January 2010 New Chinese Books

New Chinese Books at Xihaha Chinese Bookshop


Chinese Mandarin Children Short Stories

4 bilingual with PinYin Chinese English stories illustrated in lively pictures, with bilingual and pinyin to help you and your children to read and enjoy the stories together.

The Monkeys Fish out the Moon (Bilingual with Pinyin) 小猴子捞月亮（汉英对照）
Little Bear Learned New Skills (Bilingual with Pinyin) 小熊学本领（汉英对照）
Greedy Puppy (Bilingual with Pinyin) 贪吃的小狗（拼音版）双语童话

Increase Chinese Mandarin Vocabularies

These books are an abridged version of short stories and novellas written by contemporary Chinese writers, reflecting everyday life of ordinary Chinese people. The book contains around 3000 Chinese words based on the 1033 words of Level A and 2018 words of Level B listed in the HSK (The Chinese Proficiency Test) outline

Graded Chinese Reader 2 Selected Abridged Chinese Contemporary Short Stories (CD included) 汉语分级阅读 2
Graded Chinese Reader 3 Selected Abridged Chinese Contemporary Short Stories (CD included) 汉语分级阅读 3
Reading Stories and Learn Chinese (CD included)

Chinese Mandarin Learning for Adults Learner

Gateway to Business Chinese Regular Formulas and Etiquette (Paperback)
Advanced Business Chinese - Social Gatherings, Office Work, Day-to-Day Operation (Paperback)
Gateway to Business Chinese Daily Communication (paperback)
Confidence Chinese Volume 1 - Getting Started (with CD)
Confidence Chinese Volume 2 - Living in China (with CD)
Popular Chinese Expressions
Chinese 101 in Cartoons (For CEOs) (with Free MP3)
The Way We Think: Chinese View of Life Philosophy
The Way We Communicate Volume 1
The Way We Communicate Volume 2

Chinese Calligraphy & Chinese History

Want to learn about Chinese History?  This hardcover "Five Thousand Years of Chinese Nation" show the Records of the Historian was written by Sima Qian (145-90 BC), a great historian of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-25 AD) who dedicated his whole life to the book. China's first historical work centering on people rather than events, it presents a general Chinese history of some 3,000 years, from the legendary Yellow Emperor to 122 BC - the first year of the Yuanshou reign of Han Emperor Wu.

If you want to understand more about how written Chinese developed from picture drawn to record events, check this book "Gate to Chinese Calligraphy". Generally speaking, over the last thousands of years writing styles have moved form complexity to greater simplicity, pacing changes in society.

New Chinese Books at Xihaha Chinese Bookshop