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Free Download Guanglun Michael Mu, "Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education "
English | ISBN: 1032355301 | 2023 | 220 pages | EPUB | 997 KB
For more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieu’s sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its origin. This edited collection has a focus on China, applying Bourdieu’s analysis of practice as Chinese education gains relevance and attention around the globe.

Free Download Guanglun Michael Mu, "Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education "
English | ISBN: 1032355301 | 2023 | 220 pages | EPUB | 997 KB
For more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieu’s sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its origin. This edited collection has a focus on China, applying Bourdieu’s analysis of practice as Chinese education gains relevance and attention around the globe.

Free Download Ruth Hayhoe, "Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators"
English | 2007 | pages: 414 | ISBN: 1402055676, 9628093401 | PDF | 4,1 mb
Portraits, whether graphic or verbal, have distinct purposes and values. Through deliberate selection, they seek to reveal and, thereby, to illuminate. In their literary form, selection of content and style ensures that they do not presume to achieve the status of fully-fledged biographies. Even so, a carefully brush-stroked, multi-layered and richly textured pen-portrait is capable of revealing much about both character and circumstance. And what it reveals is likely to be different from and far more profound than any insights permitted by other miniatures, such as simple snapshots or polemical caricatures. Professor Ruth Hayhoe has produced a whole gallery of valuable portraits in the present book. For a book in the present series, however, a key question remains. How and why may pen-portraits of eleven influential educators, from a single country and within roughly the same time frame, contribute significantly to the literature of comparative education? My own answer to this question is simple. This particular gallery makes its important contribution in two main ways and for a number of good reasons. The ‘How?’ part of the question clearly involves process, especially methodological process. A portrait typically involves both foreground and background features. Some of the most effective portraits seem to encourage their observers to recognize interplay between foreground and background.

Free Download Play and Learn Chinese by Ana Lomba
English | February 27th, 2012 | ISBN: 0071759700 | 64 pages | True EPUB | 27.77 MB
The Parents’ Choice award winning-language program for children is now available in Chinese! This hands-on program shows parents how to turn everyday activities into fun Chinese-learning opportunities-for children ages 1-7.

Free Download Eric Li, "Party Life: Chinese Governance and the World Beyond Liberalism"
English | ISBN: 9819945216 | 2023 | 278 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The emergence of China as a great power is perhaps the most consequential development for the world in the 21st century. Yet, what the Western world sees in this development is largely through the prism of misinterpreted ideological dichotomy and misguided geopolitical rivalry. This book offers a deep look at the Chinese Communist Party and the nation it leads at conceptual, historic, and operational levels. If Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigm shift can be used in the social sciences, then China would represent the most significant anomaly to the dominant liberal exemplar. For students of China and of politics in general, and for the Western political and commercial elites, if they were to read one book about China to grasp the nature and weight of the Chinese phenomenon, Party Life would be it.

Free Download Laikwan Pang, "One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty"
English | ISBN: 1503638812 | 2024 | 276 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 4 MB
The concept of sovereignty is a crucial foundation of the current world order. Regardless of their political ideologies no states can operate without claiming and justifying their sovereign power. The People’s Republic of China (PRC)-one of the most powerful states in contemporary global politics-has been resorting to the logic of sovereignty to respond to many external and internal challenges, from territorial rights disputes to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this book, Pang Laikwan analyzes the historical roots of Chinese sovereignty. Surveying the four different political structures of modern China-imperial, republican, socialist, and post-socialist-and the dramatic ruptures between them, Pang argues that the ruling regime’s sovereign anxiety cuts across the long twentieth century in China, providing a strong throughline for the state-society relations during moments of intense political instability. Focusing on political theory and cultural history, the book demonstrates how concepts such as popular sovereignty, territorial sovereignty, and economic sovereignty were constructed, and how sovereign power in China was both legitimized and subverted at various times by intellectuals and the ordinary people through a variety of media from painting and literature to internet-based memes. With the possibility of a new Cold War looming large, globalization disintegrating, and populism on the rise, Pang provides a timely reevaluation of the logic of sovereignty in China as power, discourse, and a basis for governance.

Free Download Liu Xun, "New Practical Chinese Reader, Vol. 3"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 7561932553 | PDF | pages: 296 | 52.6 mb
Since New Practical Chinese Reader was published in 2002, it has been well received by teachers and learners of Chinese around the world. For users convenience, in this new edition, we have revised those we found improper, but have not revised the framework, the texts and the main language points of the textbook. In contrast to its first edition, the explanations of the text are designed next to each text to facilitate students. Users can download the traditional Chinese version of the texts for free. All the reading materials and illustrations in the accompanying workbook are updated.

Free Download Chloë Starr, "Modern Chinese Theologies: Volume 2: Independent and Indigenous"
English | ISBN: 150648798X | 2023 | 271 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The majority of Christians in China over the course of the last century have worshipped not in missionary-founded churches or in congregations affiliated with the contemporary Three-Self Patriotic Movement or Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, but in independent and unregistered churches, often labeled "house churches." From the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements within the mission-church landscape of the early twentieth century, to the Calvinist Reformed movement in the present-day Protestant church, the vibrant faith life and extraordinary church growth of this sector of Chinese Christianity offer a fascinating witness and lesson to the world church. Yet despite the size of their congregations and the spread of their teachings, the theologies of these independent and unregistered churches have drawn much less academic attention than those of mission-church or "state church" theologians.

Free Download Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third-Culture Kitchen: A Cookbook by Jon Kung
English | October 31, 2023 | ISBN: 0593578171 | 288 pages | MOBI | 48 Mb
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Free Download Kekang He, "Innovative Education Informatization with Chinese Characteristics: Theory and Practice "
English | ISBN: 9811906211 | 2022 | 475 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book contains the research of Innovative Education Informatization conducted by researchers from School of Educational Technology, Beijing Normal University since early 1990s. There are three main parts of the book. The first part is about six pillars supporting the theory of Innovative Education Informatization with Chinese Characteristics. Six theories are: 1) Theory of Creative Thinking, 2) New Constructivism, 3) Theory of In-depth Integration of Information Technology and Subjects Teaching, 4) New Theory of Teaching Design, 5) Theory of Children’s Thinking Development, and 6) Language Sense Theory. The second part pays attention to advocating maker education system with Chinese characteristics. The third part focuses on Chinese-style flipped classroom. The book will have profound impact on education informatization.