Paint Feet on a Snake (Simplified edition)

An Intermediate Mandarin Reader
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-8728-225-7
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 670 g

"Paint Feet on a Snake is intended for Chinese Studies majors, China-focused students in other fields, heritage learners, and professionals. It will help improve vocabulary and grammar competence, and foster reading strategies and writing and translation skills, for use in academic and professional settings. Available in full-form and simplified character editions Aimed at learners of Mandarin with a command of about 850 characters and 1200 vocabulary items Suitable for language acquisition programs and for programs combining linguistic and cultural competence Optimized in pilot editions at Leiden University"

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lin, Chin-Hui

Crevel, Maghiel van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of contents

Preface

User’s guide

Abbreviations of grammatical terms

Lesson 1 Paint feet on a snake

Lesson 2 View flowers from horseback

Lesson 3 Community first, self second

Lesson 4 Three at dawn, four at dusk

Lesson 5 Losing a horse might just be a lucky thing

Lesson 6 The fox that borrows the tiger’s might

Lesson 7 The man from Qi who worried about the sky

Lesson 8 Pretend to play the yu to make up the numbers

Lesson 9 A frog at the bottom of a well

Lesson 10 Self-contradiction

Lesson 11 Amaze the world with a single cry

Lesson 12 Bright kids don’t always make brilliant grown-ups

Vocabulary index

Grammar index

Über Autor(innen)

Crevel, Maghiel van
Maghiel van Crevel is professor of Chinese language and literature at Leiden University. A specialist of contemporary poetry, he has published a dozen books in English, Dutch, and Chinese, including scholarly monographs and edited volumes, literary translations, and language textbooks.

Lin, Chin-Hui
Lin Chin-hui is lecturer in Mandarin at the University of Göttingen.