Developing Chinese: Advanced Spoken Chinese (Part 2)

Author: Li Luxing
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Features: "Advanced Spoken Chinese" (Volume 1 and 2) can be used for two semesters, with 6 class hours per week. Each volume contains 15 lessons, divided into five units, including discussions, surveys, summaries, speeches, and debates. Each unit focuses on training corresponding communication and expression skills. There is also a supplementary unit for reference. The lesson topics emphasize humanistic characteristics and are tailored to the needs of long-term advanced learners, covering topics in the humanities and social sciences, such as culture, environment, technology, population, law, economy, politics, literature, international relations, and more, to lay a solid foundation for international students' future specialized studies. The selected content is not limited to China or any single viewpoint; it often presents two completely opposite perspectives, some of which are clearly unfounded or even absurd, with the aim of stimulating students' desire to express themselves. The selected texts highlight both traditional Chinese culture and topics with universal human cultural resonance, avoiding didacticism and deliberate imposition of certain views. Instead, they encourage students to form their own opinions, with teachers able to guide or participate in discussions on some issues.