Chinese Language, Literature & Culture

A two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background. Designed to build a strong foundation in both spoken and written language through basic skills of pronunciation, character writing, word use and structures,and communicative skills.

Fourth-year language learning or above in preparation for real-life business situations

Contains twenty contributions from leading experts in the field of Chinese SLA, covering a wide range of topics such as social contexts, linguistic perspectives, skill learning, individual differences and learning settings and testing.

Up-to-date Mandarin Chinese Dictionary with both Chinese to English and English to Chinese sections.

For learners of Mandarin Chinese, providing a list of the 5,000 words and the 2,000 Chinese characters (simplified) most commonly used in the language. Based on a fifty-million-word corpus composed of spoken, fiction, non-fiction and news texts in current use,

Chinese proficiency test vocabulary guide. In Chinese.

A two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background. Designed to build a strong foundation in both spoken and written language through basic skills of pronunciation, character writing, word use and structures,and communicative skills.

Fourth-year language learning or above in preparation for real-life business situations

Contains twenty contributions from leading experts in the field of Chinese SLA, covering a wide range of topics such as social contexts, linguistic perspectives, skill learning, individual differences and learning settings and testing.

The Chinese language has the longest well-documented history among all human languages, making it an invaluable resource for studying how languages develop and change through time. Based on a twenty-year long research project, this pioneering book is the English version of an award-winning study originally published in Chinese. It provides an evolutionary perspective on the history of Chinese grammar, tracing its development from its thirteenth-Century BC origins to the present day. It investigates all the major changes in the history of the language within contemporary linguistic frameworks, and illustrates these with a wide range of examples taken from every stage in the language's development, showing how the author's findings are relevant to contemporary descriptive, theoretical, and historical linguistics. Shedding light on the essential properties of Chinese and, ultimately, language in general, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of Asian linguistics, historical linguistics and syntactic theory.

Simulated tests for Chinese language proficiency. In Chinese.

Available in print and as an e-book

Available as an e-book

Available as an e-book

Stroke orders for over 3,400 Chinese simplified characters, for all Chinese learners from beginner to advanced. Includes meanings and sample expressions.

This is a beginning-level course in written Chinese that employs a revolutionary new method designed to have you quickly reading and writing simple, connected Chinese sentences.

Each of the 28 units deals with a grammatical topic and provides associated exercises, designed to put grammar into a communicative context.

Designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language.

Cantonese is a language from southern China that is spoken by roughly 70 million people worldwide. It is the language of Hong Kong cinema and has traditionally been the most prominent language spoken in Chinatowns around the world.

Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Cantonese. No prior knowledge of the language is required.