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| chinese language and culture: Learning Chinese Language and Culture Weijia Huang, Qun Ao, 2020-03-15 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. Written in English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, this book illustrates Chinese language knowledge and introduces Chinese culture in twentytwo 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. |
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| chinese language and culture: The Chinese Language John DeFrancis, 1986-03-01 DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone. --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted. --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley |
| chinese language and culture: Politics of Chinese Language and Culture Bob Hodge, Kam Louie, 2012-11-12 An innovative text which adopts the tools of cultural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora and employs the concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading. Covering a range of cultural texts, it will help to break down the boundaries around the ideas and identities of East and West and provide a more relevant analysis of the Chinese and China. |
| chinese language and culture: Barron's AP Chinese Language and Culture Yan Shen, 2009-08-01 This brand-new manual prepares students for a subject that has just been added to the Advanced Placement program. Separate sections review all parts of the new exam: Listening, Reading, Grammar, Speaking, and Culture. Each section also includes exercises, and the listening and reading sections include practice questions with answer keys and answer explanations. The book reflects the AP exam’s standards, presenting questions in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. Two full-length practice exams are presented with answer keys. Enclosed with the manual are three audio compact discs, which present spoken material covering the exam’s Listening and Speaking sections. |
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| chinese language and culture: Studies in Chinese Language and Culture Christoph Anderl, Halvor Eifring, Christoph Harbsmeier, 2006 |
| chinese language and culture: Speaking of Chinese Raymond Chang, Margaret Scrogin Chang, 2001 This pleasant, unpretentious account [is] a small stream leading to the ocean of the culture of China.--Scientific American |
| chinese language and culture: Understanding the Chinese Language Chris Shei, 2014-10-03 Understanding the Chinese Language provides a vibrant and comprehensive introduction to contemporary Chinese linguistics. Combining an accessible style with an in-depth treatment of the topics at hand, it uses clear, full descriptions and vivid, modern examples to systematically take students through the phonology, vocabulary, grammar, discourse structures and pragmatics of modern Chinese. No prior knowledge of Chinese or linguistics is required. Features include: Six detailed chapters covering the core linguistic aspects of the modern Chinese language, such as words, content units, sentences, speech acts, sentence-final particles and neologisms User-friendly comparisons and contrasts between English and Chinese throughout the text, helping to clearly explain important complexities and nuances of the Chinese language Clear, accessible explanations and insightful analysis of topics and linguistic devices, supported by many helpful examples, diagrams and tables Vivid and relevant examples drawn from real-life contemporary sources such as internet news reports, social networks like Sino Weibo, online forums and TV reality shows, offering fascinating perspectives on modern Chinese media, culture and society Pioneering coverage of Chinese new words and the social phenomena they reveal Additional exercises and four supplementary chapters covering Chinese syllables, idioms, discourse and culture available for free download at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415634885/ Written by a highly experienced instructor, researcher and linguist, Understanding the Chinese Language will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in Chinese linguistics. It will also be of interest to anyone interested in learning more about Chinese language and culture. |
| chinese language and culture: Encounters Cynthia Y. Ning, John S. Montanaro, 2011-07-15 DIV Welcome to Encounters, a groundbreaking Chinese language program that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. The program’s highly communicative approach immerses learners in the Chinese language and culture through video episodes that directly correspond to units in the combination textbook-workbook. By combining a compelling story line with a wealth of educational materials, Encounters weaves a tapestry of Chinese language and culture rich in teaching and learning opportunities. Encounters follows a carefully structured and cumulative approach. Students progress from listening and speaking to the more difficult skills of reading and writing Chinese characters, building grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation skills along the way. The Encounters program includes: • Two Full-color Student Books for introductory Chinese study • Annotated Instructor’s Editions with answer keys and suggested class activities • Two Character Writing Workbooks linked directly to the Student Book • Ten hours of video materials, comprising dramatic episodes, cultural segments, and animations, all integrated with the Student Books • A total of 200 minutes of audio material, linked to the Student Books, for listening and speaking practice • A website, www.encounterschinese.com, providing a year’s free access to all audiovisual material of the program upon adoption /div |
