This book contains the problems and solutions of two contests: the Chinese National High School Competition from 1981–82 to 1992–93, and the Chinese Mathematical Olympiad from 1985–86 to 1992–93.
China, today an emerging world industrial power, underwent almost continuous revolutionary change throughout the 20th century. In the fierce battle for control of China in the years following the 1911 revolution, Mao Zedong emerged as the dominant leader, promising a society free of inequality, poverty and foreign control.
There is a new cultural phenomenon sweeping China, and, although little Western attention has been paid to its potential social implications. The name of the game is Crazy English and its purveyor is Chinese superstar Li Yang. Droves of Chinese citizens are buying into Li Yang’s program to help China rise to a position of global power by improving their spoken English. Li tells his audiences that English is the international language of commerce and foreign affairs, so let’s master it
In this important new study, Judith Oster looks at the literature of Chinese Americans and Jewish Americans in relation to each other. Among the figures Oster considers are writers of autobiographical works like Maxine Hong Kingston and Eva Hoffman and writers of fiction: Amy Tan, Anzia Yezierska, Henry Roth, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Lan Samantha Chang, and Frank Chin.
This book offers a fresh and nuanced perspective into contemporary Chinese literature by presenting four authors and cultural bastards—Duo Duo, an underground seer-poet; Wang Shuo, a “hooligan” writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old Red Guard and new cultural heretic; and Wang Xiaobo, a defiant yet melancholy chronicler of a dystopian modern world.
