Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan’s Chinese New Year (Reading Rainbow Books)
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On the Chinese New Year, six-year-old Ernie will perform his first Lion Dance. An intimate look at a Chinese household as the family shares a proud moment with Ernie. “A strong supplement for its immediacy, its vibrant color, and its sympathetic look at a Chinese family.”–School Library Journal. A Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.
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A wonderful book for introducing Chinese New Year,
This book is one of my favorite books for Chinese New Year celebration. The authors successfully capture the lively and warm atmosphere of New Year celebrating among Chinese. Through the realistic photograph as well as the text, the authors show readers the custom of the Chinese New Year, such as offering food and incense at the altar and wearing new clothes in New Year. In addition, the authors also appendix the Chinese horoscope to the end of the book. The Chinese horoscope is an important part of the Chinese culture and is still widely used among the Chinese community. The Chinese characters in the horoscope are also written correctly and beautifully in Chinese paint brush to represent the artistic aspect of Chinese writing system.
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|Liondance fan!,
I thought the book was very interesting with wonderful pictures
for children to look at. Despite being written for children to enjoy, it gave some insight to anyone, curious about this aspect of Chinese culture.
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|Demystifying the Lion,
If you have small children,their first encounter with the lion can be the stuff bad dreams are made of. Our 16-month-old son was both frightened and intrigued by the lion that came to the Chinese restaurant where our friends’ son was enjoying his first birthday. The book follows Ernie Wan through his preparation to his first lion dance one Chinese New Year’s day in New York’s Chinatown. You see the customs and rituals that lead up to his debut. More important, you see the closeness of his family and the value of rites of passage in gathering people together. My family is not Chinese but my wife and I have immigrant parents. If you are trying to demonstrate why maintaining your cultural heritage is worthwhile, Lion Dancer will support your cause. My son literally drools on the pictures of the Chinese dishes and the kung-fu kicks of the lions amid the firecracker smoke. If I have a single criticism, it’s that the pages of this paperback will fall out after repeated reading. And if I’m entitled to menion one mature indulgence, the book includes a section describing the personalities of the various animals in the Chinese lunar year. You might agree that the year you were born is more telling than the month.
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|Useful US view of China’s recent foreign relations,
Robert Sutter, after a 33-year career in the US state, is now a visiting professor of Asian studies at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He gives an informative and comprehensive survey of China’s foreign relations since 1990, from an official US viewpoint.
He examines China’s general foreign policy, priorities, decision-making, role in the world economy and national security policies. Then follow chapters on China’s relations with the USA, with Taiwan, Japan and Korea, with South-East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, with South and Central Asia, with Russia and Europe, and with the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
China’s current approach stresses good neighbour relations designed to wean states, especially nearby ones, away from potentially balancing coalitions. It uses its growing economic strength to increase dependence on the part of potential rivals, and accommodates the reigning hegemon, the USA, while exploiting dissatisfaction with it to create buffers and guard against its dominance. China tries to keep its borders free from great-power presence. It supports Asia-only groupings of states, so it is playing a larger role in ASEAN Plus Three (China, Japan and South Korea).
Looking at China’s relations with the USA, Sutter takes for granted the US state’s ‘interest in peace’. He writes, ‘The Chinese government has resorted to the use of force in international affairs more than most governments in the modern period’ – but not nearly as often as the USA ‘ 47 overseas military interventions since 1989.
China and the USA have conflicting interests over the international balance of power, NATO expansion, the US role in East Asia (especially its increasingly close alliance with Japan), the USA’s growing military ties to Taiwan, US hostility to Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Sudan, Serbia, Myanmar, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Cuba, and US deployment of its missile ‘defence’ system. China opposes the sanctions and other coercive measures that the US state routinely imposes. US policies of isolation and containment of China have failed, but the US state still pursues a hazardous policy of military encirclement of China, especially on its western borders.
Yet the USA and China are also becoming mutually dependent as China joins the finance capital club. China depends on the USA for investments and for its growing foreign exchange earnings from cheap exports. The USA depends on China to save key US banks and other firms by buying them up. There is a growing danger of conflicts between states.
The EU’s trade deficit with China was $127 billion in 2005, up from $40 billion in 2000. Free trade with low-wage, anti-union China threatens Britain’s industries in particular.
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|Strongly Recommended,
A great, balanced, and comprehensive review about the subject that is captivating and well written. I preferred this book over 6 or 7 others on the shelf of the university library.
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