The content of this book is related to the 
most representative features of Chinese culture, such as Chinese 
cultural heritage, the influential Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, 
the unique Chinese medicine, martial arts, Chinese operas, currency, 
technology, handicrafts, food, painting, folk music and overseas 
communication. The DVD-ROM is included in this book, with three versions
 of bilingual subtitles: Chinese-English, Chinese-Japanese and 
Chinese-Korean, integrating pictures, texts, and sounds. Besides of 
short articles, annotations are added in each chapter to offer foreign 
friends a better understanding of Chinese culture, helping them learn 
the knowledge of Chinese. Meanwhile, plenty of terms, historical and 
geographical concepts and philosophical theories are introduced in 
details to provide Chinese foreign language learners with a deep 
understanding of the rich connotations of Chinese traditional culture.