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Perform Suzhou: A Course in Intermediate to Advanced Spoken Mandarin
by Xiaobin Jian Jianfen Wang Junqing Jia Chenghua FengPerform Suzhou is a task- and performance-oriented textbook course for Chinese study abroad programs serving intermediate- to advanced-level learners. Performance is the key concept; developing communication skills through role playing. Field performance tasks enable students learning Chinese to refine and solidify communication skills by executing real-life tasks in the target culture, before reporting on their experiences in the classroom. The dialogues presented form the basis for improvisation for related contexts, equipping students to respond appropriately in new situations. Perform Suzhou is composed of staged units, drills, exercises and culture notes with accompanying audio. The textbook is accompanied by audio and Action! China, the supporting workbook.
Practical Chinese Usage: Common Words and Phrases
by Emma L. WuPractical Chinese Usage offers post-beginner to near advanced students of Chinese a guide to the most frequently misused and confusing words in the language. Entries are arranged in alphabetical order for ease of reference. Sample sentences with pinyin and English translations are provided after each explanation. Examples of typical mistakes made by students are clearly marked throughou. Each entry is annotated in accordance with the New HSK guidelines, indicating the level of difficulty. Practical Chinese Usage provides students of Chinese with the necessary tools to refine their use of expressions and synonyms in order to communicate effectively in the Chinese language.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of Risk Analysis Council of China Association for Disaster Prevention (Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research #248)
This is an open access book. The 10th annual session of the China Disaster Defense Association was held in the beautiful metropolis-Tianjin in September 2022. This annual session was hosted by China Civil Aviation University. The theme of this annual meeting is: intelligent risk analysis and crisis response. Scholars, experts, engineering technicians, government officials and entrepreneurs engaged in risk science research, risk system management, risk technology development, crisis response and emergency management actively responded to the meeting. They actively contributed and participated in the meeting, and focused on the application of intelligent risk analysis in earthquake disasters, meteorological disasters, chemical park risk investigation and natural disasters Academic exchanges were carried out in risk analysis, risk assessment methods and models, environmental and ecological risk analysis, public health risk analysis and financial risk analysis.
The Routledge Advanced Language Training Course for K-16 Non-native Chinese Teachers (Routledge Chinese Language Pedagogy)
by Hong Gang Jin Lian Xue Yusheng Yang Lan Zhao ZhouThe Routledge Advanced Language Training Course for K-16 Non-native Chinese Teachers is a content-based and thematically organized textbook designed for non-native in- and pre-service K-16 Chinese language teachers. Based on five years of field testing, the book offers an innovative approach to advanced language instruction, allowing users to further advance their language proficiency while continuing their professional development in teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language. The textbook: covers a range of up-to-date pedagogical and cultural themes provides a variety of engaging activities and exercises, allowing readers for K-16 to explore pedagogical and cultural issues in the target language with best classroom practices in mind familiarises users with authentic forms of modern communication in today’s China to better engage learners is accompanied by a Companion Website with audio recordings for each lesson as well as supplementary materials and teaching resources. The Routledge Advanced Language Training Course for K-16 Non-native Chinese Teachers is an essential resource for non-native Chinese teachers and for those on TCFL teacher training programs.
Sustainable Development and Environmental Management: Experiences and Case Studies
by Corrado Clini Maria Lodovica Gullino Ignazio MusuThis book stems from a four-year experience of a Training Programme addressing members of several Chinese governmental Institutions which, given the moment of extremely intense and fast development of their country, consider the issues of environment and sustainable growth among the foremost priorities. In particular, they expressed the need and will to develop policy and mana- ment tools that could lead to a strategy of sustainable growth from an economic, social and environmental point of view. The Programme turned out to be a success (it involved, up to June 2007, more than 2000 trainees from almost all the Provinces of China) precisely because the forces that answered those needs are extremely diverse as to include the academia, national and local governments, public institutions, private companies and international agencies. Following this feature, the book’s contributors have been selected among more than 300 professors, researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs involved in the Training activities, thus offering different approaches to the key questions of environmental management.