| chinese language and culture: Warp and Weft Keekok Lee, 2008 This book attempts to deconstruct certain key clusters of Chinese characters and words to make them yield fascinating tales about the country's culture and history. |
| chinese language and culture: Performed Culture in Chinese Language Education Guangyan Chen, 2020-06-22 Performed Culture in Chinese Language Education: A Culture-Based Approach for U.S. Collegiate Contexts elaborates on a cultural awareness-oriented, cultural performance-based, and cross-cultural communication-focused foreign language pedagogical paradigm—Performed Culture Approach — in the context of U.S. collegiate Chinese language education. Guangyan Chen draws on the data collected through questionnaires, comparisons between this pedagogy and mainstream pedagogical frameworks, and analyses of curricular development, lesson plans, and classroom discourses. Chen promotes the performed culture approach by delineating the theoretical framework of this pedagogy, reporting studies that empirically support cultural primacy in Chinese language education, and illustrating this pedagogy through analyses of a curricular structure, a lesson plan, and classroom discourses. Chen shows how this pedagogy addresses the gaps between the social need for global citizens and the insufficient integration of culture into foreign language education. The performed culture approach also addresses the overall drop in U.S. collegiate foreign language enrollment as this pedagogy connects foreign language programs to university missions and social needs. |
| chinese language and culture: A Cultural History of the Chinese Language Sharron Gu, 2011-12-22 Chinese, one of the oldest active languages, evolved over 5,000 years. As such, it makes for a fascinating case study in the development of language. This cultural history of Chinese demonstrates that the language grew and responded to its music and visual expression in a manner very similar to contemporary English and other Western languages. Within Chinese cultural history lie the answers to numerous questions that have haunted scholars for decades: How does language relate to worldview? What would happen to law after its language loses absolute binding power? How do music, visual, and theatrical images influence literature? By presenting Chinese not as a system of signs but as the history of a community, this study shows how language has expanded the scope of Chinese imagination and offers a glimpse into the future of younger languages throughout the world. |
| chinese language and culture: Encounters Cynthia Y. Ning, John S. Montanaro, 2012-02-14 Welcome to Encounters, a groundbreaking Chinese language programme that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. The programme's highly communicative approach immerses learners in the Chinese language and culture through video episodes that directly correspond to units in the textbook. By combining a compelling story line with a wealth of educational materials, Encounters weaves a tapestry of Chinese language and culture rich in teaching and learning opportunities. Encounters follows a carefully structured and cumulative approach. Students progress from listening and speaking to the more difficult skills of reading and writing Chinese characters, building grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation skills along the way. The Encounters programme includes: Two Full-colour Student Books for introductory Chinese study; Annotated Instructor's Editions with answer keys and suggested class activities; Two Character Writing Workbooks linked directly to the Student Book; Ten hours of video materials, comprising dramatic episodes, cultural segments, and animations, all integrated with the Student Books; A total of 200 minutes of audio material, linked to the Student Books, for listening and speaking practice; and, a website providing a year's free access to all audiovisual material of the programme upon adoption. |
| chinese language and culture: Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore Soh Kay Cheng, 2022-01-01 This book is cast in a Singaporean context in which Chinese Language is taught as a second language with an emphasis on communicational skills. It showcases ideas on including cultural teaching to enhance second language learning for more effective outcomes. As a collection of chapters relevant to cultural teaching, the book seeks to enthuse Chinese Language educators to incorporate elements of Chinese culture into their lessons. It is practice-oriented and provides examples using Chinese language textbooks, with suggestions for post-lesson activities. It also documents and discusses the needed developments of Singapore's Chinese culture with references to the three popular co-curricular activities of Chinese music, drama (crosstalk), and dance in schools. |
