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 Cultural Note Text B Place of Philosophy in Chinese Civilization Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Text C Complex of the Forbidden City Chinese Cultural Treasures Unit 2 History Text A China Turns Inward Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III 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 Text C Eurasian Bridge into the Future Chinese Cultural Treasures Unit 3 Arts Text A Guqin：Humble and Haughty Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III 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 Text C Guan Pinghu the Guqin Master Chinese Cultural Treasures Unit 4 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 Cultural Notes Text B The Treatment of Gender Relations in Fiction Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Text C Chinese Scholars in Tang Dynasty Chinese Cultural Treasures Unit 5 Science and Technology Text A Influences of the Chinese Religious Systems on Medicine Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Text B The Westward Flow of Techniques Text C China Shocked the World with a Project That Even Western Countries Dared Not Take On
Chinese Cultural Treasures Unit 6 Education Text A The Second Great Reform of Chinese Writing Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Text B Education and the Examination System of the Song Dynasty Text C Anji Games Reshape Chinese Education System by Encouraging Creativity Chinese Cultural Treasures Unit7 Recreation Text A On Going About and Seeing Things Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III 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 Text C A Short History of Chinese Food in the U.S. Chinese Cultural Treasures Unit 8 Cultural Heritages Text A Peony Dreams Part I Understanding the Text Part II Building Your Vocabulary Part III Cultural Note Text B Heritage Sites of Confucius and Mencius Restored to Glory，Better Life for Local Communities Part I Understanding the Text Text C The Tomb Sculptures of the First Emperor of China，Qin Shi Huangdi Chinese Cultural Treasures Appendix Pinyin to Wade-Giles Conversion Table Key to Exercises
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