This book is an ancient Chinese poem primer for intermediate or advanced Chinese learners who like ancient Chinese literature. There are altogether 104 poems in this book, including 73 Tang poems and 31 Song poems. Most of them are five-syllable or seven-syllable quatrains. They are short and easy to understand, read and recite. Pinyin and English annotations are provided for learners to study. This book is accompanied by an MP3.
This teaching material is a special purpose Chinese course for advanced learners of Chinese preparing to study economics at universities in China or are for other reasons interested in the professional terminology of this field.
Panda Diplomacy contains 18 short articles in simplified characters with a text length of 700-1200 Chinese words each. Hanyu Pinyin and English translation is provided along with the new words.
This book is designed for quasi-advanced level Chinese learners to prepare for reading Chinese newspapers and magazines. Material selection focus on fun and new ideas. Prior to the preparation of this teaching material, 130 quasi-advanced-level students were asked to make questionnaires about the degree of interest in newspapers and periodicals, giving priority to the topics of interest to students, and at the same time, selected some articles that reflect the new emergence of China in recent years. New things reported, so that the textbook content is both interesting and full of new ideas.
Friends Chinese graded readers for adults, new HSK level 6 - 5000 word level with 10 short essays. The essays consist of the vocabulary of new HSK level 6 and have to some extent additional words which are given at the side with pinyin and English translation. The main texts are in simplified Chinese only. There are also exercises included which are quite simple, so the answers are not given. The other titles from this series include books for adults or for kids and teenagers - in corresponding levels to new HSK 1-6. There is 1 MP3-CD included in the set.
Friends - Chinese Graded Readers [for Adults] [Level 6]: Chinese Wife and Chinese Delicacies [+MP3-CD]. Friends Chinese graded readers for adults, new HSK level 6 - 5000 word level with 10 short essays. The essays consist of the vocabulary of new HSK level 6 and have to some extent additional words which are given at the side with pinyin and English translation. The main texts are in simplified Chinese only. There are also exercises included which are quite simple, so the answers are not given. The other titles from this series include books for adults or for kids and teenagers - in corresponding levels to new HSK 1-6. There is 1 MP3-CD included in the set.
This is a series of Chinese newspaper reading textbooks designed specifically for international students in China. It can help learners with intermediate Chinese proficiency rapidly improve their ability to read Chinese newspapers and their Chinese proficiency as a whole. The series contains two volumes. The 12 lessons in each volume are divided into three units and each unit is provided with a unit review.
Friends - Chinese Graded Readers [for Adults] [Level 6]: The Small Island Facing the Sea [+MP3-CD]. Friends Chinese graded readers for adults, new HSK level 6 - 5000 word level with 10 short essays. The essays consist of the vocabulary of new HSK level 6 and have to some extent additional words which are given at the side with pinyin and English translation. The main texts are in simplified Chinese only. There are also exercises included which are quite simple, so the answers are not given. The other titles from this series include books for adults or for kids and teenagers - in corresponding levels to new HSK 1-6. There is 1 MP3-CD included in the set.
Short-Term Reading Chinese is a series of textbooks written according to the characteristics of students of short-term training courses. Focusing on improving the students’ ability in reading and comprehending Chinese texts and paragraphs, it combines intensive reading with fast reading and integrates some typical questions in HSK reading tests into the exercises. The selected texts cover a wide range of genres and styles and encompass a great number of topics and hot issues concerning all aspects of modern China so as to familiarize the students with the cultural background knowledge relevant to language learning. The series includes five volumes, namely Threshold, Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate and Advanced. Each volume comprises 12 lessons and each lesson is composed of two parts: intensive reading and fast reading. Both parts include new words, notes, texts and exercises. Each volume is suitable for students in a summer training course or a short-term training course of 6-10 weeks. This is the advanced volume, which is designed for learners who have already mastered 3,500 Chinese words.
It is a Chinese textbook for elective course for CSL students, one of the newspaper reading course books in the series of Times published by Beijing Language and Culture University Press. Volume 2 is an advanced level book targeted at students in the last semester of the third year.
Chinese Culture mainly teaches Chinese cultural knowledge, assisting with Chinese language teaching as well. This book pays attention to the scientific soundness of the knowledge, using a common language and a lot of images supporting the text. It is suitable for foreigners with intermediate Chinese proficiency or above or native speakers who want to learn about Chinese culture.
Business Chinese: Advanced Reading is the reading course for advanced learners of business Chinese. It aims at helping students acquire knowledge about Chinese language, and commercial knowledge and culture, to improve their reading skills, commercial and cross-cultural communication skills. This series, suitable for classroom teaching and self-taught learners, pays close attention to the integration of traditional and modern teaching ideas and puts emphasis on the practicability of teaching. It shows the openness of teaching, attaches importance to covering many language styles and selects words with clear commercial characteristics on certain criteria. It is divided into two volumes. Each volume, based on topics, has 8 units, each with 4 lessons. The series of textbooks has altogether 64 lessons and is used in an academic year. This is Volume 1.
