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Beginning Chinese Reader - Part One (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Beginning Chinese Reader - Part One (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Yale Language Series
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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 accompanied 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
simplified 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
character. 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.
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