Book Series: Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition)

Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition), a complete adult-level textbook series, is tailored to beginners of the Chinese language and is aimed at developing the abilities of listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing of the language.

This series has been widely used at home and abroad since its initial publication. Based on teachers' impressions of, and suggestions for, the book over the past decade, the following changes have been made to the revised edition:restructured content and teaching procedures for a greater ease of use for both students and teachers; updated and relevant topics; increased exercises and class activities; two new books: including Testing Materials and Supplementary Reading Materials. The revised edition embodies a new process-oriented, task-based and interactive teaching method.

The series includes
  • Textbook (Volumes 1-4) contains words and expressions, texts, notes, language points and cultural notes. Pinyin is offered for each text and the texts from Volumes 1 and 2 have English versions.
  • Exercise Book (Volumes 1-4) covers listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation exercises and is able to meet the demands of learners at different language levels.
  • Character Book (Volumes 1-2) focuses on Chinese characters and offers a variety of exercises.
  • Teacher's Book (Volumes 1-4) elaborates on the purpose of the textbook design, its general framework and suggestions for use. It also offers the listening scripts, test papers and exercise keys.
  • Testing Materials (Volumes 1-4) supplies learners with test questions so as to examine their learning outcome at different stages.
  • Supplementary Reading Materials (Volumes 1-4) offers learners ancillary reading materials based on textbook vocabulary so as to improve their Chinese reading ability and help them to gain a better understanding of Chinese culture.
Each volume of the series is accompanied by an MP3 disc and CD-ROM of Putonghua recordings.

Track Series

Product Image Products Price
Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - 2 MP3 Discs for Textbook + Exercise Book 1
ISBN: 9787887172839 | Publisher: Sinolingua Press | Published on 01/2014
Audio files for Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - Textbook 1 and Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - Exercise Book 1 1....
$17.80



Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - 2 MP3 Discs for Textbook + Exercise Book 2
ISBN: 9787887850027 | Publisher: Sinolingua Press | Published on 03/2015
MP3 audios for Contemporary Chinese (Revised edition) - Textbook 2 and Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - Exercise Book 2 1....
$17.80



Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - 2 MP3 Discs for Textbook + Exercise Book 3
ISBN: 9787887850164 | Publisher: Sinolingua Press | Published on 03/2015
Audio files for Contemporary Chinese (Revised edition) - Textbook 3 and Contemporary Chinese (Revised edition) - Exercise Book 3 1....
$17.94



Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - 2 MP3 Discs for Textbook + Exercise Book 4
ISBN: 9787887850324 | Publisher: Sinolingua Press | Published on 12/2015
1. This edition retains many features from the first edition, including: a concise structure with practical language; a focus on conversation,...
$17.94



Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - Character Book 1
ISBN: 9787513806190 | Publisher: Sinolingua Press | Published on 01/2014
1. This edition retains many features from the first edition, including: a concise structure with practical language; a focus on conversation,...
$9.00



Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - Character Book 2
ISBN: 9787513807333 | Publisher: Sinolingua Press | Published on 09/2014
1. This edition retains many features from the first edition, including: a concise structure with practical language; a focus on conversation,...
$9.00



Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - Character Writing Workbook 1A
ISBN: 9787513809818 | Publisher: Sinolingua Press | Published on 07/2015
$3.18



Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - Character Writing Workbook 1B
ISBN: 9787513809801 | Publisher: Sinolingua Press | Published on 07/2015
This set of Character Writing Workbooks are supplementary writing materials for the corresponding Character Books in the Contemporary Chinese...
$3.18



Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - Character Writing Workbook 2A
ISBN: 9787513809832 | Publisher: Sinolingua Press | Published on 07/2015
$3.18



Contemporary Chinese (Revised Edition) - Character Writing Workbook 2B
ISBN: 9787513809825 | Publisher: Sinolingua Press | Published on 07/2015
This set of Character Writing Workbooks are supplementary writing materials for the corresponding Character Books in the Contemporary Chinese...
$3.18