Reading China through Newspaper is an up-to-date study of Chinese newspapers that are in print not only in the mainland but as well as those published by overseas Chinese. This course addresses the importance of the changing dynamic in the media as well as the demographic it represents. Unlike other readers or Chinese newspaper collection books, this textbook does introduce the history of Chinese newspapers as well as its general content, characteristics and genres. The second book An Advanced Reader of Current Affairs in Chinese Newspapers furthers the author’s main motives by sampling articles about current global affairs from Chinese newspapers.
This book is a collection of simulated reading tests written according to the New HSK Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus (Level 6). 12 complete reading tests with answers and detailed explanation of answers are provided.
Friends - Chinese Graded Readers [for Kids and Teenagers] [Level 6]: Healthy and Delicious Chinese Food [+MP3-CD]. Friends is a set of Chinese graded readers for non-native Chinese students, which can be used both in and out of the class for readers of all ages.
Liuxuesheng Hanyu Fenji Yuedu Zhinan is for Chinese students who are looking for extra reading texts on cultural education, language and ethnic groups, literature, history and geography, science and technology, arts and sports, philosophy and social sciences, and politics and economics. In each chapter, reading materials are recommended, with introductions from one-half to one page presented and sorted by difficulty of HSK levels, from level 3 (600 vocabulary), level 4 (1200 vocabulary), level 5 (2500 vocabulary), Level 6 (5000 vocabulary) and above level 6 with a vocabulary of 5000+.
Glimpses of Contemporary China Series tells stories of ordinary Chinese people’s daily lives, and displays different aspects of Chinese society. This will help readers to gain a greater and real-to-life knowledge of Chinese culture while learning Chinese.
Friends - Chinese Graded Readers [for Kids and Teenagers] [Level 6]: The Sea in the Morning [+MP3-CD]. Friends is a set of Chinese graded readers for non-native Chinese students, which can be used both in and out of the class for readers of all ages.
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. 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. Suitable for intermediate to advanced learners who are able to read Chinese texts fluently.
Studies on TCFL Reading and Writing Classroom Instructions collects the research findings in the "Observing Activities of the TCFL Reading and Writing Classroom Instructions" organized by Student Affairs Office, Beijing Language and Culture University. This book includes 23 papers respectively falling into the following four parts: the teaching of primary Chinese reading, the teaching of intermediate Chinese reading, the teaching of newspaper and business reading, and the teaching of Chinese writing.
Glimpses of Contemporary China Series tells stories of ordinary Chinese people’s daily lives, and displays different aspects of Chinese society. This will help readers to gain a greater and real-to-life knowledge of Chinese culture while learning Chinese.
Erya Chinese·The Basics of Chinese Culture (II), a cultural reader for intermediate students, can be used by international students at Chinese colleges or universities taking Chinese Language or International Education of Chinese Language majors in the second semester of their second year. It can also be used as a textbook for teachers to teach Chinese culture or as an extracurricular reader for students interested in Chinese culture in countries other than China.
This is a set of books designed for a newspaper reading class. The whole set includes two volumes; each volume contains eight topics, and each topic has a main text and a supplementary text, discussions, new words, and explanations of morphemes, function words and sentence patterns.
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.
This textbook is designed based on topics, each including warm-up activities, teaching objectives, texts, new words, cultural notes, exercises, and oral expressions. The textbook involves 17 hot topics in contemporary China, such as “high-speed rail”, “employment attitudes”, and “mobile phone culture”, etc., all of which correspond to the background of the times, so they can arouse wide discussions and make students come up things to say; the new words include Pinyin, notes and typical example sentences, which take full consideration of students’ vocabulary learned. The cultural notes, which are designed after the new words, observe the principle of combining language teaching with cultural teaching; the exercises check how well students learned the texts; and the oral expressions include discussions, speeches and debates, all of which are closely related to the texts, aiming to improve students’ oral expression ability.
Business Chinese: Advanced Reading is the reading course for advanced learners of business Chinese. It aims at helping students acquire knowledge about Chinese language, and commercial knowledge and culture, to improve their reading skills, commercial and cross-cultural communication skills. This series, suitable for classroom teaching and self-taught learners, pays close attention to the integration of traditional and modern teaching ideas and puts emphasis on the practicability of teaching. It shows the openness of teaching, attaches importance to covering many language styles and selects words with clear commercial characteristics on certain criteria. It is divided into two volumes. Each volume, based on topics, has 8 units, each with 4 lessons. The series of textbooks has altogether 64 lessons and is used in an academic year. This is Volume 2.
Read for Joy – An International Chinese Reading Series - Volume 5. This volume is suitable for learners who already are mastering HSK5. This book is composed of twelve lessons. The recommended teaching time for each lesson is 4-5 class hours.