognitive processes during the reading of Chinese script that includes studies conducted by leading researchers from within and outside the mainland, this volume will be of interest to all those studying reading and visual symbol processing. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • The results show that most of the students are able to adopt cognitive strategies, in their reading progress, such as memorizing, using background knowledge, underlining the key information, and finding clues from the context. (macrothink.org)
  • The switch from gunshots to injections is a sign that China "promotes human rights now," says Kang Zhongwen, who designed the Jinguan Automobile death van in which "Devil" Zhang took his final ride. (curiousread.com)
  • Drawing inspiration from the popular 'English Corner' in China, our club offers a dynamic platform for students of the Chinese language to enhance their oral skills. (sun.ac.za)
  • Our China Tours guides were excellent, knowledgeable, spoke fluent English and Vietnamese, and helped to make this adventure memorable. (chinatour.com)
  • You can find this book in Chinese (25 RMB) and English (21 RMB) in big Cities in China and I "read" (well try to read) both at the same time. (chinesepod.com)
  • First I read the English version, and then the Chinese and I think this will help me with my Chinese in the long run. (chinesepod.com)
  • Perfect pocket-sized dictionary with both Chinese-English and English-Chinese sections. (wor.com)
  • Someone who reads and writes English fluently. (kateva.org)
  • One curious side-effect of the Chinese blogging scene is that bloggers who read English also translate what they read into Chinese. (kateva.org)
  • It's totally safe to post whatever I like in English on a foreign website(as long as you can access it easily within China). (kateva.org)
  • In simplified Chinese characters and English. (chinasprout.com)
  • Reading skill plays an important role in the English education in China especially when English reading is tested on an exam paper. (macrothink.org)
  • Reading Into a New China provides very comprehensive and on-target coverage of content important to advanced-level Chinese. (cheng-tsui.com)
  • Here is a list of the most popular pieces of content from the China Sourcing Information Center. (psschina.com)
  • The interactive experience of China Literature is another main differentiator-most of its content is serialised, which means writers will often publish work chapter by chapter, sometimes altering plotlines based on suggestions from users. (forbesindia.com)
  • China Literature has a developed content control system," says Analysys's Huang. (forbesindia.com)
  • The Chinese understood the concept that the face represents the energies, health and fortune of a person and they wished to live in harmony with these, and with the prevailing energies of the five elements, yin and yang, and the seasons. (positivehealth.com)
  • Guess maybe it didn't get read or understood because the Chinese was bad, haha. (chinesepod.com)
  • While not at risk at present, it is understood concerns are growing regarding the debut race in Vietnam, that shares an 800-mile border with China. (rte.ie)
  • Bartsch's outlook is one of cultural relativism: She refrains from making derogatory comparisons between Chinese and Western cultures-despite the belief of some prominent Chinese scholars that their civilization would benefit from imbibing elements of the Western classical tradition. (freebeacon.com)
  • Read served as president and chief operating officer of Lenovo Group, Ltd. During Read's five-year tenure at Lenovo he was responsible for driving growth, execution, profitability and performance across a global $16 billion enterprise encompassing over 160 countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • The PIRLS 2011 is the third cycle that includes a full complement of questionnaires to investigate the experiences of young children at home and school in learning to read. (hindawi.com)
  • PIRLS in each cycle collects a range of pieces of information about factors that may affect pupils' learning by administering background questionnaires to pupils, parents, teachers, school principals, and curriculum experts, together with assessing pupils' performance in reading. (hindawi.com)
  • Validated questionnaires to assess student reading contexts [ 6 , 7 ] and allow international comparison do not exist. (hindawi.com)
  • The student questionnaires (PIRLS-SQ 2011) encompassed two modules: (1) a general module inquiring on pupils' home background and attitudes toward school and (2) a reading module inquiring on reading attitudes and behaviours, whereas the second module had the potential of filling the literature gap on educational measurement. (hindawi.com)
  • For Chinese firms, the pace of appreciation is a key determinant of profitability. (oreilly.com)
  • But the problems are not unique to Chinese firms, he says. (newscientist.com)
  • Get a weekly email featuring the pick of our articles, a digest of environmental stories from China, occasional news on events we host and our annual readership survey. (chinadialogue.net)
