Learning Chinese Language and Culture: Intermediate Chinese Textbook, Volume 2 - Softcover

Weijia Huang (editor) & Qun Ao (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9882370616 ISBN 13: 9789882370616

Publisher: The Chinese University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Learning Chinese Language and Culture is an intermediate level textbook, which was intended to be used throughout the entire school year and designed mainly for students who have completed introductory courses of Chinese as a foreign language. This book illustrates Chinese language knowledge and introduces Chinese culture in twenty-two lessons, covering a variety of cultural content, including customs and manners, holidays and festivals, poems and idioms, calligraphy and couplets, myths and legends, feng shui and superstitions, and historical relics and sceneries and many others. In every lesson, the authors have strived to maintain a clear topic and a coherent structure. They have also endeavored to keep the contents lively and achieve a fluent writing style while closely controlling the structure and grammar of every lesson.

About this title

About the Author

Weijia Huang is Senior Lecturer of the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Boston University.

Qun Ao is Professor of Chinese in the Department of Foreign Languages, U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Chinese University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9882370616
• ISBN 13: 9789882370616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284