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from: Hippocrene Books See Larger Image Our Price: $11.95 Prices subject to change. Used Price: $5.88 Third Party New Price: $7.72 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 398.995103 EAN: 9780781806824 ISBN: 0781806828 Label: Hippocrene Books Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: September 01, 1998 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Sales Rank: 657443 Studio: Hippocrene Books Related Items: Chinese Proverbs Dictionary of 1,000 Chinese Idioms Best-Loved Chinese Proverbs (2nd Edition) ABC Dictionary of Chinese Proverbs (ABC Chinese Dictionary Series) Selection of Chinese Proverbs: With an Introduction, Notes, and Copious Index see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Chinese origins are listed alphabetically by key words. Written in Chinese Pinyin (phonetic transcription) and followed by the English equivalent. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Disappointing Distills the poetic wisdom of the ages into a lifeless list of bland exortations. There are books available which do preserve and present the beauty of oriental thought, but I am afraid this is not one of them. Try the book by Guy Zona, instead. Rating: - Yet another book of proverbs Disappointingly banal. This book reads as if it were written by a chinese-speaking lawyer. Verdict: don't waste your money. Rating: - It is not a easy to use dictionary. This book comprises of proverbs and vernaculars. Some phrases are regional. The proverbs were organized based on their Mandarin Pin-yin pronounciation. However, for those who do not know Chinese writing or pin-yin, this book is not quite helpful if you just want to understand Chinese proverbs. However, if you know Chinese and Mandarin pin-yin, you will find this book somewhat helpful. Also, the English index helps. As for me, who know how to read some Chinese (and do not know ... Read More Rating: - Nicely done. Well Organized. Comprehensive and useful book for mastering great phrases and sayings. I appreciated the characters being written in the back and the GREAT indexing (both English and Chinese). It would have been nice to have tone marks over the Pinyin, but the characters make up for it. Browse for similar items by category: Mythology - World Literature - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - General Mythology - World Literature - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - General AAS History & Criticism - United States - World Literature - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - Literary Theory Social Sciences - Nonfiction - Subjects - Books - Folklore & Mythology Foreign Language - Dictionaries & Thesauruses - Reference - Subjects - Books - Chinese