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Four-character idioms (know as "chengyu") are key ingredients of the Chinese language. The authors have selected 1,000 of the most frequently used ... read full description

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Mar 27, 2011
Graeme rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Lovely handwritten characters and sensitive English translations! Could use some illustrations.
May 12, 2008
André rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Nice book and might be useful too. Unfortunately the Pinyin trancription is without tones and the Chinese characters are handwritten (still easy to recognize, but the writing doesn't look very nice). Also, I couldn't find 塞翁失马 / 安知非福 in it. Bought this book in Amsterdam.
Jun 02, 2010
Jill marked it as to-read