Dialogues about China: Psychological Culture [+MP3-CD]. ISBN: 9787561937396

Format: book + MP3-CD
ISBN-10: 7-56-193739-3, 7561937393
ISBN-13: 978-7-56-193739-6, 9787561937396
English Title: Dialogues about China: Psychological Culture [+MP3-CD]
Chinese Title: 对话中国 心态文化篇（含1MP3）
Binding: softcover
Pages: 162
Shipping Weight: 360g
Language: simplified Chinese
Year of Publication: 2014
Publisher: Beijing Language and Culture University Press

Dialogues about China is a series of readers targeted at Chinese language learners, deciphering the Chinese culture from all aspects. The series centers on such Chinese cultural issues as has attracted extensive attention among foreigners and answers certain questions regarding cultural exchange, blending and collision through dialogues and case analyses. The easy, popular language and splendid, lively pictures used in the series enable readers to get a clearer understanding of China and the life of Chinese people.

This is the volume of Psychological Culture, focusing on the thoughts and concepts of Chinese people that often cause foreigners’ confusion or even misunderstanding, such as those regarding family, age-based and social hierarchy, time, hometown nostalgia, life and death, religion, privacy, peace and harmony, and money, etc. This book integrates society, history and philosophy into the analysis of how these thoughts, concepts and ways of thinking are formed, the cultural psychology behind them, and the changes in the thinking of contemporary Chinese people, thus ushering readers into the inner world of Chinese people.
 
An MP3 disk comes with the book, including the recordings of all the dialogues and short passages in the book. Readers can read the book while listening, feeling the ambience of Chinese culture.

About the Author
The author Dong Cui is a professor in ShenYang Normal University who has engaged in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, teaching Chinese culture and general social conditions and training overseas Chinese teachers for many years. Ms. Dong develops well-targeted Chinese teaching materials for the Confucius Institutes in Arabian areas. She is the chief author of An Overview of Chinese Culture.

对话中国 心态文化篇（含1MP3）
本册为《心态文化篇》，选取中国人容易令外国人困惑甚至误解的思想观念，如有关家庭、长幼尊卑、孝道、时间、乡情、生死、宗教、隐私、“和为贵”、金钱等等，结合社会、历史、哲学等深刻分析这些思想观念和思维方式是如何形成的，其背后深藏着怎样的文化心理，当代中国人的思想观念又发生了怎样的变化，带领读者走进中国人的内心世界。
    
本书附有MP3光盘一张，录有全书的对话和短文，读者可以听读结合，更全面地感受中国文化。

作者简介
董萃，沈阳师范大学教授，长期从事对外汉语教学、中国文化与中国社会概况教学、海外汉语教师培训工作，为国家汉办阿拉伯地区孔子学院开发具有针对性的汉语教材，曾主编《中国文化概要》。

编辑推荐
第一，本书所讲述的文化点，如中国人的姓氏是怎么来的？什么是“百善孝为先”？为什么中国人请客时那么“浪费”？何为“君子”？何为“小人”？中国人为什么逢佛必拜？……都是以问卷形式从外国学习者中收集而来，是外国人最关心、最感兴趣或最困惑的思想观念问题，读过本书你可以从中找到答案。
    
第二，本书是图文书，文字精炼生动，大量精美的图片是对文字准确、生动的注解，打开本书你就会进入一种浓郁的中国文化意境，令你对中国的心态文化有更清晰的认识和感受。