College Chinese (Revised Edition)

Author: Yang Jianbo
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Publish Date: 2002-08-17
Features: College Chinese serves as one of the most important quality-oriented education courses in the cultivation of advanced specialized talents. Based on this understanding and considering the current situation of students, this textbook pays special attention to the following three points in its writing style:
1. Guided by history, meaning selecting representative works of important writers from each historical period according to the development of literary history. The selection criteria are: healthy ideological content, rich cultural connotation, artistic originality, high aesthetic value, and ease of instruction.
2. Moderately selected, this book includes various works of poetry and prose from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign. Ancient works constitute a larger proportion, aiming to improve students' classical literary appreciation and enhance their understanding of China's excellent cultural traditions through study. According to the class schedule, some works are provided for instructors' classroom lectures, while others are for students' self-study outside of class.
3. Beneficial for instructors' lectures and students' self-study. This book provides a brief introduction to each writer, and all selected texts (with necessary annotations for ancient works) are summarized in the form of "hints" to outline their ideological and artistic characteristics. Except for minor technical adjustments where necessary, all selected works are kept in their original form.