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"Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings is for everyday readers looking for pithy sayings, deeper understanding of the Chinese culture and a unique look at the Chinese language." - The Rapidian
"Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings opens a diverting and useful window on Chinese language and culture." - Asian Review of Books
This treasury of Chinese wisdom presents over five hu ...more
"Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings opens a diverting and useful window on Chinese language and culture." - Asian Review of Books
This treasury of Chinese wisdom presents over five hu ...more
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Chinese is great for aphorism, because it’s so concise and full of rhymes. But the content of this disappointed me; I was looking for wit, something I’d want to use, and mostly got hectoring maxims in a parental or lordly mode. Lots of comparing people to work animals or resources (lumber).
A lot of the advice, like the whole section about shutting your mouth, is overfit to China, or ancient China. Either way, revealing. But nothing here is as crystallised as the admonition to a loud or whirling ...more
A lot of the advice, like the whole section about shutting your mouth, is overfit to China, or ancient China. Either way, revealing. But nothing here is as crystallised as the admonition to a loud or whirling ...more
This book is quite small and brief, but useful. It is written for a general audience interested in cultural notes and sayings of wisdom, from wherever they may come. For the sake of brevity, the cultural notes present the ideals of the Chinese rather than the reality maybe, but are still essential to understanding the differences between Eastern and Western thought. There are over 500 sayings that include characters (simplified) and pinyin so that the student of Chinese can increase their vocabu
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The introductory passages were riveting. But somehow I could not connect myself to the book.
A very good collection of proverbs with their intended English meaning. All separated by history in 18 different chapters.
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