This book introduces ten Chinese works including Dream of Red Mansions, Journey to the West, Outlaws of the Marsh, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Mulan Poem, Strange Tales from a Scholar’s Studio, Romance of the West Chamber, The Peony Pavilion, The Orphan of Zhao, and The Legend of Deification. Besides these, there are also cultural notes such as Redology, (Sun WuKong) causing havoc in Heaven, scripts for story-telling in Song and Yuan folk literature, swearing brotherhood in Peach Garden, Three Visits to the Hut, the idiom that “women who are as excellent as their male colleagues”, “Hundred good filial first”, Pu Songling, imperial examination, people’s view on marriage in ancient China, andHistorical Records, etc.

Meiru LIU, the master and doctor of China study, the professor of Chinese Language and Culture in Portland State University in the United States, and the foreign director of Confucius Institute (2007-2015). She has more than 30 years of experience in Chinese-teaching, cultural communication and transmission and has compiled many TCFL textbooks. Lina LU, the master of culture communication, the doctor of pedagogy in Portland State University in the United States and the president of ATCO. Since 1986, she has been teaching Chinese and the cultural comparison between China and the U.S in many universities of America and Canada.