The “New Standard Chinese Undergraduate Series” is a set of Chinese undergraduate textbooks based on the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education, adhering to the integration of “structure-function-culture” and upholding comprehensive quality training featured “language + professionalism” throughout. Aiming at better meeting the needs of Chinese language teaching for international students coming to China for undergraduate studies under the new standard, this series is based on the concepts of “diversification, three-dimensionality, innovation and intelligence”, and is mainly tailor-made for international students coming to China for undergraduate studies in Chinese language. Meanwhile, it can be used in relevant training courses at home and abroad, and meet the learning needs of long-term advanced students and self-taught learners coming to China to study Chinese. The whole set is divided into three levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and two sequences (horizontal and vertical). The horizontal sequence is divided into four major sections, including Chinese language skills and knowledge, cultural knowledge, translation between Chinese and foreign languages, and business Chinese, while the vertical sequence is based on comprehensive teaching materials, supplemented by teaching materials for listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, which are used throughout the first to the fourth year of undergraduate education, so that the ratio of general skills courses with professional skills and knowledge courses at all levels can be balanced to ensure that students can obtain in-depth and balanced learning effects at all stages of study.

 

Elementary Chinese Comprehensive Course is a series of textbooks for elementary-level comprehensive language courses, divided into 4 volumes. This book is Volume 4. It contains 14 lessons in total, with each lesson consisting of several key sections including Lesson Focus, Warm-up, Text, Vocabulary, Key Words, Grammar, Comprehensive Application, and Extended Reading. The entire textbook is structured around linguistic structures and guided by themes, adhering to the learner-centered compilation principle. The textual materials are both informative and interesting, with an emphasis on fostering cross-cultural communication competence to meet learners’ cognitive needs. It attaches great importance to training in paragraph-level expression and writing, and the dialogues and texts are of appropriate length and depth, aiming to strengthen learners’ competence in Chinese discourse, and lay a solid foundation for their Chinese learning at the intermediate and advanced stages.

 

Intermediate Chinese Comprehensive Course is a series of intermediate comprehensive textbooks with 2 volumes in total. This book is the first volume.

 

Intermediate Chinese Comprehensive Course has 12 lessons in total, each consisting of the learning focus, warm-up, the text, a word list, key words, language points, comprehension and expression exercise of the text, extended reading and exercises, and general knowledge of the language and culture. The topics involved cover interpersonal communication, interesting things of life, study and work, changing concepts of the times, famous historical figures in Chinese culture, people and animals, health and life, psychology and life, as well as geography and cuisine in Chinese culture. Through the study of this textbook, students can learn and master communicative skills such as how to introduce themselves in formal situations (letters), tell an interesting story about themselves, narrate an event in a clear and logical sequence, illustrate the differences and similarities of people’s ideas through concrete examples, imitate to write based on a given passage, introduce a famous person, express their personal opinions and discuss(debate) them, conduct a questionnaire and oral (written) report, tell about their learning experiences and gains.

 

This textbook is equipped with supporting courseware, which can be self-accessed in the one-code-for-one-book resource zone under the scratch-off silver coating on the back cover of the book.

 

This textbook is designed for zero-proficiency learners, short-term Chinese language program participants, and learners at home and abroad who take Chinese as a major or an elective course, covering one semester of study. It is recommended that 8 to 10 class hours (with each class hour being 50 minutes) be allocated on average to complete one lesson.