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Advanced Modern Chinese: Learning through Contemporary Film aims to develop advanced-level Chinese students' language skills through movies and broaden their knowledge about China, while also developing their appreciation of the artistic characteristics of film.
This textbook is based on the principles of content-based instruction and ACTFL Foreign Language Proficiency Guidelines for the "advanced" level. The authors carefully selected ten movies, of which eight were released after 2015, by filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States. Rich themes are covered in this book and placed in ascending order from easy to difficult. The authors provide an informative movie critique in each lesson, followed by exercises on new words and grammar, pre-class preparation questions, in-depth classroom discussion points and after-class exercises on reading and writing. The authors also provide commentary on film cinematography covering topics such as film type, lens type, sound, editing and light in order to allow students to explore and analyze the artistic characteristics of film more systematically.
This textbook is specially designed for advanced-level Chinese students to learn Chinese through movies.
List of contents
Contents
Preface
China through the Lens of Americans
Chapter 1: The Farewell: The Story Behind a Lie
Chapter 2: Mulan: Be True to Yourself
Love and Inspiration
Chapter 3: Go Away Mr. Tumor: A Year to Battle Cancer
Chapter 4: Dear Ex: Is Love a Poison or an Antidote?
Campus and Society
Chapter 5: Last Train Home: A Journey of No Return
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Chapter 6: Better Days: May You Be Treated with Tenderness
Ethics and Law
Chapter 7: Dearest: Love and Hatred on the Road to Find Lost Children
Chapter 8: Dying to Survive: The Redemption of Underprivileged People
Animation and Science Fiction
Chapter 9: The Wandering Earth: Taking Humans to Wander
Chapter 10: Ne Zha: Born to Be a Devil to Rewrite Fate
Film Terms Glossary
About the author
Yujia Ye is an assistant instructional professor in the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, USA.
Shu Zhang is an instructor in the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, USA. She has co-authored Test Syllabus Interpretation for International Chinese Language Teacher Certificate.
Summary
Advanced Modern Chinese: Learning through Contemporary Film aims to develop Chinese advanced level students’ language skills through movies, broaden their knowledge about China, as well as develop their appreciation of the artistic characteristics of film.
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"The textbook incorporates the most recent Chinese films (after the 2010s) into the advanced Chinese language teaching and learning, which is innovative and informative. The textbook answers the call of involving more culturally and socially embedded topics into the day-to-day Chinese language teaching and learning practice."
Dr. Shasha Wang, School of Arts, Culture and Language, Bangor University, Wales, UK
