Learning Chinese Language and Culture 學習漢語與文化 【Vol.2】

Intermediate Chinese Textbook 中級漢語課本

Weijia Huang and Qun Ao

• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9789882370616

Learning Chinese Language and Cultureis 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.

Table of contents

• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Synopsis
• About the Authors
• Abbreviations of Parts of Speech
• The Chinese Phonetic Alphabet
• Chronology of Chinese History
• Book Two Contents
• 12. Chinese Valentine’s Day
• 13. Equality of Men and Women
• 14. Every Family Has TheirElderly Members
• 15. Special Foods forFestivals and Holidays
• 16. Touring Around China
• 17. Myths and Folklore
• 18. The Origins ofChinese Idioms
• 19. The Implications of Colors
• 20. “To Suffer Losses is Good Fortune”and “It’s Hard to Pretend to BeConfused”
• 21. Religious Beliefs ofChinese People
• 22. The Three Gorges ofthe Yangtze River
• Appendix
• Grammar and Terms Index
• Exercise 22
• Exercise 21
• Exercise 20
• Exercise 19
• Exercise 18
• Exercise 17
• Exercise 16
• Exercise 15
• Exercise 14
• Exercise 13
• Exercise 12