Cantonese


Cantonese Complete Course (Teach Yourself)
Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars)
Colloquial Cantonese: The Complete Course for Beginners
Intermediate Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks)
Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks)
Cantonese: Since the Nineteenth Century
Cantonese for Everyone (English and Chinese Edition)
Everyday Cantonese for Parents: Learn Cantonese: a practical Cantonese phrasebook with parenting phrases to communicate with your children and learn Cantonese at home. JYUTPING edition
Assimil le cantonais sans peine SUPERPACK [livre +4 Audio CD's + 1 CD MP3] (Cantonese Edition)
A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs And City Life (English and Chinese Edition)
Cantonese Culture: Aspects of Life in Modern Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (Travel/Hong Kong/Se Asia)
Dim Sum: A Pocket Guide
Cantonese characters from HSK level 1 with stroke order
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Cantonese Flashcards: 800 Important Cantonese-English and English-Cantonese Flash Cards
South China Morning Blues by Ray HechtFactory Girls by Leslie T. ChangAdventure, romance and war in the Far East by Iris Hay-EdiePearl of China by Anchee MinPearl River Drama by Ray Hecht
Books Set in SOUTH CHINA
35 books — 18 voters
粵語的政治:香港語言文化的異質與多元 by 文潔華粵語詞彙講義 by 邵慧君香港粵語 二百年滄桑探索 by 張洪年中文解毒 by 陳雲Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960 by Gina Anne Tam
粵語 / 廣東話 Cantonese
45 books — 1 voter

Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia DunlopEvery Grain of Rice by Fuchsia DunlopServe the People by Jen Lin-LiuThe Breath of a Wok by Grace YoungThe Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
CHINESE Food Writing & Cookbooks
50 books — 20 voters
Tai-Pan by James ClavellNoble House by James ClavellSouth China Morning Blues by Ray HechtThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamEating Smoke by Chris Thrall
Books Set in Hong Kong
146 books — 119 voters

Crazy Dumplings by Amanda   RobertsEvery Grain of Rice by Fuchsia DunlopLand of Fish and Rice by Fuchsia DunlopThe Breath of a Wok by Grace YoungThe Key to Chinese Cooking by Irene Kuo
Best Chinese Cookbooks
48 books — 9 voters

John Lanchester
...Mandarin sounds like someone chewing a brandy glass full of wasps and Cantonese sounds like people having an argument. The written language of both dialects, incidentally, is the same.
John Lanchester, Fragrant Harbor

Hannah Tunnicliffe
I pass the bakery on the corner, the smells hitting me before I reach the shop itself. They are thick and sweet. Cars are double-parked down our street, locals dashing from the passenger doors to pick up their breakfast. A long queue snakes from the entrance. Inside there are piles of pork buns, slices of dark honey cake, rolls topped with pork floss, bread with ham laid on top and stuck fast with melted cheese. It is a different smell from bakeries back home. I tried a loaf of bread once, but t ...more
Hannah Tunnicliffe, The Color of Tea

More quotes...
Books4Parents You don’t need to be a parent to be in this book club, just thought this matches with the IG the…more
4 members, last active one year ago