  • They will become more reliable "proxy servers", the better to serve their Chinese readership. (kateva.org)
  • The Chinese company enjoys a readership of 175.3 million, while the total number of Amazon account holders is just over 300 million (Amazon does not share figures for the number of Kindle Store users). (forbesindia.com)
  • The student questionnaire (PIRLS-SQ 2011) of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) was designed to gather information from pupils on reading literacy development as to aspects of pupils' self-lives, home, and school lives across countries/districts. (hindawi.com)
  • The development of the home questionnaire, namely, the Chinese version of the PIRLS 2011 Home Questionnaire (PIRLS-HQCV 2011), shared similar methodology to the student questionnaire and is reported elsewhere [ 3 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • This paper is aimed at collecting information using questionnaire about the traditional clothing of Chinese and Japanese. (exclusivepapers.com)
  • Using a delayed retrospective questionnaire, this paper aims at eliciting EFL reading strategies from seven Chinese high school students. (macrothink.org)
  • Alarmed by the Chinese aggressive action on the borders, some Indian strategists believe Beijing is creating a situation to launch larger attacks in selected sections of the border, to occupy Indian territories strategically important to them. (c3sindia.org)
  • This is a big stick for Beijing, but they have not yet calculated the impact on China if such trade relations were suspended or stopped. (c3sindia.org)
  • TikTok chief Alex Zhu recently told the New York Times that it doesn't store data on Chinese servers or share data with its parent company ByteDance, which is based in Beijing. (newscientist.com)
  • From 2010 to 2012, he served as chief medical officer of United Family Hospital in Beijing, part of a privately owned healthcare system with hospitals in six major cities in China. (medscape.com)
  • The most recent organ transplant rabies transmission was detected in Beijing, China, in July 2015, when rabies was diagnosed in two patients who both received a kidney from same organ donor approximately 6 weeks earlier. (cdc.gov)
  • This wisdom has seen a huge resurgence in the West during the past 20 years with the growth of acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, Feng Shui and Qi Gong. (positivehealth.com)
  • Dr. Irene Liu was Director of the Chinese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, New York, for ten years. (cheng-tsui.com)
  • While Korea remains peerless in the global memory chip market, industry observers notice that multiple Chinese fabless chipmakers have been showing stellar growth in the last five years, and they are eyeing the memory market as well. (koreaherald.com)
  • That suggests that Korea is still three years ahead of China. (koreaherald.com)
  • I've been learning Chinese for way too many years and got frustrated with my lack of progress. (chinese-forums.com)
  • Read spent 23 years at IBM serving in various global leadership roles. (wikipedia.org)
  • On a personal note, my wife of 25 years is from China, and my daughter was adopted from an orphanage in China,"Jernejcic said in a Q&A with UPMC . (medscape.com)
  • This case in China is the 5th reported cluster of rabies transmission by solid organ transplant in the past 13 years. (cdc.gov)
  • A new paper by scientists from the National Cancer Center of China, the National Cancer Center of Japan, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reviews the milestones in the development of population-based cancer registration in China over the past 60 years. (who.int)
  • Study Chinese in Kunming 1-1 classes, qualified teachers and unique teaching methods in the Spring City. (chinese-forums.com)
  • Want to learn Chinese? (discovermagazine.com)
  • Starting a Chinese vegetable garden can also help in the learning of new terms and words and at the end of the day, you can also learn some new gardening skills that you had no idea existed. (lflus.com)
  • Amid Xi's claim to cultural, military, and political superiority over the West, Americans may be surprised to learn of a growing interest in Greek and Roman texts among Chinese academics-sometimes even cited in party editorials. (freebeacon.com)
  • You can learn not only traditional Chinese way of thinking but also a little "out of date" wording and phrasing, hehe. (chinesepod.com)
  • Learn how to read faster! (teacherjoe.us)
  • I heard a story recently that reminded me of myself as I have tried to learn Chinese. (teacherjoe.us)
  • This is how you learn Chinese in 12 months! (languagehelpers.com)
  • Learn Chinese with ChineseClass101.com language lessons are a great way to learn Chinese and best of all they are free! (languagehelpers.com)
  • Learn Chinese Characters Learn 2289 Chinese Characters in 90 Days with a Unique Flash Card System. (chinese-forums.com)
  • The Shanghai World Expo mascot Haibao helps children learn about the Chinese culture. (chinasprout.com)
  • Please read the statement below to learn more about the steps CDC is taking to investigate and stop the spread of this virus. (cdc.gov)