| chinese language and culture: Chinese Language Narration Allyssa McCabe, Chien-ju Chang, 2013-11-15 Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion is a collection of papers presenting original research on narration in Mandarin, especially as it contrasts to what is known regarding narration in English. One chapter addresses dinner table conversation between Chinese immigrant parents and children in the United States compared to non-immigrant peers. Other chapters consider evaluation patterns in Mandarin versus English, referencing strategies, coherence patterns, socioeconomic differences among Taiwanese Mandarin-speaking children, and differences in narration due to Specific Language Impairment and schizophrenia. Several chapters address developmental concerns. Distinctive aspects of narration in Mandarin are linked to larger issues of autobiographical memory. Mandarin is spoken by far more people than any other language, yet narration in this language has received notably less attention than narration in Western languages. This collective effort is a critical addition to our understanding of cross-cultural similarities and differences in how people make sense of experiences through narrative. |
| chinese language and culture: Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse Yun Xiao, Linda Tsung, 2019-04-15 This volume features a discourse empirical orientation from diverse perspectives and various methodologies, in which narratives, interviews, surveys, and large-scale databases or self-created written and spoken corpora are employed and analyzed to gain a better understanding of new developments and changes in Chinese language and discourse. Authors employ updated approaches from a variety of fields, including applied linguistics, functional linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics, to describe the structure of Chinese language and discourse and to examine its critical issues, many focusing on globalization-induced language developments and changes. With an empirically-based discourse/socio-cultural approach, this collection makes valuable contributions to research on Chinese language and discourse and serves as a sound reference for Chinese researchers and educators in diverse fields such as Chinese language and discourse, Chinese linguistics and language education, Chinese multiculturalism, and more. |
| chinese language and culture: Senior Chinese Course: Chinese Language, Culture and Society (Revised Edition) Jixing Xu, Wei Ha, 2020-10-30 |
| chinese language and culture: 5 Steps to a 5: AP Chinese Language and Culture, Third Edition JianMin Luo, 2020-10-02 In this hybrid year, let us supplement your AP classroom experience with this easy-to-follow study guide. The immensely popular 5 Steps to a 5 AP Chinese guide has been updated for the 2020-21 school year and now contains: 2 full-length practice exams Up-to-Date Resources for COVID 19 Exam Disruption Comprehensive overview of the AP Chinese Language and Culture exam format Realistic exercises, including print and audio texts Chinese characters presented in both traditional and simplified characters A complete audio program on MP3 disk to help you develop solid listening-comprehension skills and gain valuable interactive speaking practice |
| chinese language and culture: Chinese Under Globalization Hongyin Tao, 2012 The nine papers collected in this volume examine recent trends in language use in mainland China, and the associated social, economic, political, and cultural manifestations. |
| chinese language and culture: Encounters Cynthia Y. Ning, Stephen L. Tschudi, John S. Montanaro, 2016-01-01 Level 1: Student books 1 and 2 were published in 2012. Level 2: Student books 3 and 4 were published in 2016 -- Introduction. |
| chinese language and culture: Youth Culture in Chinese Language Film Xuelin Zhou, 2016-08-05 This book explores the vigorous film cultures of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong from the perspective of youth culture. The book relates this important topic to the wider social, cultural, and institutional context, and discusses the relationship between the films and the changes that today are transforming each society. Among the areas explored are the differences between the three film industries, their creation of new types of screen hero and heroine, and their conflicts with traditional Chinese attitudes such as respect for age. The many films discussed provide fresh perspectives on the ways in which young people are coping with gender, sexuality, class, coming of age, the pressures of education, and major social shifts such as rural to urban migration. They show young adults in each society striving to construct new value systems for a complex, rapidly changing environment. |
| chinese language and culture: A Cultural Dictionary of The Chinese Language Liwei Jiao, 2019-11-12 A Cultural Dictionary of the Chinese Language introduces the 500 most important cultural traits of the Chinese as reflected in language use, especially in Chinese idioms (chengyu), proverbs and colloquial expressions (suyu). Communicative competence, the ultimate goal of language learning, consists of not only linguistic, but intercultural competence, which enables the language learner to speak with fluency and understanding. The Chinese language is richly imbued with cultural wisdoms and values underlying the appropriateness of idioms in the Chinese language. The Dictionary provides Intermediate and B1-C1 level learners as well as scholars of the Chinese language with an essential reference book as well as a useful cultural reader. |
