About this ebook
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.
About the author
WEIJIA HUANG is Senior Lecturer of the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Boston University and certified Oral Proficiency Interview tester by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. QUN AO is Professor of Chinese in the Department of Foreign Languages, U. S. Military Academy at West Point and certified Oral Proficiency Interview tester by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
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