measure words

[Qiuyue]

I am looking for text-books about measure words, or alt., books with long chapters or lists of measure words (german or english). I haven´t found any at the bookstores in shanghai, and on Amazon they only had two books on chinese measure words, both by the same author and both without reviews or ratings. Has anyone any tips?

(I know there is a list on Wiki, but as I live in China I cant reach it )

[Hero Doug]

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[tlevine]

I found a pretty good book about measure words in the Wangfujing Bookstore and the other book store in Wangfujing, (I forgot the name. It has "foreign" in it.) so you must be able to find it in Shanghai. The book's called "量词一点通:The Prompt Understanding of Measure Words."

The editorial note says that the "book covers 157 common measure words in the following four categories: measure words for nouns, measure words for verbs, double-function measure words and compound measure words."

EDIT: I just noticed that it is published by BLCU.

[elina]

Some foreigners like this book called 汉英量词词典:

http://www.dangdang.com/product/8737/8737024.shtml

Some details inside:

http://photo.163.com/photos/elinasatter/16691410/401723001/

http://photo.163.com/photos/elinasatter/16691410/401699083/

http://photo.163.com/photos/elinasatter/16691410/401697752/

[boomerang]

A Chinese-English Dictionary of Measure Words is what I have, and I like it a lot. It goes through the measure words with a brief explanation of its usage and then many examples for each. It is published by Sinolingua - I haven't seen a bad Chinese reference book from them yet. Pick them up while in China, they are super cheap.

[liuzhou]

Getting around the Chinese firewall is incredibly easy with Opera (Not sure about other browsers).

Follow the simple instructions if you're interested.

or just use www.wikimirror.com

[pattifranklin]

I have the book that Boomerang wrote about - " A chinese- english dictionary of measure words" by sinolingua. I love the book and it has really helped me out when I have to write an essay or some other stories etc.