Becoming a Dragon : Forty Chinese Proverbs for Lifelong Learning and Classroom Study.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Readers' Guide -- Basic Proverbs -- Mistaking a Bow's Reflection for a Snake -- Playing the Zither to a Cow -- The Fox Assuming the Power of the Tiger -- Adding Eyes to a Painted Dragon -- Jingwei Fills Up the Sea -- Heaven Separates from Earth -- An Old Horse Knows the Way -- Tricks of a Donkey -- Pulling Up Rice Shoots to Help Them Grow -- The Dragon Lover Lord Ye -- The Fool Set on Moving a Mountain -- A Man from Zheng Shops for Shoes -- Your Own Spear Against Your Own Shield -- Intermediate Proverbs -- Dong Shi Mimics a Frown -- Learning to Walk in Handan -- Monkeys Rescuing the Moon -- A Cunning Rabbit Has Three Burrows -- Marking the Boat to Find Your Sword -- A Fake Player in the Band -- Aspiring to Become a Dragon -- The Man from Qi Who Worries About the Sky -- A Horse Lost Is a Stable Gained -- Three People Can Create a Tiger -- Waiting for Another Hare to Come Your Way -- Catching a Cicada, Blind to the Oriole -- Crossing the River in the Same Boat -- Sleeping on Sticks and Eating Bile -- Killing Two Birds with One Arrow -- The Fisherman Benefits from the Snipe Grappling with the Clam -- Advanced Proverbs -- Using a Picture to Find a Horse -- Seeing a Horse Whizzing by Through a Crack in the Wall -- Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Flaunting Their Magic Power -- No Tiger's Den, No Tiger's Cub -- High Mountains, Flowing Water -- Fiery Eyes with Golden Pupils -- Who Can Untie the Bell from the Tiger's Neck? -- Thick Willows and Colorful Bloom -- The Wind Ignores the Trees' Wishes -- A Promise Is Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold -- A Pillow and a Pot of Congee -- Alphabetical List -- Topical List -- Glossary -- Dynasties of China.

Becoming a Dragon: Forty Chinese Proverbs for Lifelong Learning and Classroom Study, is a bilingual (English-Chinese) collection of proverbs, popular phrases, and two-part allegorical sayings, designed for self-study and classroom teaching. Each proverb comes with the story behind the proverb and its source in both English and Chinese, a literal translation, the figurative meaning, an English equivalent, a vocabulary list, and examples of how the proverb is used in modern written and spoken Chinese.

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