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Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Quiet Reflection: One Chinese Painter Reveals his Art explains basic aspects of Chinese painting and calligraphy, and chronicles one life devoted to this priceless artistic tradition. No prior knowledge of Chinese language or culture is necessary to enjoy this book. The author suggests reading the text slowly, from beginning to end, in order to derive the greatest benefit and understanding. Happy reading!
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Taking a Systemic Functional Linguistic approach, this book explores the language that builds knowledge and values about history.
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Presents various aspects of the culture of China, discussing its language, writing system, religions, music, art, architecture, and diverse ethnic groups.
This book describes the discourse of biology from a systemic functional linguistic perspective. It offers a detailed description of resources based on text analysis. The description reveals co-textual patterns of language features, their expressions through grammatical resources, as well as their functions in the disciplinary context. The book also applies the description to analyse student texts in undergraduate biology, revealing characteristics of language and knowledge development. Although the discussion in this book focuses on the discourse of biology, both the language description and the descriptive principle can be used to inform the examination of knowledge in academic discourse in general, making this key reading for students and researchers in systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, English for academic purposes, applied linguistics, and science education.
China is on the rise in the globalized world. The relationship between China and the United States has become the most important global issue in the twenty-first century. It is urgent to understand what is happening in China and where China is heading. However, there are many misconceptions about China in the West, which affect Westerners’ ability to objectively understand China, and, ultimately influence the making of foreign policy toward China. The author attempts to challenge the misconceptions coming from both Western societies and China, and offer an integrated picture of contemporary China through systematically examining the major aspects of contemporary Chinese society and culture...