A Nice Lady in Shanghai and Other Stories, First Edition, by Zhy Yong - ©2011 from BFW High School Publishers

A Nice Lady in Shanghai and Other Stories

First  Edition©2011  Zhy Yong

ISBN:9780230406605

About

Part of the four-level Tian Tian Zhongwen series, Nice Lady in Shanghai and Other Stories is a Mandarin Chinese language reader for upper-elementary to upper-intermediate Chinese language learners. Twenty colorful and enjoyable stories and articles about China cover a wide group of topics, including modern China, ancient fables, history, culture, and lifestyle. The stories help students increase their comfort with Chinese reading and improve Simplified Chinese character recognition through meaningful and stimulating contexts.

Table of Contents

1. What does "?" mean?
2. A naughty child
3. I am tired!
4. How would you choose?
5. Hugging—Not a Chinese custom
6. Sharing household chores
7. What “?” means upside down
8. Speed-walking for 30 minutes a day
9. The fox and the tiger
10. Training an explorer
11. Cute pandas
12. Deep-fried dough sticks
13. White lies
14. Icelanders’ longevity
15. The winner of an essay competition
16. A nice lady in Shanghai
17. Three funny stories
18. Meng: A Chinese family name
19. Qi Bishi
20. A bad host

Zhu Yong

Mr. Zhu Yong is a professor of the School of Chinese of Beijing Foreign Languages University. He has been teaching graduate courses such as Second Language Learning Research, Teaching Reading & Research, and courses for overseas students like Comprehensive Chinese, Oral Chinese and Reading, etc. Zhu Yong taught at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies from 2005 to 2007. From 2010 to present, Zhu Yong has been the Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute of Rome University in Italy. His research interests are CSL vocabulary, teaching reading, and development of teaching materials. He has published over 20 articles in journals like Chinese Teaching in the World, Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies. He is also the editor-in-chief of over ten textbooks including Tiantian Zhongwen Readers.