College Chinese — 21st Century University General Education Series Textbooks

Author: Xi Jia
Publisher: Wuhan University Press
Book Description:
This textbook, College Chinese, features 72 selected cultural classics and literary masterpieces from ancient and modern China and abroad, divided into seven units: Ancient Chinese Prose, Contemporary Chinese and Modern Prose, Foreign Prose, Ancient Chinese Poetry, Contemporary and Foreign Poetry, Ancient Chinese Fiction and Drama, and Contemporary and Foreign Fiction and Drama. The selection emphasizes the diversity and comparability of both ideological content and artistic style, with the primary goal of sparking collisions, inspiring reflections, and fostering interest in works from different eras and styles across the world, thereby motivating students' autonomous learning. To enhance interaction, the textbook includes a number of thought-provoking questions after each piece and a series of discussion topics after each unit, providing teachers with a selection of topics for classroom discussions, presentations, debates, or writing exercises. The aim is to broaden perspectives, stimulate thinking, cultivate students' oral and written communication skills, and improve their overall language proficiency.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Unit 1
Zuo Zhuan · The First Year of Yin (Excerpt)
Laozi (Excerpt)
The Analects (Excerpt)
Mozi · Loving All People (Excerpt)
Mencius · Liang Huiwang I (Excerpt)
Zhuangzi · Autumn Waters (Excerpt)
Records of Rites · The Ideal Society (Excerpt)
Han Feizi · Two Means of Governance
Records of the Grand Historian · Bi Yili's Biography
Letter of Seclusion from Mount Shan to Yuan Jingyuan
Biography of the Scholar Xu Liu
Platform Sutra · The Chapter on Xingyou (Excerpt)
Preface
Unit 1
Zuo Zhuan · The First Year of Yin (Excerpt)
Laozi (Excerpt)
The Analects (Excerpt)
Mozi · Loving All People (Excerpt)
Mencius · Liang Huiwang I (Excerpt)
Zhuangzi · Autumn Waters (Excerpt)
Records of Rites · The Ideal Society (Excerpt)
Han Feizi · Two Means of Governance
Records of the Grand Historian · Bi Yili's Biography
Letter of Seclusion from Mount Shan to Yuan Jingyuan
Biography of the Scholar Xu Liu
Platform Sutra · The Chapter on Xingyou (Excerpt)
Preface to Seeing Li Yuan Return to Pan Valley
Account of the Incidents of General Duan Taiyuan
The Word of the Hero
On Factionalism
On the Tutor
Letter to Grand Uncle Liu
On Liu Xie
Letter to Gong Weichang
On the Original Lord
Unit Discussion Questions (I)
Unit 2
Farewell of Shadows
Bitter Rain
Spring Grass is Green Again
Voices of the Soul
Unit Discussion Questions (II)
Unit 3
The Republic (Excerpt)
On the Prince (Excerpt)
On the Spirit of the Laws (Excerpt)
The Social Contract (Excerpt)
The Master of All Teachers—The Ignorance of Humanity
Unit Discussion Questions (III)
Unit 4
Jiājiā
Cǎiwēi
Lesser God of Command
Mountain Spirit
Ode Ode
Seven Laments
Poem on History (V)
Farewell at Xie Ting Tower to Schoolmate Shuyun
Autumn Meditations (II)
Song of Unrequited Love
Singing in the Wilderness
A Dialectic (Empty Words)
Picking Up Sand (Rain Beats the Blind)
Defying the Wind (Do Not Listen to the Wind Through the Leaves)
Clairvoyance (A Waning Moon Hangs Over Sparse Pines)
Everlasting Joy (The Setting Sun Melted the Gold)
Lotus-Feather Rhyme · Climbing Jiankang's Pavilion of Delight
Unit Discussion Questions (IV)
Unit 5
Sea Rhyme
On Feeling
The Dreamer
Sonnet (We Stand on High Mountains)
Eight Poems
Waiting for You, in the Rain
In the Mirror of Dawn
Moonlight
Who Runs Faster Than Lightning
My Life
Gift
Unit Discussion Questions (V)
Unit 6
The Story of the World (Wang Lang, Huan Xin)
The Story of the World (Visiting Dai on a Snowy Night)
Nie Yinniang
Dream of Awakening (Excerpt)
The Fury of Du Shidang in Drowning a Hundred Treasures
Liu Laolao’s Second Entry into the Grand View Garden (Excerpt)
Unit Discussion Questions (VI)
Unit 7
Farewell
Xiao Xiao
The Golden Locks
Guan Hanqing (Excerpt)
Xu Shuang’s Tale of Selling Blood (Excerpt)
Macbeth (Excerpt)
Love of Life
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Excerpt)
Unit Discussion Questions (VII)
The Jiazhong Cultural Manifesto
Afterword