This is one of ten books in a series entitled The Code... This is an excellent series for independent learners. The method provides all of the following: 1)simplified characters in Mandarin, 2) the pinyin equivalent, 3)the English translation, 4) various combinations of easy word combinations which facilitates transliteration and rapid comprehension, and 5) the audio cd. The creators of this program should be commended for their excellent work! I am using these books daily and am thoroughly enjoying learning Mandarin....

I AM A RETIRED EDUCATOR WHO IS LEARNING MANDARIN AS A RETIREMENT PROJECT. I HAVE ADDED THE LEARNING OF TAI-CHI AS PART OF MY LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACH. THE WUSHU DICTIONARY IS AN EXCELLENT LEARNING RESOURCE TO HELP ME NAVIGATE THROUGH THE CHINESE TAI-CHI DVD'S. I AM MOST PLEASED TO GIVE IT A 5/5 STARS.

ALSO I AM LOOKING FOR READING TEXTS IN SIMPLIFIED CHINESE THAT OFFER ALL THE FOLLOWING COMPONENTS: A) THE SENTENCES IN SIMPLIFIED CHINESE CHARACTERS, B) THE ACCOMPANYING PINYIN VERSION, C) A CHARACTER BY CHARACTER TRANSLATION (WORD FOR WORD, ALSO CALLED TRANLITERATION) AND FINALLY, D) THE ENGLISH POLISHED TRANSLATION. IF YOU HAVE MATERIALS THAT OFFER ALL OF THE FIVE ABOVE TOOLS, PLEASE SEND ME A LIST OF THOSE BOOKS/CDS/DVDS)...

This book is bilingual, i.e english and mandarin. It tells us about the Chinese imperial diets, and how the eating habits/preferences with the chinese imperials evolved with time. It is an interesting read, however, the english language used in the book needs more work....

This is an interesting cookbook with many different recipes for herbal soups.

A very comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary.

There are many texts regarding TCM, but this one is great for the beginning student.TCM is explained in a clear manner.Of course it is not a complete treatise, but will ensure that you have a very good grounding.Ideal for students and professionals as a reference source....

Great price best I found online. Email inquiries were respond to timely. Great place to shop. Thank you...

I bought the book because the two photos of the little girl holding the doll in the book is my cousin. The photos in the book are exceptionally and amazingly beautiful. I spent six years of my childhood in both Kunming and Chongqing. The photos bring me back to those memorable days. My father had taken over one thousand pictures during those years, but they were all in black and white 35mm negatives. I also bought the book for my brother who, like me, enjoys it tremendously....

This is enlightening in many ways. A completely credible and understandable interpretation of many of the classics of Pulse Diagnosis....

The listening component of the Contemporary Chinese course is a necessary companion to the books for a native English speaker like me. It is helpful that everything is read out by both a male and female speaker one after the other. It was the only way I could "triangulate" some pronunciations, and this brings me to the issue I found with this the Contemporary Chinese course as a native English speaker. It would have helped me if the books and audio made COMPARISONS of initials' pronunciation with familiar English letter combinations. As in "qi sounds like chi" etc. I had the same problem in my Chinese class and had to ask the teacher to clarify the pronunciations of initials using similar sounding English letter combinations so i could comprehend the sound my mouth was meant to be making. Of course exact phonetic representations aren't available for all the initials, but for initials like "zh", "q" "x" it would have helped me wrap my head around the sound I was meant to be making. Due to my difficulty with this I had to repeatedly listen to some initials to simply guess the way the speaker was saying it, only to find out when speaking to a native Mandarin speaker that what I thought I had heard was wrong! A second issue that stemmed from the first was that for me some of the initials are so similar sounding to one another that I could not understand how to make them sound DIFFERENT as they are meant to be. These issues slowed my development down considerably, but apart from the immense irritation I felt at these 2 issues, the listening component is an adequate companion to the course content and does still help everywhere else. I still recommend this, but attention given to comparative pronunciations using English letter combinations would have helped me learn a LOT quicker....