| chinese language and culture: Soft Power and the Worldwide Promotion of Chinese Language Learning Jeffrey Gil, 2017-05-11 ‘The Confucius Institute Project’ – consisting of Confucius Institutes and Classrooms, the posting of Chinese language teachers to overseas schools and universities and the Chinese Bridge language competition – represents an attempt by China to extend its influence globally through the use of soft power. Facilitated by a rapidly increasing demand for Chinese language learning, it has established a presence across the globe and made valuable contributions to the learning and teaching of Chinese. However, this has not necessarily led to an increasingly positive view of China, either at a political or a societal level. Through an analysis of official documents, interviews with those involved, a survey of Chinese-language learners and a study of academic and media sources, the author evaluates the aims of the project, and discusses whether these aims are being met. |
| chinese language and culture: The Third Space and Chinese Language Pedagogy Xin Zhang, Xiaobin Jian, 2020-12-30 The Third Space and Chinese Language Pedagogy presents the Third Space as a new frame through which foreign language pedagogy is conceptualized as a pedagogy of negotiating intentions and expectations in another culture. The field of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in the past decades has been expanding rapidly at the beginning and intermediate levels, yet it is lacking in scholarship on the true advanced level both in theory building and research-supported curriculum and material development. This book argues that it is time for CFL to go beyond merely satisfying the desire of gazing at the other, whether it is curiosity about the other or superiority over the other, to focusing on learning to work with the other. It reimagines the field as co-constructing a transcultural Third Space where learners are becoming experts in negotiating intentions and expectations in another culture. It presents a range of research-based CFL pedagogical scholarship and practices especially relevant to the advanced level and to the goal of enabling learners to go past fans or critics to become actors/players in the game of cross-lingual and intercultural cooperation. |
| chinese language and culture: Language and Social Change in China Qing Zhang, 2017-09-11 Language and Social Change in China: Undoing Commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarin offers an innovative and authoritative account of the crucial role of language in shaping the sociocultural landscape of contemporary China. Based on a wide range of data collected since the 1990s and grounded in quantitative and discourse analyses of sociolinguistic variation, Qing Zhang tracks the emergence of what she terms “Cosmopolitan Mandarin” as a new stylistic resource for a rising urban elite and a new middle-class consumption-based lifestyle. The book powerfully illuminates that Cosmopolitan Mandarin participates in dismantling the pre-reform, socialist, conformist society by bringing about new social distinctions. Rich in cultural and linguistic details, the book is the first of its kind to highlight the implications of language change on the social order and cultural life of contemporary China. Language and Social Change in China is ideal for students and scholars interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and Chinese language and society. |
| chinese language and culture: Insights into Chinese Culture Ye Lang, Zhu Liangzhi, 2024-10-02 Featuring the distinctive heights of Chinese culture, this book presents the readers with authors' insights into the concepts and passions of the Chinese nation over the past 5,000 years. On reading through this historical range of remarkable creativity and flair for innovation, still evident today in living artistic masterpieces and folk traditions, the readers interested in the Chinese culture will soon acquire a better understanding of the cultural character, life views, aesthetic pursuits and national spirit of the Chinese people, through every work of art or architecture, a fascinating story or legend |
| chinese language and culture: Hacking Chinese Olle Linge, 2016-03-26 Learning Chinese can be frustrating and difficult, partly because it's very different from European languages. Following a teacher, textbook or language course is not enough. They show you the characters, words and grammar you need to become proficient in Chinese, but they don't teach you how to learn them! Regardless of what program you're in (if any), you need to take responsibility for your own learning. If you don't, you will miss many important things that aren't included in the course you're taking. If you study on your own, you need to be even more aware of what you need to do, what you're doing at the moment and the difference between them. Here are some of the questions I have asked and have since been asked many times by students: How do I learn characters efficiently? How do I get the most out of my course or teacher? Which are the best learning tools and resources? How can I become fluent in Mandarin? How can I improve my pronunciation? How do I learn successfully on my own? How can I motivate myself to study more? How can I fit learning Chinese into a busy schedule? The answers I've found to these questions and many others form the core of this book. It took eight years of learning, researching, teaching and writing to figure these things out. Not