Talking About Chinese Culture 1 (CD included)

Primer volumen de la serie de dos libros de Talking about Chinese Culture. En sus 10 lecciones introduce aspectos de la cultura china, como el concepto de clase, la importancia de la modestia, las relaciones interpersonales, así como también ciertas características de los chinos, como por ejemplo el orgullo, el significado implícito detrás de las palabras, etc.

Los temas de los textos así como la gran variedad de ejercicios, la presentación de palabras nuevas, las notas gramaticales, etc., hacen de este libro una muy entretenida y a la vez instructiva forma de practicar la lectura de los caracteres chinos.

Está dirigido a estudiantes de nivel intermedio de chino. El glosario que introduce las palabras nuevas de cada lección está traducido al inglés, así como presenta su transcripción al Pinyin.

Incluido dentro del libro viene un CD en formato MP3 que contiene leídos los textos así como las palabras del glosario.

Nota de la editorial en inglés con respecto a losautores:

Wu Xiaolu, graduated from the Department of Chinese, Nanjing Normal University in 1983, and got her MA in Chinese Language from the same university in 1988, then taught in the Department of Foreign Language (the now College of International Culture and Education). She went to US for study in 1992, and has taught in Union College and Vassar College. She has published A Training Course in Chinese Reading and some academic papers. Cheng Zhaohui, graduated from from the Department of Chinese, Nanjing Normal University in 1986, and got her MA in Chinese Language from the same university in 1989, then taught in the Department of Foreign Language (the now College of International Culture and Education). In 1994, she began her PhD study in the Department of Linguistics of University of Florida under the supervision of Professor Qu Chengxi, with the research focus on second language acquisition and Chinese teaching pedagogy, and at the same time taught Chinese in the university. She got her PhD in 2000 and since then has been teaching in the Department of Foreign Languages of Georgia Perimeter College. She has published some academic papers on Chinese teaching and acquisition.