Learning Chinese Language and Culture 學習漢語與文化 【Vol.1】

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: 9789882370609

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.*The QR code for downloading audio recordings of texts and vocabularies inside the book is updated, please kindly email [email protected] for the latest audio files after purchase.

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 One Contents
• 1. Is Chinese Difficultto Learn?
• 2. How are ChineseCharacters Created?
• 3. The Great Wall
• 4. The Name of China
• 5. Matchmaking
• 6. The Trouble withHomophones
• 7. Chinese Population andFamily Planning
• 8. Confucius
• 9. What is Fengshui?
• 10. Chinese Calligraphy and theFour Treasures of the Study
• 11. Chinese New Year andNew Year Money
• Appendix
• Grammar and Terms Index
• Cultural Content Index
• Exercise 11
• Exercise 10
• Exercise 9
• Exercise 8
• Exercise 7
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 1