  • Shanghai Key Laboratory for Urban Ecological Processes and lates were closely related to isolates H68 and H297 from Eco-Restoration, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal wild ducks reported in South Korea in early 2014 ( 8 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The breathtaking pace of change in China is reflected in this substantial revision. (cheng-tsui.com)
  • The intended users of the dictionary are policy makers and institutions in Europe who are engaged in dialogue and exchanges with China. (lu.se)
  • Reading is essential to learning in school which facilitates future activities in work and community and provides enjoyment from leisure reading [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • For many, Chinese online literature facilitates freedom of writing and reading. (forbesindia.com)
  • Our coverage has won recognition from the Society of Publishers in Asia and is widely read by economists, business leaders, academics and students with an interest in one of the world's most vibrant and complex developing markets. (chinaeconomicreview.com)
  • For all the crazy stories you've heard about China, the world's biggest country is going to keep raising an eyebrow or two. (curiousread.com)
  • 8. The world's biggest mall is in China. (curiousread.com)
  • At the same time, she initially downplays the transformation that Western influences such as Marxism have already made in "Chinese" ways. (freebeacon.com)
  • ChangXin Memory Technologies, the first Chinese memory provider, recently made it public that it would start mass producing DRAM on a 17-nanometer process within the year. (koreaherald.com)
  • As I have progressed, I am sure that I have made many mistakes while speaking Chinese. (teacherjoe.us)
  • 15. 85 percent of artificial Christmas trees are made in China. (curiousread.com)
  • Hong claims that this was done despite her never creating an account, and that the information secretly transmitted to China included draft videos she had made using the app but never posted. (newscientist.com)
  • In addition to these three main strands of research I am also engaged in work related to the field of China Studies more broadly, and am involved in the Open Access movement, particularly through the Made in China Journal , which I co-edit. (lu.se)
  • Maybe we can post our favorite "old school" media (books) or reading suggestions in this thread so others can benefit from it? (chinesepod.com)
  • Basically I don't read paper Chinese books except for ones on Chinese language/characters as I don't want to get frustrated by seeing 生词 and flipping a dictionary. (chinesepod.com)
  • A combo of books of "good writing" including fiction, journalism and other non-fiction etc. (my reading ability not yet quite there however. (chinesepod.com)
  • It's the Reading Mi bookstore, a conceptual space from the Yoyi Books brand. (interiordesign.net)
  • I was at about 10 books read by March and that's where I started keeping records of how much I was reading each day. (chinese-forums.com)
  • I re-read Harry Potter, I read almost all of Agatha Christie's books, read quite a few Japanese mysteries and the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series, and Les Miserables. (chinese-forums.com)
  • I really have no opinion on the question of reading translated books vs. books originally in Chinese, I like reading mysteries and cannot find any written in Chinese so I haven't bothered looking. (chinese-forums.com)
  • I turn to Kindle for serious books, but I go to Chinese online literature for imagination, fun and freedom," Pan says. (forbesindia.com)
  • According to its company reports, China Literature has more books than the Kindle Store (8.4 million versus 6.9 million) but fewer writers (5.3 million versus 14 million). (forbesindia.com)
  • Unlike the Kindle Store, which is essentially a platform selling digital versions of mainstream paper books, China Literature has "everything in the virtual sphere", says Shao Yanjun, an associate professor at Peking University's Chinese department. (forbesindia.com)
  • I've included a variety of reading, from books I've found particularly insightful to significant reporting on everything from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to al Qaeda's media strategy. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Chinese herbal mixtures have been used to treat irritable bowel syndrome, Tourette syndrome, and many other disorders. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Dr. Duanduan Li is Associate Professor of Chinese Applied Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. (cheng-tsui.com)
  • Students and teachers rate character pronunciation and tones, the two most difficult aspects of learning Chinese. (stonebridge.com)
  • This book addresses this issue by organizing easy pronunciation and tone memorization tricks for the 300 most basic characters in popular textbook series like Integrated Chinese and New Practical Chinese Reader. (stonebridge.com)
  • The ancient art of face reading has been used since the time of Confucius by Chinese doctors as an aid to diagnosis and a way of helping their patients. (positivehealth.com)
