Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more d...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly A resolute yet naïve Chinese girl confronts poverty and culture shock with equal zeal when she and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn in Kwok's affecting coming-of-age debut. Ah-Kim Chang, or Kimberly as she is known in the U.S., had been a promising student in Hong Kong when her father died. Now she and her mother are indebted to Kimberly's Aunt Paula, who...(展开全部)

郭珍芳（Jean Kwok） 最受瞩目的华人作家之一。 5岁移民美国，童年时代在唐人街的制衣厂度过。她被哈佛大学提前录取，大学时期身兼4份工作。在哥伦比亚大学取得小说艺术硕士学位后，她在荷兰莱顿大学教授英文、从事英-荷语翻译，目前全职写作。 郭珍芳花10年时间写就《中国女孩耶鲁梦》，一举登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，已被介绍到17个国家，成为多所学校的必读书目。

Kimberly Chang has her world turned upside-down when she moves with her mother from their home in Hong Kong to New York. But their new life doesn't quite live up to their expectations - living in a vermin-ridden apartment in Brooklyn, the pair only have a sometimes working oven to keep warm. They have nothing but debt and neither of them speaks a word of English. While her moth...(展开全部)

簡介： 天寶．葛蘭汀，一位從自閉症世界另一端脫困而出的女子，透過《傾聽動物心語》一書，傳遞了動物如何思考與感覺的特異訊息。天寶具備動物科學家的專業訓練，本身又患有自閉症，讓她在這個領域裡擁有與眾不同的視野與角度。站在自閉症與動物的十字路口，她為二者都提供了無可比擬的觀察與前無古人的創見。 有自閉症的人經常以動物的思考模式來思考──事實上，葛蘭汀與本書另一位作者強生，把自閉症視為動物通往人類這條路上的中點站，因此有自閉症的人也就成為翻譯「動物語言」的最佳人選。天寶是一位忠實的嚮導，帶領我們進入動物的世界，探索他們的疼痛、恐懼、侵略性格、愛情、友誼、溝通交流、學習，甚至還有動物天賦。動物不但比任何人設想的都還要聰明，有時候甚至是絕頂聰明。 《傾聽動物心語》一書擁有全面的視野，天寶窮三十年動物科學研究的經驗，再加上個人自閉症背景的敏銳觀察...(展开全部)

簡介： 天寶．葛蘭汀，一位從自閉症世界另一端脫困而出的女子，透過《傾聽動物心語》一書，傳遞了動物如何思考與感覺的特異訊息。天寶具備動物科學家的專業訓練，本身又患有自閉症，讓她在這個領域裡擁有與眾不同的視野與角度。站在自閉症與動物的十字路口，她為二者都提供了無可比擬的觀察與前無古人的創見。 有自閉症的人經常以動物的思考模式來思考──事實上，葛蘭汀與本書另一位作者強生，把自閉症視為動物通往人類這條路上的中點站，因此有自閉症的人也就成為翻譯「動物語言」的最佳人選。天寶是一位忠實的嚮導，帶領我們進入動物的世界，探索他們的疼痛、恐懼、侵略性格、愛情、友誼、溝通交流、學習，甚至還有動物天賦。動物不但比任何人設想的都還要聰明，有時候甚至是絕頂聰明。 《傾聽動物心語》一書擁有全面的視野，天寶窮三十年動物科學研究的經驗，再加上個人自閉症背景的敏銳觀察...(展开全部)

Statements on the translation of literature from Roman times to the 1920s are collected in this book. Arranged thematically around the main topics which recur over the centuries - power, poetics, universe of discourse, language, education - "Translation/History/Culture" contains many texts previously unavailable in English, and translated here for the first time from classical,...(展开全部)

"Thinking Chinese Translation" is a practical and comprehensive course for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of Chinese. "Thinking Chinese Translation" explores the ways in which memory, general knowledge, and creativity (summed up as 'schema') contribute to the linguistic ability necessary to create a good translation. The course develops the reader's ability t...(展开全部)