everybody has the time to do that! I can't go back in time and help myself learn in a better way, but I can help you! This book is meant for normal students and independent language learners alike. While it covers all major areas of learning, you won't learn Chinese just by reading this book. It's like when someone on TV teaches you how to cook: you won't get to eat the delicious dish just by watching the program; you have to do the cooking yourself. That's true for this book as well. When you apply what you learn, it will boost your learning, making every hour you spend count for more, but you still have to do the learning yourself. This is what a few readers have said about the book: The book had me nodding at a heap of things I'd learnt the hard way, wishing I knew them when I started, as well as highlighting areas that I'm currently missing in my study. - Geoff van der Meer, VP engineering This publication is like a bible for anyone serious about Chinese proficiency. It's easy for anyone to read and written with scientific precision. - Zachary Danz, foreign teacher, children's theatre artist About me I started learning Chinese when I was 23 (that's more than eight years ago now) and have since studied in many different situations, including serious immersion programs abroad, high-intensity programs in Sweden, online courses, as well as on the side while working or studying other things. I have also successfully used my Chinese in a graduate program for teaching Chinese as a second language, taught entirely in Chinese mostly for native speakers (the Graduate Institute for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University). All these parts have contributed to my website, Hacking Chinese, where I write regularly about how to learn Mandarin. |
| chinese language and culture: ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. , 2024 |
| chinese language and culture: Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview Dilin Liu, 2002 Using dominant metaphors in American English and the Chinese language, Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview explores how metaphor is a product that is simultaneously shaped by and is shaping the culture and the worldview of the people who use it, and how it showcases some unique features of communication of the speakers of the two languages. |
| chinese language and culture: Encounters Print Bundle Cynthia Y. Ning, John S. Montanaro, 2016-03-01 |
| chinese language and culture: Chinese Language and Culture 漢語與文化讀本 Weijia Huang, Qun Ao, 2021-01-28 This reader is designed for an intermediate-level Chinese course in which students not only develop proficiency in the Chinese language but also gain some knowledge of Chinese culture. It consists of twenty-two lessons, which are arranged according to their level of difficulty. Each lesson contains a core text and a reading text. The contents of the texts cover a wide variety of topics, including Chinese language structures and characters, Chinese customs, proverbs, holidays, social phenomena, religions, poetry and geography, as well as Chinese folklore. A list of questions for group discussion follows the text in each chapter to help students further explore issues related to Chinese culture and to their own lives. Grammar notes and exercises for relevant grammatical points are introduced after each core text to enhance students’ skills of reading, comprehension and writing. The grammar notes are all explained in English and illustrated through sample sentences in Chinese with English translations. The exercises are written in a simple and humorous style to maintain students’ interest. Learners of the Chinese language will find this reader a resourceful reference on Chinese culture and society as well as a useful textbook that helps them master the language better. |
| chinese language and culture: Chinese Language and Culture Education Chunyan Zhang, 2024-04-02 Against the background of the Australian government’s strategic plan to promote Asian languages in schools, this book is an innovative autoethnographic inquiry into what actually occurs in the implementation of a Chinese language and culture program in an Australian context. Drawing on eight years of socio-cultural and educational fieldwork in a primary school, Chunyan Zhang examines complex, fluid and heterogeneous daily teaching practices and the ways in which ideas of China are assembled, presented and performed. She asks the following questions: What is China? Where does Taiwan fit into the China depicted in a multicultural, globalised classroom? Can Chinese communism or Chairman Mao be avoided in teaching English-speaking learners? What kind of China is brought in here while what kind of China is being silenced and othered? Through the partial connection between method assemblage and Daoist concepts, Zhang develops a water-like pedagogy in teaching. She uses the knowledge flow model to examine the imbalanced knowledge flow within teacher-student interactions. From finding China as a hybrid assemblage to proposing China as method, Zhang’s investigation makes an important contribution to the sociology of Chinese language education. This book is an essential and rich content resource for primary and secondary teacher education and research, teacher candidates and educators in Chinese as a second language education. |
| chinese language and culture: Encounters Cynthia Ning, 2012 |
