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Yuehua Liu and Chengzhi Chu

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I really want to find her...

Yuehua Liu and Chengzhi Chu

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Yuehua Liu
A graduate of the Chinese Department of Peking University, 1
Yuehua Liu was Professor in Chinese at the Beijing Language 1
and Culture University. In 1989she continued her professional ]

career in the United States and had taught Chinese at Wellesley \

| College, MIT, and Harvard University for many years. Her ]
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research concentrated on modem Chinese grammar, especially
-----------------------grammar for teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Her major I
publications include Practical Modem Chinese Grammar (co-author), Comprehen- I
sive Studies of Chinese Directional Complements, and Writings on Chinese Gram- 1
mar as well as the Chinese textbook series Integrated Chinese (chief editor) and the
audio-video textbook set Learning Advanced Colloquial Chinese from TV (co- 1
author).
Chengzhi Chu
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Ph.D., University of Hawaii. Chu is Assistant Professor and

Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program at the University j

of California, Davis, where he also serves as Chair of the ;
Designated Emphasis of Ph.D. Programs in Second Language 1
Acquisition and is a member of the Graduate Faculty Group of
Linguistics. He is a board member of the Chinese Language I
---------------------- Teachers Association (USA) and Vice President of the Chinese 1
Language Teachers Association of California. He taught at Stanford University and
Beijing Language and Culture University for many years. He has published more than
20 articles on topics in Chinese linguistics, Chinese pedagogy, and cognitive
semantics, and has a forthcoming book on motion conceptualization and representa- |
tion in Chinese. He was PI of two major software projects in Chinese pedagogy and i
acquisition: ChineseTA and the Corpus of Chinese Interlanguage.
Jinhai Wen
Graduated from Xiamen University and now living in
Beijing, Wen is a professional Chinese writer. He is a
I member of the All-China Writers Association and was se- j
lected as a represent-ative of the 6th and 7th China's Writers j
Congresses. His publications include the novels Get into the
Underworld, Zhongguocun March, and Force-out, prose
----------- collection Love Forever, and reportages Who will Prop up
China Tomorrow and Let the Life be Full of Sunshine.

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Contents
1. A girls picture
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I really want to find her...

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3 . Where is the girl in the picture

4 . Qiutian is missing
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5 . Bring books to the girl

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6 . Please take me to her right now!

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I also want to tell you

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8. ! I like Pearl Lake too!

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M ain Characters and M ain Places

Lu 6 s Tjiaoshou: Professor Ross

D^iiwj: A graduate student at a US university

Jiefu: A graduate student at a US university

QiCiti6n: A graduate student at a US university

Jima: A Chinese girl who is a university graduate

ZhngzhG Hu: Pearl Lake

Yunnan: Yunnan Province (in south-west China)
KCinmfng: Kunmingcapital city of the Yunnan province
Lijiang: A historic town in Yunnan
BijTng: You know it!

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fall ill
die, pass away
hill, mountain
lake
else, other
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smile, laugh
school
be on holidays or vacation
so, so much
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= a mood particle
last year
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or perplexity
do, handle, tackle
every, each
if, suppose, in case
What to do?
happy, be blessed
street
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a classifier used (respectfully) before
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hear of
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road, route
youqian
be in the money, rich, wealthy
zuihou
last, final; finally
zaishuo
furthermore, besides
meiyisi
boring, not interesting
houlai
later, afterwards
shangmian above, over, on top or surface of
shou
receive, accept
zhT
only, just, merely
ylxiazi
at one blow, at a draught; right off
fang
put, place; lay aside
houmian
behind, at the back, in the rear
fenzhong
minute
haoxiang
as if, look like, seem
liuxue
study abroad
shangxue
go to school, attend school
shenghuo
life, livelihood; live
changge
sing (a song)
tlngjian
hear
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pleasant to hear, melodious
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story.

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Two children seeking the Joy Bridge

7 8

Sirwhere is the air-ticket office?

You two kids come to buy air-tickets? Are you gonna travel
somewhere?
Nope. We just wanna go up to the Joy Bridge.
The Joy Bridge?
Of the two children at the airport to buy air-tickets, one is 7 and the
other is 8. Beyond their wildest imaginings, after they ran away, their
parents were called by some crooks who demanded a ransom to get them
back! And o f course, nobody knows the location of the Joy Bridge that
the two children intend to go see.

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Wrong, wrong, wrong!

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June 8. Beijing. A pretty girl lies dead on the floor o f her luxury
home. A slip o f paper found on her body readsIm tired. Let me
leave... At the bottom of the slip is a signature: Lin Shuang-shuang.
Shuang-shuang has a twin-sister called Dui-dui. The two girls look
so similar that others can hardly tell w hos who. Is the one who died
really Shuang-shuang? Then where is Dui-dui? If the one who died is
Dui-dui as someone claimed, then why is the signature on the slip Lin
Shuang-shuang?

Can I dance with you?

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A smart young man suddenly gets into big trouble. He just fell in
love with a pretty girl a few days ago, but now the police are at his home
and want to arrest him. The bank he works for lost 10 million dollars, and
the police list him as a suspect.
O f course he is not the robber! He even knows who did it. But can
he find evidence to prove it to the police? Its all just too much. Also, will
he be able to see his girlfriend again?

Left and right: the conjoined brothers

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Left and Right are two brothers. Even their parents dont know who
is older and who is younger, as they are Siamese twins. They must do
everything together. They play together, eat together, and sleep together.
Most of the time they enjoy their lives and are very happy. When one was
sick, the other helped his brother take his medicine and he got better.
However, it
s no fun anymore when they sit in class together but one
brother dislikes the others subjects...

The story of Zhongguancun

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Xie Hong, Fang Xins tru love, has gone abroad to fulfill her dream.
But Fang Xin only wants to stay in Zhongguancun in Beijing doing work
that he enjoys. Xiao-yue comes to visit Fang Xin every day. She is the
one who really understands Fang Xin. She loves him and can offer him
the help that he badly needs. But only Xie Hong is in Fang Xins mind.
What should Fang Xin do? He seems to be losing his way in life...

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her...

She is really beautiful. Just one look at her photo and three guys, Daiwei, Jie-fu and Qiu-tian, are all determined to find her! The photo was
given to them by their professor before he died. And nobody knows where
in China the girl is. How can the guys find her? And what happens when
they finally see her?

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