The Book Of Chinese Names
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Author | : Xiaoan Liu |
Publisher | : Asiapac Books Pte, Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Names, Chinese |
ISBN | : 9789813068308 |
A wonderful book to help parents and individuals choose Chinese names. Find the most original, appropriate and beautiful name for yourself or your child, and at the same time enhance your understanding of the Chinese culture.
Author | : Kheng Chuan Goh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Names, Chinese |
ISBN | : 9789810436346 |
Author | : Evelyn Lip |
Publisher | : Times Editions Pte |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fortune |
ISBN | : 9789812327277 |
To the Chinese, a person's name has great significance and is believed to be tied to his destiny. It must be chosen with utmost care. How do we choose an appropriate and auspicious Chinese name? How to choose an auspicious name based on ancient Chinese theories: the yin-yang, compatibility of the Five Elements, the number of strokes, Eight Characters (derived from a person's year, month, day and time of birth), and the person's horoscope.
Author | : Lim SK |
Publisher | : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2018-09-24 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9812299874 |
Did you know that if your surname is Ji and Jiang, it would mean that you are actually a descendant of the legendary emperors? And interestingly, the predecessors who fled from the despotic King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty named themselves after the things that saved them: Li, which stood for the wild fruit muzi, and Lin, the forest which was a hide-out from the king! Find out more fascinating details about 100 Chinese family names: * Difference between surnames and clan names. * Stories related to the most common surnames: Li, Wang, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, and more. * Naming traditions; names and fortune; manner of addressing. As the book covers the entire span of recorded Chinese history from the past to the present, you will find it an eye-opener as a reference manual and a delightful source of little-known facts.
Author | : Andrew Ellis |
Publisher | : Paradigm Publications |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Acupuncture |
ISBN | : 9780912111193 |
Point names, the traditional means of identifying acupoints, have meanings that are hard to grasp. This text promotes understanding of each point's use in acupuncture practice by considering the meaning, context and significance of each. The 363 points covered are listed according to the system currently in use in China.
Author | : Kheng Yew Goh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Names, Chinese |
ISBN | : 9789810074272 |
Author | : Emma Woo Louie |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2008-07-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786438770 |
The naming practices of Chinese Americans are the focus of this work. Since Chinese immigration began in the mid-19th century, names of immigrants and their descendants have been influenced by both Chinese and American name customs. This detailed study first describes the naming traditions of China, providing a base for understanding how personal names may change in the interaction between cultures. One discovers that surnames are clues to Chinese dialect sounds, that many have been Americanized, that new surnames were created and that, in more recent decades as the Chinese American population has grown, new names practices developed and surnames have proliferated. Included are ideographs to surnames and an overview of their preservation by Americans of Chinese descent.
Author | : Jing Tsu |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2022-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0735214743 |
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
Author | : Dorothy Astoria |
Publisher | : Bethany House |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2008-11-01 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1441202331 |
Baby-naming has become an art form with parents today, but where do parents go to find names and their meanings? The Name Book offers particular inspiration to those who want more than just a list of popular names. From Aaron to Zoe, this useful book includes the cultural origin, the literal meaning, and the spiritual significance of more than 10,000 names. An appropriate verse of Scripture accompanies each name, offering parents a special way to bless their children.
Author | : Sangkeun Kim |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820471303 |
One of the most precarious and daunting tasks for sixteenth-century European missionaries in the cross-cultural mission frontiers was translating the name of «God» (Deus) into the local language. When the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) introduced the Chinese term Shangti as the semantic equivalent of Deus, he made one of the most innovative cross-cultural missionary translations. Ricci's employment of Shangti was neither a simple rewording of a Chinese term nor the use of a loan-word, but was indeed a risk-taking «identification» of the Christian God with the Confucian Most-High, Shangti. Strange Names of God investigates the historical progress of the semantic configuration of Shangti as the divine name of the Christian God in China by focusing on Chinese intellectuals' reaction to the strangely translated Chinese name of God.