Mcgraw Hills Classic Chinese Reader

Enhance your Chinese language skills through literature and culture You can drill grammar, you can memorize vocabulary; but to truly fortify your Chinese skills you have to read in the language. McGraw-Hill's Classic Chinese Reader strengthens your reading comprehension skills and vocabulary through selections from Chinese literature including poetry, folklore, classic stories and novels, and modern drama. The texts are handpicked especially for the needs of students learning Chinese and are presented in both simplified characters and pinyin, so you will enjoy an authentic reading experience with less difficulty. Build your reading comprehension skills and vocabulary Add new words and phrases to your vocabulary Learn about the history, life, and culture of China

"A Classical Chinese Reader is the result of many years of teaching at the University of Sydney. When I first started teaching, there was little to help the undergraduate student embarking on the study of Classical Chinese. In response to student pleas, I started to provide vocabularies and grammatical notes and finally decided to publish my notes." --From the Preface

Provides translations of more than two hundred-fifty poems by over forty poets, from early anonymous poetry through the T'ang and Sung dynasties.

Journey to the West is the life story of Tang Sanzang (唐三藏)/Xuanzang (玄奘), a character from the classic Chinese classic novel of the same name (西游记). Tang Sanzang went on to fetch the Buddhist scriptures from India (天竺/西天). The volume, 10th in the Mandarin Chinese Reading Series, includes both the Chinese text (simplified characters) and pinyin in the story form. With about 700 unique Chinese characters, the volume would be suitable for the beginners, lower intermediate and advanced level Chinese language learners (HSK 1-6). Overall, the Mandarin Chinese Reading Series offers you a variety of elementary level books (Level 1/2) to learn Chinese culture as well as practice Chinese reading fast. Paperback Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1710750162 Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081X3QJ97 The book has 10 chapters in the following order: 第一章：Context (《西游记》背景) 第二章：Basic Facts (基本信息) 第三章：Xuanzang (玄奘) 第四章：Outline (概要) 第五章：Disciples of Tang Sanzang (唐三藏的徒弟们) 第六章：Tang Sanzang (唐三藏) 第七章：Sun Wukong (孙悟空) 第八章：Zhu Bajie (猪八戒) 第九章：Sha Wujing (沙悟浄) 第十章：Recap (概括)

For readers of Chinese descent, this entertaining book adds to understanding their heritage. For others, it brings an appreciation of things Chinese.

No other dictionary is available on the market with this unique look-up system Contains indices that allows look-up by all other approaches: pinyin, radicals and strokes, and English meanings Contains 2,000 commonly used characters, which then allows the user to create 20,000 words with those characters and numerous example sentences

This second edition, like the earlier first edition, introduces some of the main varieties of Chinese as found before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. While continuing to stress the basic importance of the traditional usages, such as the regular characters to be found in all materials published before the adoption of the simplified forms in 1956 and still in use in some areas, the present revision goes further in contrasting variant usages and in providing additional material relevant to the PRC. Closely related with the author's Beginning Chinese and its companion volume, Character Text for Beginning Chinese, this text is based on a new approach which not only takes into account the advantages of the oral-aural method but gets the student more quickly into material that he is likely to encounter in actual written Chinese. Unique features are the emphasis on compounds and their extensive use in various types of exercises. The 1,200 combinations are based on 400 characters; in all, the book contains 120,000 characters of running text. All compounds appear in illustrative sentences accompnied by English translations, in dialogues as a means of audio-lingual reinforcement, and in narrative or expository form. Additional exercises include maps, booksellers' book lists, correspondence, poems, table of contents, and brief passages from the works of outstanding writers such as Sun Yatsen, Hu Shih, Mao Tse-tung, and Lu Hsun. Supplementary lessons present reading material using the simiplified characters adopted in mainland China. To suit the needs of the beginner, characters are introduced in large size, and tables indicate the sequence of strokes used in their formation. In addition to a pinyin index, there are three summary charts in which the characters are arranged by lesson, by number of strokes, and by radical. A fourth chart contrasts regular and simplified characters; a fifth chart presents variant forms of the same chracter. Because of the large characters and extensive material, the book is issued in two volumes, Part I and Part II. This work was supported by a contract with the United States Office of Education. This is the paper copy version of this text.