  • By 220 BC, the art of face reading was established in Chinese life and classic treatises, such as the Golden Scissors and Bamboo Chronicles , were written at this time. (positivehealth.com)
  • The present reflects our health at the time of the reading. (positivehealth.com)
  • Many of the remote rural areas of China through which he has walked are becoming directly linked into the rest of the world for the first time, but the level of education is insufficient to prepare children for the challenges and opportunities this will bring. (chinaeconomicreview.com)
  • Maybe you have family members that have spent some time living in China or you have good friends that come from China, you are already used to enjoying several several of their vegetable dishes and delicacies. (lflus.com)
  • During my time in China, though, I have been fortunate to have many good teachers. (teacherjoe.us)
  • If there were Chinese balloons that went undetected at the time, that is a different very serious problem. (mikehuckabee.com)
  • I can read things that are written entirely in Chinese characters that I couldn't a year ago, though I haven't spent any time concentrating on characters. (chinese-forums.com)
  • On any measurement of Chinese profficiency I still have a long way to go to, but I did all of this reading/listening with two kids and a full-time job and I enjoyed it. (chinese-forums.com)
  • Given more time, India will become stronger militarily and economically and would thwart any Chinese misadventure. (c3sindia.org)
  • At a time when China is offering global leadership on the SDGs, what role can right-holders and civil society play in ensuring these goals are met, and rights are protected? (lu.se)
  • A sustained reduction in coal, the main fuel used to generate electricity in China, will be good news for the local environment and global climate. (theconversation.com)
  • The 'Decoding China Dictionary' was developed with the purpose to provide policy-makers and practitioners with a tool for understanding the Chinese meaning of key terms used in international relations and development cooperation. (lu.se)
  • Severe pollution in the global electronics giant's Chinese supply chain poisons the environment and threatens public health, said a coalition of green campaigners in August. (chinadialogue.net)
  • As the largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, how much coal China is burning is of global interest. (theconversation.com)
  • To keep China in check, the US is moving to increase semiconductor production by inviting chipmakers like Taiwan's TSMC to open domestic plants to make it more self-sufficient in times of global crisis. (koreaherald.com)
  • Like it or not, China plays a critical role in the global economy from here out. (curiousread.com)
  • Ding Gang, a senior editor of the Party mouthpiece the People's Daily wrote (Sept.26 and 27) in the Global Times and the People's Daily that the Chinese map making the claims lacked validity. (c3sindia.org)
  • Substantiated by case studies of major cultural events and texts from the first Opium War in 1839 to our times, Chinese Shakespeares theorizes competing visions of "China" and "Shakespeare" in the global cultural marketplace and challenges the logic of fidelity-based criticism and the myth of cultural exclusivity. (bookmate.com)
  • I am an area specialist focusing on contemporary China and its global manifestations. (lu.se)
  • This core, advanced-level Chinese text is very highly recommended, especially for college and university Chinese language instructional collections. (cheng-tsui.com)
  • The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), the largest international reading achievement project, was first developed to explore the role of reading in educational achievement of fourth-grade pupils across 49 countries/districts in 2001. (hindawi.com)
  • I don't have any hard numbers on "progress" in my Chinese ability, but I have observed some changes. (chinese-forums.com)
  • People across China are striving to improve their lives and give their children the best possible start, and the government is rightly focused on the twin issues of raising living standards and dealing with the growing gap between the richest and the poorest. (chinaeconomicreview.com)
  • The truth is growing these Chinese vegetables isn't as difficult as most people think it to be because they have similar requirements like that of the western region as well. (lflus.com)
  • David Michie, best-selling author of the non-fiction book Buddhism for Busy People and a long-term Western Buddhist says: 'The Government in China seems to have learned nothing from its past mistakes. (phayul.com)
  • China is a country filled with ancient wonders, high-tech cities, and lots of people-more than any other country on Earth! (portersquarebooks.com)
  • People think I can speak Chinese well when I say a long sentence smoothly. (teacherjoe.us)
  • Although it was repeatedly blocked only moments after being reposted, over 400 people soon signed the petition, including many prominent intellectuals who risk repercussions because they are based in China. (socialistproject.ca)
  • The traditional people referred the cloths as, "hanfu" and had variations like Chinese academic dress. (exclusivepapers.com)
