"China through the Camera Lens combines Chinese language learning with film analysis, offering a unique and comprehensive learning experience beyond traditional methods. The book consists of twelve chapters, each based on a carefully selected short film or video. Each chapter is divided into a presentation section and a practice section. The presentation includes short narratives illustrated with color screen shots, with vocabulary glossed alongside for easy reference. It also introduces relevant film terms to help students focus on filmmaking techniques as well as the content of the films. The practice sections cover word collocations, near synonyms, word meanings, idiomatic phrases, paragraph structure, topics for class discussion, composition practice, and extended reading. By integrating short films, cultural insights, and film analysis, learners not only enhance their language skills but also gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between film and content. This book is an innovative and engaging advanced Chinese language textbook that immerses advanced Chinese learners in language and culture through short films and videos"--
China through the Camera Lens combines Chinese language learning with film analysis, offering a unique and comprehensive learning experience beyond traditional methods.
The book consists of twelve chapters, each based on a carefully selected short film or video. Each chapter is divided into a presentation section and a practice section. The presentation includes short narratives illustrated with color screen shots, with vocabulary glossed alongside for easy reference. It also introduces relevant film terms to help students focus on filmmaking techniques as well as the content of the films. The practice sections cover word collocations, near synonyms, word meanings, idiomatic phrases, paragraph structure, topics for class discussion, composition practice, and extended reading. By integrating short films, cultural insights, and film analysis, learners not only enhance their language skills but also gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between film and content.
This book is an innovative and engaging advanced Chinese language textbook that immerses advanced Chinese learners in language and culture through short films and videos.
China through the Camera Lens combines Chinese language learning with film analysis, offering a unique and comprehensive learning experience beyond traditional methods.
Chinese Preface
English Preface
Abbreviations
(Unit 1) Love and affection within the family
TOPIC 1 |
Daughter: how love and affection restored the harmony between two generations
of a family
TOPIC 2 |
Whats Peppa Pig?: rural versus urban, ties between grandparents and
grandchildren
(Unit 2) Coming of age stories
TOPIC 3 |
Baby Bao. Chinese parent-child relationships
TOPIC 4 |
Please vote for me: democracy: imagined and performed
(Unit 3) Gender politics
TOPIC 5: |
A long cherished dream: the story of Lin Bao
TOPIC 6: |
From one child to three: an unpopular promotional video
(Unit 4) The lives of ordinary people
TOPIC 7 |
Long time no see, Wuhan: ten people, ten stories, one city
TOPIC 8 |
Chinas van Goghs: a conversation across time and space
(Unit 5) Man and nature
TOPIC 9 |
Nature is speaking: listen carefully to her voice
TOPIC 10 |
Kingdom of plastic: mobile trash a video record
(Unit 6) Diverse perspectives on multiculturalism
TOPIC 11 |
Africans in Yiwu: stories about Africans in China
TOPIC 12 |
American factory: cultural conflicts and capitalist schemes
Answer Keys
Vocabulary Lists
Shuqin Cui is Bowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College.
Ying Gao is Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Virginia.
Hsin-hsin Liang is Professor of Chinese, General Faculty, at the University of Virginia in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Julian K. Wheatley (Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley) has spent a good deal of his professional life directing language programs, first at Cornell University and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since retiring from MIT, he has been based in New Orleans and has held visiting positions in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Zhuhai/Shenzhen.
