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Bad Elements is a book about contemporary Chinese history by Ian Buruma, published by Random House on November 20, 2001. The book's subtitle, Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing, indicates the main focus of the book. [1] Bad Elements is divided into three parts: The Exiles, Greater China and the Motherland.
The work was undertaken by Professor Lei Hok-ming (李學銘) of the Department of Chinese of the Education Bureau Institute of Language in Education (ILE) (語文教育學院) and other scholars within the department. A Committee for the Research of Commonly-Used Chinese Character Graphemes, composed of scholars from various academic ...
PowerWord (simplified Chinese: 金山词霸; traditional Chinese: 金山詞霸; pinyin: jīnshān cíbà; lit. 'Kingsoft Word Master') is a collection of Chinese, English and bilingual dictionaries and supporting proprietary software, published on CD-ROM in China by Kingsoft.
A book published by the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), titled Questions and Answers on Teaching Chinese with Mandarin, found that many parents believed that learning Chinese through Mandarin would improve writing skills, but this may have been a psychological effect. At Pei Dao Primary School, it was found that students who learned ...
Buruma may refer to: Buruma, Japanese for bloomers , specifically athletic bloomers Bulma ( ブルマ , Buruma ) , a character in the Japanese comic series Dragon Ball , by Akira Toriyama
The Chinese writing system provided unique opportunities for graphic pejoratives. The 'beast-radical' 犭 used to appear in the characters for the names of lesser peoples (e.g., 猺 'Yao'), though now the 'person-radical' 亻 has been substituted . [2]
Character amnesia is a phenomenon where experienced speakers of some East Asian languages forget how to write Chinese characters previously well-known to them. The phenomenon is specifically tied to prolonged and extensive use of input methods, such as those that use romanizations of characters, and is documented to be a significant issue in China and Japan.
The Thousand Character Classic (Chinese: 千字文; pinyin: Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four ...