  • The common men in China used to wear black cotton shoes while the wealthy and high class people wore tough black leather shoes during ceremonies or formal occasions. (exclusivepapers.com)
  • Traditionally, Chinese people used to have different cloths for different social class (Antony, 2009). (exclusivepapers.com)
  • 2. China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world COMBINED. (curiousread.com)
  • A lot of people, like me, do care about what's going on domestic and internationally, but to be safe you can't become an activist in China. (kateva.org)
  • The latest figures from the Chinese Health Commission on Wednesday reported that approaching 25,000 people have been infected, resulting in a death toll of near 500, while 15 sports events have so far been either cancelled or postponed. (rte.ie)
  • After a Chinese company owned by a former Chinese soldier with ties to the CCP purchased 130,000 acres near Laughlin Air Force Base, a pilot training center in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans are working on a restriction in their state on Chinese citizens and businesses buying property. (mikehuckabee.com)
  • Early on, many of the patients in the outbreak in Wuhan, China reportedly had some link to a large seafood and animal market, suggesting animal-to-person spread. (cdc.gov)
  • My primary area of study to date has been the formulation and implementation of microcredit programmes for rural development in China, as well as financial inclusion initiatives and digital financial penetration more broadly. (lu.se)
  • Growing up in a small town in Ohio, Chloe always dreamed of writing stories that could take kids on their own reading adventures, and she's thrilled to be doing just that! (portersquarebooks.com)
  • She is the former Director of the Chinese Language Programs in the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, Vancouver (2003-2012), and in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, New York (2002-2003). (cheng-tsui.com)
  • Co-authors of Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar: A Student's Guide to Correct Structures and Common Errors (Stone Bridge Press, 2011) and Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings: With Observations on Culture and Language (Stone Bridge Press, 2012). (stonebridge.com)
  • The future is not predestined in Chinese philosophy: acts of compassion can lengthen one's life, and taking greater care with health can resolve possible future symptoms. (positivehealth.com)
  • Amid persistent smog in Chinese cities, a controversy swelled this year about the government's reporting of air pollution statistics. (chinadialogue.net)
  • Earlier this year I spoke to its Chinese-American director Ruby Yang, maker of 2006 Academy Award-winning documentary The Blood of Yingzhou District . (chinadialogue.net)
  • Some believe that China has already edged past Korea in 5G technology, with drones dropping off face masks, spraying disinfectants and delivering hot meals to hospital patients -- just a few of its latest efforts to harness the 5G networks it deployed last year. (koreaherald.com)
  • Although China remains behind Korea in terms of both design and manufacturing technologies, it was noticeable that their memory fabs are filled with the latest equipment and equipped with cutting-edge solutions," said Yoo Hoi-jun, professor at the electrical engineering department at Korea Advanced Institute of Technology, who had visited the CXMT plant located in Hufei, Anhui province, last year. (koreaherald.com)
  • Earlier, another Chinese memory firm Yangtze Memory Technologies said it had completed development of 128-layer NAND Flash chips and will start churning them out this year, hinting that the technological gap is narrowing more quickly in the NAND market. (koreaherald.com)
  • I was taking several days or weeks to read a book early in the year, but by December I was plowing through an entire Agatha Christie book most days. (chinese-forums.com)
  • The 21-year-old student is one of more than 330 million readers of Chinese online literature. (forbesindia.com)
  • We reported a local family cluster of 6 confirmed COVID-19 cases among 29 attendees of a Chinese New Year family dinner gathering in a restaurant, with 1 additional case from secondary transmission. (who.int)
  • Some expect that the conflict between the US and China will further pressure Korea, which is already sandwiched between the two in the political arena. (koreaherald.com)
  • Word usage, sentence patterns, and grammar activities are scaffolded for writing skills development, and communicative exercises such as discussion and presentation topics encourage speaking and writing about complex social issues in contemporary China. (cheng-tsui.com)
  • My second strand of research concerns Chinese migration to Ghana for informal, small-scale gold mining-particularly focusing on socioeconomic transformation in Ghana and China, processes and patterns of migration, and flows of resources. (lu.se)
  • Reading China with Haibao is a set of six Chinese cultural readers including Chinese Games , Chinese Food , Chinese Houses , Chinese Festivals , Chinese Clothing and Chinese Characters . (chinasprout.com)
