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Acting Chinese is a year-long course that, together with the companion website, integrates language learning with the acquisition of cultural knowledge, and treats culture as an integral part of human behavior and communication.
Using modern day examples of Chinese discourse and behavioral culture, it trains students to perform in culturally appropriate fashion, whilst developing a systematic awareness and knowledge about Chinese philosophy, values and belief systems that will prepare them for further advanced study of Chinese language and culture. Each lesson contains simulated real-life communication scenarios that aim to provide a concrete opportunity to see how native speakers generally communicate or behave in social situations.
An essential guide for intermediate to advanced level second language learners, Acting Chinese provides a unique and modern approach to the acquisition of both cultural knowledge and language proficiency.
List of contents
Preface
Teacher's guide
List of abbreviations and symbols
List of characters in communication scenarios
Unit one
Cultural perspective: group mentality
Text:
Behavior highlighted: love to be part of the fun
Text:
Behavior highlighted: follow the pack
Text: " "
Behavior highlighted: relation-based conduct
Unit two
Cultural perspective: the concept of
li Text:
Behavior highlighted:
li-based civilities
Text:
Behavior highlighted: humble oneself and exalt others
Unit three
Cultural perspective: harmony orientation
Text:
Behavior highlighted: harmony as priority
Text:
Behavior highlighted: forbear and forgive
Text:
Behavior highlighted: (take) the middle road
Unit four
Cultural perspective: face psychology
Text: ??
Behavior highlighted: saving face
Text:
Behavior highlighted: face work
Unit five
Cultural perspective: rules of
renqing Text:
Behavior highlighted: reciprocation
Text:
Behavior highlighted: networking
Unit six
Cultural perspective: differentiated mode of association
Text:
Behavior highlighted: distinguish people based on relationships
Text:
Behavior highlighted: distinction between the upper and lower status
Appendixes: reflection worksheet for cultural exploration
Traditional Chinese character texts
Indexes
Pinyin-English vocabulary
English-Chinese vocabulary
Speech pattern index by lesson
About the author
Yanfang Tang, Kunshan Carolyn Lee, Li Xu, Jin Zhang, Peng Yu
Summary
Acting Chinese is a year-long course that, together with the companion website, integrates language learning with the acquisition of cultural knowledge, and treats culture as an integral part of human behaviour and communication.
