text: CHIN 334 continues to further develop students' language skills and understanding of Chinese culture and society. Each week students are scheduled to study one short text focusing on a topic on Chinese culture and society, including origins of the Chinese nation, the tradition of arranged marriage, family planning, Chinese education and Chinese legends. Students are also required to read independently one other short text each week in order to broaden their vocabulary and to consolidate the new grammar items learned in the week. The teaching is interactive between the instructor and students with a combination of oral discussion, grammar explanation and sentence-making activities. The emphasis is on the skills to understand conventional narrative and descriptive texts as well as the ability to speak and write about topics related to Chinese culture and current issues of public and community interest.
  Required: Weijia Huang and Qun Ao. Learning Chinese Language and Culture: Intermediate Chinese Textbook. Vol. 1 (CUHK Press, 2019). (Available at the University Book Shop)
  The ability to derive meanings from conventional narrative and descriptive texts that are structurally and/or conceptually more complex such as expanded descriptions of persons, places and things, as well as narrations about past, present and future events..