| chinese language and culture: English in China Emily Tsz Yan Fong, 2021-03-29 This volume explores Chinese identity through the lens of both the Chinese and English languages. Until the twentieth century, English was a language associated with capitalists and military aggressors in China. However, the massive progression of globalisation in China following the 1980s has transformed the language into an important tool for China’s modernisation. Regardless of the role English plays in China, there has always been a fear there that the spread of culture(s) associated with English would lead to weakening of the Chinese identity. This fear resulted in the development of the ti-yong principle: Chinese learning for essence (ti), Western learning for utility (yong). Fong’s book aims to enhance understanding of the ti-yong dichotomy in relation to people’s sense of being Chinese in China, the penetration of English into non-English speaking societies, the resultant tensions in people’s sense of personal and national identity, and their place in the world. Using Q methodology, the book presents observations based on data collected from four participant groups, namely high school and university students, teachers and parents in China, to investigate their perspectives on the status and roles of English, as well as those of Chinese. Considering the growing international interest in China, this volume will appeal to readers interested in China’s contemporary society in general, its language, culture and identity. It will be a useful resource for academics, researchers and students in the field of applied linguistics, language education and Chinese cultural studies and can also be adopted as a reference book for undergraduate courses relating to language, identity and culture. |
| chinese language and culture: AP Chinese Language and Culture Premium, Fourth Edition: 2 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Audio Yan Shen, Joanne Shang, 2023-07-04 For more than 80 years, BARRON's has been helping students achieve their goals. Prep for the AP® Chinese Language and Culture exam with trusted review from our experts. |
| chinese language and culture: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture Liwei Jiao, 2024-03-26 The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture represents the first English anthology that delves into the fascinating and thought-provoking relationship between the Chinese language and culture, exploring various macro and micro perspectives. Chinese culture boasts a history of ten thousand years, while the Chinese language’s recorded history spans at least three thousand years, dating back to the Shang dynasty oracle bone inscriptions (OBI). This handbook is comprised of 17 chapters from 18 scholars including Victor Mair and William S-Y. Wang. Many chapters approach their respective topics with a comprehensive and historical outlook. Certain extensive subjects are addressed in multiple chapters, complementing one another. These topics include: The languages and peoples of China, and the southern Chinese dialects Mandarin’s evolution into a national language and its related writing reforms Language as a propaganda tool in the Cultural Revolution and in contemporary China Chinese idioms and colloquialisms This book offers an approachable exploration of the subject, appealing to both specialists and enthusiasts of the Chinese language and culture. |
| chinese language and culture: Interculturality in Chinese Language Education Tinghe Jin, Fred Dervin, 2017-06-27 This book calls for a change in the way interculturality is introduced in Chinese language education, while the demand for Chinese language teaching increases around the world. The concept of culture – as in the phrase ‘Chinese culture’ – has often been one of the main emphases of Chinese language education, providing students with facts about China and ‘recipes’ on how to meet Chinese people and how to behave like them. However, Chinese culture, like all cultures, does not constitute a closed system, but is constantly evolving and exchanging with other cultures. This unique volume comprises studies from around the world that promote intercultural awareness, dialogue, and encounters in Chinese language education. Written in a clear and readable style, this book will appeal to a diverse readership, from practising and training teachers of Chinese, to researchers interested in language and intercultural education. |
| chinese language and culture: Chinese Language, Thought, and Culture P. J. Ivanhoe, 1996 This collection of essays by leading sinologists, historians, and philosophers both challenges and extends the work of David Nivison, whose contributions range across moral philosophy, religious thought, intellectual history, and Chinese language. Nivison himself replies to each essay. |
