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The functions of punning utterances in English and Chinese: a cross-cultural perspective [PDF]
Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 Capitalizing on the universal linguistic feature of ambiguity, punning utterances can be found in languages as distinct as the Indo-European, marginally inflected English and the Sino-Tibetan, monosyllabic, inflectionless Chinese.
Agnieszka Solska
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Navigating WeChat in COVID Times as a Chinese Care Home Resident
Journal of Long-Term Care, 2022 Context: In New Zealand, COVID-19-related lockdowns led to the implementation of visiting restrictions in care homes. This placed residents at risk of isolation.
Doris Zhang +3 more
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Topos And Entelechy In The Ethos Of Reclusion In China [PDF]
, 1994 While the topos of reclusion was ubiquitous in the scholar-official culture of traditional China, there was already in medieval sources a discernible differentiation between essentiality and semblance, between bona fide men in reclusion and men who took ...
Berkowitz, Alan
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Журнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2021 The article is devoted to the regional peculiarities of ethnic policy having been analyzed on the example of Transbaikal region of Russian Empire. During the period under investigation it was a kind of national outlying district which lagged behind other
Lilia V. Kalmina
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Hidden Spoor, Ruan Xiaoxu, And His Treatise On Reclusion [PDF]
, 1991 In early medieval China great attention was paid to compiling accounts of men in reclusion, yet the prefaces to these compilations often contain only vague or stale reasoning concerning the nature of reclusion itself. A preface by Shen Yue (441-513) is a
Berkowitz, Alan
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Primary dentition occlusion in Chinese, Indian and Malay groups in Malaysia
Australasian Orthodontic Journal, 1988 A survey of the primary occlusion in the three ethnic groups, Chinese, Indians and Malays was carried out in Malaysian preschool children between the ages of 3 to 6 years.
Woon Kok Chin
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Association of sirtuin 1 gene polymorphisms with nephrolithiasis in Eastern chinese population
Renal Failure, 2019 Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1), an NAD+-dependent deacylase, has been identified to be associated with renal tubular inflammatory conditions and metabolic disorders, which are risk factors of nephrolithiasis.
Jiebin Hou +5 more
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Guanxi and the organization of Chinese new year festivals in England [PDF]
, 2014 This article explores how Chinese diaspora communities use guanxi, a unique Chinese interpretation of personal relationships, in the organization of Chinese New Year (CNY) festivals in England.
Fu, Y, Long, P, Thomas, R
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eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2018 Beth Yahp’s The Crocodile Fury (1992), K.S. Maniam’s Haunting the Tiger (1996), and Shirley Lim’s Life’s Mysteries (1995) articulate the ambivalence of interpreting the cultural beliefs of the Malays, Chinese, and Indians of the former Malaya with the ...
Sathyabhama Daly
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Transforming tradition: performances of Jingju ('Beijing Opera') in the UK [PDF]
, 2011 Jingju (‘Beijing opera’) is China's most iconic traditional theatre, marketed as a global signifier of Chinese theatre and national identity. Although troupes from mainland China regularly tour Europe, audiences in the UK have also had access to Jingju ...
al-‘Azm +18 more
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