Make no mistake — this new Shanghainese textbook’s audience is foreigners. Although there are some Chinese instructions or translations here or there, the overall impression is of devotion to the English-speaking foreigner. This is not a Mandarin textbook, and as a result you will find no pinyin. All pronunciation is given in IPA. The CD comes with the book. What impressed me about the CD was that the dialogues were between older speakers instead of young people. Living in Shanghai, I feel that I most often hear Shanghainese spoken by middle-aged men and women women (think convenience store clerks, guards, taxi drivers).
Through Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian novels, millions of readers have enjoyed the pleasures and intrigue of a bygone age. Now, with the debut of an extraordinary new series, this New York Times bestselling author sweeps us into the golden summer of 1914, a time of brief enchantment when English men and women basked in the security of wealth and power, even as the last weeks of their privileged world were swiftly passing. Theirs was a peace that led to war.
Drawing on criminal and other records to assess the character of violence among non-elite Spaniards, this work finds that appealing to honour was a rhetorical strategy, and that insults, gestures, and violence were all part of a varied repertoire that allowed both men and women to decide how to dispute issues of truth and reputation.
Here is an original and exciting guide to the magic and beauty of dance around the world. Step-by-step sequences and glorious full-color photographs offer a unique eyewitness view of dance traditions including the magical performances, stunning costumes and extraordinary talent of dancers. See a ballet costume designed by Picasso, dancers who balance on stilts, and headdresses studded with gemstones. Learn why male dancers sometimes dress as women, the stories of the great classical ballets, and why the tango was banned. Discover why Javanese dancers "flow like water," see dance crazes from the last 100 years, witness the dervishes who whirl around in worship, and much, much more.
Byzantine primary sources portray women as both public and secluded figures. Scholars have suggested that idealized stereotypes of secluded chaste women or fluctuations in the actual practice of secluding women could explain the discrepancy. Neither of these theories satisfactorily explains the contradictions. This study determines that by tracing the practice of secluding women in the gynaeceum, or women's quarters, from its origins in the ancient Greek world through to the Byzantine period, the dichotomy can be solved. By studying the ancient gynaeceum it is determined that wealthier women were secluded, but they could leave their homes for certain acceptable reasons.
