Unit 1  Overview: East Meets West

  Text A  Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills

    Part IV  Cultural Note

  Text B  Place of Philosophy in Chinese Civilization

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Cultural Note

Unit 2  Geography

  Text A  Geographical Inequalities

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills

    Part IV  Cultural Note

  Text B  A Clear and Present Danger: The Chinese Exclusion Act

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Cultural Note

Unit 3  History

  Text A  China Turns Inward

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills

    Part IV  Cultural Note

  Text B  Conceit and Military Weakness During the Song Dynasty

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Cultural Note

Unit 4  Arts

  Text A  Peony Dreams

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part IT  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills

    Part IV  Cultural Note

  Text B  The Three Perfections: Painting, Poetry and Calligraphy Classification of Chinese Traditional Paintings

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Cultural Note

Unit 5  Literature

  Text A  Four Schools of Fiction in the Ching Dynasty and Their Later Development

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills

    Part IV  Cultural Notes

  Text B  Will Mo Yan's Nobel Prize Finally Mean Better Sales Abroad?

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Cultural Note

Unit 6  Way of Living

  Text A  The Cult of "Face"

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills

    Part IV  Cultural Note

  Text B  The Chinese Theory of Leisure

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Cultural Note

Unit 7  Science and Technoloqy

  Text A  Influences of the Chinese Religious Systems on Medicine

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills

    Part IV  Cultural Note

  Text B  Environment

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Cultural Note

Unit 8  Education

  Text A  Intellectual Freedom and Chinese Education

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills

    Part IV  Cultural Note

  Text B  Yenching University: A Dream that Came True

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Cultural Note

Unit 9  Language

  Text A  The Second Great Reform of Chinese Writing

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills

    Part IV  Cultural Note

  Text B  Confucius Says ...

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Cultural Note

Unit 10  Recreation

  Text A  On Going About and Seeing Things

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills

    Part IV  Cultural Note

  Text B  Thinking Rocks, Living Stones: Reflections on Chinese Lithophilia

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Cultural Note

Unit 11  Population

  Text A  Making a Selfish Generation by Fiat

    Part I   Understanding the Text

    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary

    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills

    Part IV  Cultural Note

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