Unit 1 Overview: East Meets West Text A Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Note Text B Place of Philosophy in Chinese Civilization Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Unit 2 Geography Text A Geographical Inequalities Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Note Text B A Clear and Present Danger: The Chinese Exclusion Act Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Unit 3 History Text A China Turns Inward Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Note Text B Conceit and Military Weakness During the Song Dynasty Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Unit 4 Arts Text A Peony Dreams Part I Understanding the Text Part IT Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Note Text B The Three Perfections: Painting, Poetry and Calligraphy Classification of Chinese Traditional Paintings Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Unit 5 Literature Text A Four Schools of Fiction in the Ching Dynasty and Their Later Development Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Notes Text B Will Mo Yan's Nobel Prize Finally Mean Better Sales Abroad? Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note
Unit 6 Way of Living Text A The Cult of "Face" Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Note Text B The Chinese Theory of Leisure Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Unit 7 Science and Technoloqy Text A Influences of the Chinese Religious Systems on Medicine Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Note Text B Environment Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Unit 8 Education Text A Intellectual Freedom and Chinese Education Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Note Text B Yenching University: A Dream that Came True Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Unit 9 Language Text A The Second Great Reform of Chinese Writing Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Note Text B Confucius Says ... Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Unit 10 Recreation Text A On Going About and Seeing Things Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Note Text B Thinking Rocks, Living Stones: Reflections on Chinese Lithophilia Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note
Unit 11 Population Text A Making a Selfish Generation by Fiat Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Note Text B Who Will Feed China? Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Unit 12 China and the World Text A What Kind of Superpower Could China Be? Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Critical Thinking Skills Part IV Cultural Note Text B Why China Will Not Buy the World Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Key to Exercises
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