Chinese: Stories in Modern Chinese (CHIN-520)

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Contents 1 Course Description 2 Steps in Research Process 3 Get an Overview with Reference Sources 4 Suggested Keywords or Subjects via Catalog Search 5 Recommended Databases 6 Suggested Films and Readings 7 Selected Internet Resources

Course Description

Four class periods. Chinese news broadcasts, films, and segments of Chinese TV programs are studied. Emphasis is placed on students' listening comprehension of and written reflections upon Chinese in real-life communication. Topics in current events are discussed exclusively in Chinese. Prerequisite: Successful completion of Chinese 400 or permission of the department.

Steps in Research Process

Begin your research with an understanding of its process

Get an Overview with Reference Sources

Reference Books in the Garver Room

• Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese culture

• China today : an encyclopedia of life in the People's Republic

• The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide. Asia and Oceania

• State of the world 2006 : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society
• Sounds of the silk road : musical instruments of Asia by Mitchell Clark

Suggested Keywords or Subjects via Catalog Search

• China -- Anecdotes.
• Ethnic, Culture, Linguistic
• Cultural assimilation
• Bilingualism--Chinese America.
• Bilingualism--United States.
• Chinese Americans -- Education.
• Chinese Americans -- Social conditions.
• Chinese Americans -- Economic conditions.
• Languages in contact--United States.

Library Catalog
Other Library Catalogs

Note: When you need to request materials from other libraries via online catalog above, you will need a library card with a PIN. If you don't have one yet, the librarians at the Circulation Desk will help you set it up.

Recommended Databases

Suggested Films and Readings

• Song jia huang chao DVD= The Soong sisters
• Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress DVD: a tailor made romance by producer, Lise Fayolle
• Together DVD / Fourth Production Company of China Film Group Corporation
• Huo yuan jia DVD = Fearless
• The Great Wall : China against the world, 1000 BC-AD 2000 by Julia Lovell
• Chindia : how China and India are revolutionizing global business edited with commentary by Pete Engardio

• Chinese lessons : five classmates and the story of the new China by John Pomfret.
• River town : two years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler.
• Oracle bones : a journey between China's past and present by Peter Hessler
• The Chan's great continent : China in western minds by Jonathan D. Spence

Selected Internet Resources

中文报刊
中文期刊 (Note: To access to BPL's electronic resources, you will need to sign up an BPL's e-Card.
Internet Public Library Newspapers from around the world
The Library of Congress's Portals to the World - China 中文资料
Confucius Institute on the Air 广播孔子学院