  • Finally, the Northeastern region had the lowest wages in China, with an average of RMB 77,631 (US$12,108) (8.2 percent growth) in the urban non-private sector, and RMB 43,928 (US$6,851) (10.2 percent growth) in the urban private sector. (china-briefing.com)
  • Among the top 10 Chinese chipmakers by growth rate, just one, GigaDevice Semiconductor, is a memory provider, according to the Omdia data. (koreaherald.com)
  • In their application for an IPO, China Literature disclosed revenue of $384 million, up by 59.1 percent from 2015-a rate of growth more than double that of Amazon, which has its own e-book platform, the Kindle Store. (forbesindia.com)
  • As managing partner for IBM's Business Consulting Services Industrial Sector, Read led the division through a turnaround that significantly improved gross margins, drove new customer acquisitions and generated double digit revenue growth and operating profitability. (wikipedia.org)
  • Read diversified the portfolio to produce revenue of 50% from five new high growth markets, building over US$2 billion in new businesses. (wikipedia.org)
  • I have the best of intentions about reading good literature, but mostly my enthusiasm dies after one chapter (I'm stubborn enough to finish one chapter. (chinesepod.com)
  • While the similarity allows international comparisons of studies in different places following the PIRLS strategy, the findings of this study add to extant literature on the relationship between student factors and reading achievement. (hindawi.com)
  • I go to Chinese online literature for imagination, fun and freedom. (forbesindia.com)
  • China Literature launched its first e-reader in June at a price similar to the Kindle Paperwhite. (forbesindia.com)
  • Bearing this in mind, it won't be surprising to discover that a typical story line on China Literature would be similar to the Twilight tale-an apparent nobody, like Bella Swan, achieves an enviable life at the end. (forbesindia.com)
  • So, face reading can be used to sum up a person's energies, to get a health read-out, to assess character, to help gain self knowledge and to plan for good health. (positivehealth.com)
  • This influential article about Beijing's smog and the controversy around official "misinformation" on air quality was chinadialogue 's most read. (chinadialogue.net)
  • This is why we have decided to bring you this very interesting article as it would guide you towards growing several Chinese vegetables with less difficulty. (lflus.com)
  • The Chinese government of Xi Jinping has indicated, by word and deed, the intention of pursuing world hegemony-through its military buildup, aggressive posture toward Taiwan, and the Belt and Road initiative that extends across central Asia and beyond. (freebeacon.com)
  • The series also explains the nuances of formal written Chinese and encourages users to implement newly learned literary forms in their writing. (cheng-tsui.com)
  • Exceptionally well written and organized, Reading Into a New China is thoroughly 'student friendly' in its bilingual presentation. (cheng-tsui.com)
  • Instead, I read several articles, colums, and editorials in some online Chinese newspapers and a blog written by a Chinese writer who lives in Japan with the help of Chinese-perakun every day. (chinesepod.com)
  • Margolyes shines brightest reading "The Story of Qiuyu," a beautifully written story of a peasant woman seeking justice from the local political machine. (audiofilemagazine.com)
  • This writer does not claim to be a Pundit, but has enough experience to try and read the tea leaves. (c3sindia.org)
  • Halberstadt-Freud, H. C. (1991) Mental Health Care in China. (pep-web.org)
  • In a recent announcement , Chuck Bogosta , president of UPMC International and executive vice president of UPMC, said, "As someone with long experience in driving the development of high-quality, high-value health care both nationally and internationally, Dr Jernejcic is the right person to lead our trail-blazing hospital in China. (medscape.com)
  • What is dismaying is that many countries including India tend to follow the Chinese dictates. (c3sindia.org)
  • It is normal for Chinese soldiers posted on the Indian border to be taught about the 1962 India-China border war, when under armed and under clothed Indian soldiers were routed. (c3sindia.org)
  • We also delve into the rich tapestry of Chinese culture by sampling delectable Chinese food and tea, celebrating traditional festivals, organizing special events, hosting movie screenings, and much more. (sun.ac.za)
  • Originating in China several millennia ago, traditional Chinese medicine is based on the theory that illness results from the imbalance of the life force (qi, pronounced chee) through the body. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Traditional Chinese medicine uses formulas containing mixtures of herbs to treat various ailments. (msdmanuals.com)
  • My first Chinese "teachers" were some students I played basketball with. (teacherjoe.us)
  • The dressing mode was regarded as Zhongshan suit and was adopted from Chinese students (Ashikari, 2010). (exclusivepapers.com)
  • Learning Chinese has been such a struggle for me! (teacherjoe.us)