Oh, China!: An Elementary Reader of Modern Chinese for Advanced Beginners - Revised Edition

By Ying Wang, Chih-p'ing Chou, Perry Link, et al.

Book Overview

Oh, China! meets the needs of advanced beginners or "heritage learners" who already speak some Chinese but require instruction in reading and writing fundamentals before moving to the intermediate level. In this fully revised edition, state-of-the-art lessons go over the basics of standard Mandarin pronunciation and introduce students to Chinese characters. The textbook moves at a faster pace than those designed for absolute beginners and allows students to rapidly develop strong foundations in grammar and vocabulary. It contains topics that are especially relevant to heritage learners, such as growing up in a bilingual, bicultural environment, and exposes students to essential issues for understanding contemporary China today, including economic development and political relations with Taiwan.

This essential of Chinese language learning contains updated lessons, grammar notes, and exercises, and its new user-friendly format juxtaposes text and vocabulary on adjacent pages.Updated and revised editionDesigned for advanced beginners who already speak some ChineseOffers strong foundations in pronunciation, characters, and grammarCovers topics relevant to heritage speakers and contemporary Chinese societySingle volume user-friendly format

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691153086
• ISBN13: 9780691153087
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5

Customer Reviews

a really good book

As a Peace Corps Volunteer living in China, I needed a book that would quickly and effectively introduce me to the complex grammatical structures and vocabulary necessary to engage in grown-up conversation. Books widely available here in the motherland were not particularly useful - most "advanced" books here tend to avoid the very issues that are most talked about by young, educated people today.I found "Oh, China" to be a great tool in my personal language acquisition process (a sentence that I can now translate into Chinese...). Most importantly, the book introduces topics of conversation that I often encounter in a method that is all-but-entirely free of bias. I was able to use this book with my Chinese tutor...While it's true that the grammar isn't perfect - sometimes my friends and teachers laugh @ me for sounding like a textbook - for the most part the grammar lessons were right on, especially their explanations in good, clear English.The vocabulary problems stated above are, indeed, quite infuriating.Despite these problems, the book was immensely helpful to me and, overall, a really good book

Oh China!

The title indicates that this is for advanced beginners. I don't consider myself an advanced beginner, but this book was very informative and helpful to me. I really appreciated the wide range of information presented with each lesson, and I learned a lot by just going through the lesson once. Although some of the grammar explanations are a little dry, it is a very helpful reference to have if you are learning Mandarin.