"Complete Mandarin Chinese is a comprehensive book and audio language course that takes you from beginner to intermediate level. The all-new edition of this successful course has been fully rewritten by top Chinese professors to incorporate the most essential language you'll need to communicate in Chinese with confidence. New learning features will support you in your mastery of the four skills as well as your understanding of Chinese characters."--...

Presents a beginning language learning program designed to teach the listener Mandarin Chinese in progressive steps.

With eight hours of interactive audio-only instruction and practice sessions in real-life spoken dialogue, the Pimsleur Method provides the language-learning program with the highest success rates. Here, listeners will gain quick command of the Mandarin Chinese structure without tedious drills.

At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

Muzzy brings language to life for beginning to early intermediate learners, employing a natural immersion approach modeled on the way we all learn our first language. Children will learn about time, health and feelings, days of the week, people and places, the outdoors, transportation, what to wear, big, small and opposites, life at home, family and friends, and more.

Still life: "In Still life, great changes have come to the town of Fengjie due to the construction of the Three Gorges hydro project on the Yangtze River. Countless families that had lived there for many generations have had to relocate to other cities. Fengjie's old town, which has a 2000-year history, has been torn down and submerged forever." -- Container. Dong: "Jia Zhangke's first documentary film capturing painter Liu Xiaodong's creation of...