By Aili Mu,Mike Smith
The chapters are equipped round valuable strategies in chinese language tradition resembling li (ritual), ren (benevolence), mianzi (face/prestige), being filial, and the dynamics of yin and yang, in addition to the subjects of governance, id, love, marriage, and alter. The tales chosen are short-shorts by way of very important modern writers starting from the main literary to daily voices. in particular designed to be used in upper-level chinese classes, Contemporary chinese language Short-Short tales: A Parallel Text deals scholars a window onto China this day and pathways to its traditions and earlier as they achieve language competence and significant cultural skills.
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