Two Twelfth-Century Texts on Chinese Painting (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies #8)
by Robert J. MaedaTwo Twelfth-Century Texts on Chinese Painting presents two texts in translation that provide dual insight into the Painting Academy of Emperor Hui-tsung and the literati school of painting. The Shan-shui ch’un-ch’uan chi is a treatise for beginning landscape painters dated to the Hsüan-ho era. The treatise was written by Han Cho, a reputed member of the Academy, but the text was not specifically directed at Academicians. The treatise collects and orders previous writings on landscape painting; one of Han Cho’s main goals is to list all landscape definitions and their practical application in painting. Yet his view is more detached and analytical than a stereotypical Academy painter, revealing an approach reminiscent of Confucian scholarship and literati painting as well. The Hua-chi by Teng Ch’un is a history of painting that was written as a sequel to two earlier painting histories. In ten chapters, Teng Ch’un compiles facts and critical evaluations of painters from 1075 to 1167, as well as listings of selected masterpieces. Teng Ch’un provides more specific information about the Academy than Han Cho, discussing its organization and examination system, and noting that “form-likeness” and adherence to rules were leading standards for painting in the Academy. On the other hand, he thinks that painting should transmit “soul,” not just “form.” Thus, Teng Ch’un writes the history of both the establishment values of the Academy and the intellectual tendencies of the literati.
Value Theory: A Research into Subjectivity
by Deshun LiHumankind’s progress has always been driven by two momentums: the pursuit of truth and the creation of value. But our understanding of value, and our ability to reflect on its complexity, has long lagged behind our constant search for truth. This has, in turn limited our grasp of the essence of truth.This book takes philosophical contemplations on value to a new level, while also explicating some contemporary Chinese styles of philosophical thought. Over the past 25 years, this book has been having an increasing impact on Chinese readers and researchers, and it also provides a good platform for international dialogue on several key issues of philosophical studies.
Zauber des Huangshan: Photo-Graphik des chinesischen Malers Hua Guozhang
by Heinz Götze Fang YiProfessor Hua Guozhang wurde 1933 in Wuxi, Provinz Jiangsu/China, geboren. Von klein auf begeisterte er sich für die Kunst. Nach dem Studienabschluß (1952) an der Fachschule für Bildende Künste in Suzhou konzentrierte er sich jahrelang auf die Erforschung der Kunstphotographie. Er arbeitete als Publizist auf dem Gebiet der bildenden Künste, war Pressephotograph und veröffentlichte viele Fachbücher und Studien über Photographie. Seine großen Photobände, darunter Eine malerische Landschaft, Wunderbarer Anblick des Huangshan-Gebirges, Photo-Malereien des Huangshan-Gebirges, sind in Chinesisch, Englisch und Japanisch erschienen und werden von seinen Photographen-und Malerkollegen als künstlerisch sehr wertvoll betrachtet. Er ist Direktor des Forschungsinstituts für Photo-Malerei beim Wissenschaftlich-technischen Erschließungs- und Austauschzentrum und Professor an der Universität für Verkehrswesen in Shanghai. Die hier ausgestellten Photo-Malereien wurden von Hua Guozhang Jahre nach schweren Lungen- und Leberkrebsoperationen mit leidenschaftlicher Liebe zu den schönen Flüssen und Bergen seines Vaterlandes geschaffen und zeigen sein unermüdliches Streben nach künstlerischer Vervollkommnung. Diese erste Ausstellung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland kann dem deutschen Publikum eine Information über die moderne chinesische Photo-Malerei geben, in der Photographie und chinesische Malerei eine harmonische Verbindung eingegangen sind. Die Photo-Malereien, bei denen Photographien im Stile chinesischer Gemälde auf Reispapier oder Seide statt auf Photopapier kopiert werden, erzielen künstlerische Effekte und sind ein Produkt der Verbindung von Kunst und Wissenschaft. Die Entstehung der Photo-Malerei eröffnete der Kunstphotographie neue Wirkungsmöglichkeiten und fand gleichzeitig eine neue Methode für die farbechte Erhaltung künstlerischer Photographien.