A New Text for a Modern China

A New Text for a Modern China textbook is an innovative combination of a language instruction book and an up-to-date cultural reader for intermediate learners of Chinese.

Each of the five units in this third-year Chinese language textbook begins with an original essay on topics relevant to everyday life in China: “Population and Housing”, “Education and Employment”, “Lovers and Marriage”, “Family, Women and Children”, and “Phases of the Economic Development”. Each essay is accompanied by three contemporary articles from Chinese publications to illustrate conditions in present-day China. The reading material is followed by lists of new vocabulary, stock phrases, grammar notes, and exercises designed to reinforce learning. This book is in both traditional and simplified characters with pinyin.

This text is an updated and revised version of A Chinese Text for a Changing China. All of the strengths of the former text have been preserved in this update, but the content has been revised and freshened to reflect the most recent developments in Chinese society and language.

[Please note: This text and the Peking University Press text of the same title are quite different in both content and presentation. The PUP text is written completely in Chinese except for its vocabulary lists, while the Cheng & Tsui book’s content, carefully and independently revised by Prof. Irene Liu, provides grammatical explanations and exercises in English for the student.]