CROSSING CULTURAL BOUNDARIES - AN ADVANCED CHINESE MULTIMEDIA COURSE

'The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries' is a multimedia course for advanced students of Chinese. Written by a team of highly experienced teachers, the book offers advanced learners of Chinese a chance to consolidate their foundation in the language through a variety of activities which are designed to develop both language skills and cultural literacy. Divided into four thematic units covering popular culture, social change, cultural traditions and politics and history, each unit contains three lessons providing the student with a structured course which supports the transition from an intermediate to an advanced level. The 12 lessons are comprised of texts which present interesting and accurate information about contemporary China, introducing the student to useful vocabulary, speech patterns, and idiosyncratic language usage.