| chinese language and culture: Warp and Weft Keekok Lee, 2017-10-23 This book attempts to deconstruct certain key clusters of Chinese characters and words, centring on themes such as war and peace, kith and kin, male and female, rites and rituals, pleasure and leisure to make them yield fascinating tales about Chinese culture and history in which these words are embedded and which they at the same time encapsulate. The Chinese language, Chinese history and culture are presented as one long woven bolt of silk (for which China has historically been noted), with the written language conceived as the warp while the history and culture the weft. In this process of linguistic exploration, the book shows in what ways the Chinese written language may be said to be unique as well as to reveal, amongst other things, certain aspects of such a civilisation:∙ its religion, cosmology, philosophy, political theory, law, medicine, astronomy, physics, geography;∙ its grasp of human reproduction, biology and physiology, psychology, biochemistry, even neurology of the brain;∙ what constitutes its identity, the core values of its culture, the essential glue holding such a society together;∙ the daily existence of its people, such as their food and drink, the houses they lived in, the furniture they used, their chief modes of transportation, etc. Keekok Lee has written a brilliant, creative synthesis of what is known about the Chinese written language, taking readers on a fascinating and provocative journey through Chinese values, philosophy, reasoning, and history as revealed in the character/words of what is probably the oldest language in the history of human writing. The book is a masterpiece - just what we need to help us understand China as it achieves world prominence in the coming decades. (Wendell Bell, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University)Warp and Weft: Chinese Language and Culture offers a delightful tour through the Chinese writing system, using the idiosyncrasies of the characters to illustrate a myriad of aspects of Han history and culture. It should be a pleasure to read for both novices and seasoned Sinophiles. (Sir Anthony J Leggett, University of Illinois, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics)With the rise of China as a global power triggering increasing demand for people with knowledge of Chinese language and culture, Keekok Lee's new book is undoubtedly a timely and more than welcome addition to the existing literature. ... It is a time machine that will take you on a sightseeing journey into China's past to visit its scenic spots of historical and cultural interest. ... you do not have to know Chinese script to enjoy this book, although even a native Chinese speaker like me finds it both informative and enjoyable to read. (Richard Xiao, Times Higher Education, March 2009)Keekok Lee was born and brought up in South East Asia. She received, in the main, a colonial education which did its very best to stamp out any interest in the mother tongues and cultures of the children under its charge. Fortunately, in her case, it did not quite succeed, and she managed, against such odds, to sustain a life-long commitment to learning about Chinese culture. She is a graduate of the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore), Oxford University and the University of Manchester. She taught philosophy at the University of Manchester for many years until 1999 to concentrate on research and publication. Her numerous publications - monographs as well as articles in journals - cover a wide range of philosophical areas, including Chinese philosophy. Her most recent project is on the philosophy of Classical Chinese Medicine to be published in two volumes: The Philosophical Foundations of Classical Chinese Medicine: Philosophy, Methodology, Science, Lanham, Rowan & Littlefield, Spring 2017 and its sequel, Classical Chinese Medicine: Theory, Methodology and Therapy In Its Philosophical Framework, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017/2018. |
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Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. ' Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages [d] spoken natively by the ethnic …
China Chef Columbia
China Chef Columbia is a Chinese restaurant serving a wide array of fine traditional Chinese dishes. We not only offer amazing Chinese food but also serve it in a pleasant atmosphere …
The Best 10 Chinese Restaurants near Crossville, TN 38555 - Yelp
Ah Mah and Son Asian Eatery. “Freshly made Chinese food in a nice clean environment. Great place for a quick lunch or family...” more. 2. China King. 3. A Taste of China. 4. China New …
THE BEST 10 CHINESE RESTAURANTS in FRANKLIN, TN - Yelp
Most authentic Chinese cuisine middle Tennessee! Small "hole in the wall" family...” more. 4. New China. 5. Changhong Spicy Hot Pot. “Absolutely amazing, authentic Chinese food! The super …
Chinese - World Languages and Cultures Department
With written records stretching back more than 4000 years, Chinese language and culture are amongst the world’s oldest. In recent decades, the country has become the world’s …
No1 Chinese Chinese Food Franklin, TN 37064 Online Order! , …
No1 Chinese Franklin, TN 37064 Authentic Chinese cuisine available for delivery and carry out. Hunan, Szechuan, Cantonee specialities and lunch specials.
WokChow Fire Seared Asian – Chinese Food in Knoxville TN with …
WokChow is Knoxville’s best place to enjoy your favorite Asian Dishes, whether it be Teriyaki Chicken, Beef Lo-mein, or many other items, WokChow has it! Serving Dine-in, Take-out, or …
The Best Chinese Food in Nashville
Nov 19, 2024 · Whether you want to dine in a hip space with natural wine pairings or grab fast-casual dumplings to go, here are the best restaurants to find Chinese food in Nashville. For all …
China Garden - Zmenu
China Garden, located at 130 Walmart Dr #100 in Smithville, Tennessee, is a Chinese restaurant offering a variety of dining options for lunch and dinner. With its fast service, China Garden …
