Advanced Modern Chinese: Learning through Contemporary Film aims to develop advanced-level Chinese students’ language skills through movies and broaden their knowledge about China, while also developing their appreciation of the artistic characteristics of film.
This textbook is based on the principles of content-based instruction and ACTFL Foreign Language Proficiency Guidelines for the "advanced" level. The authors carefully selected ten movies, of which eight were released after 2015, by filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States. Rich themes are covered in this book and placed in ascending order from easy to difficult. The authors provide an informative movie critique in each lesson, followed by exercises on new words and grammar, pre-class preparation questions, in-depth classroom discussion points and after-class exercises on reading and writing. The authors also provide commentary on film cinematography covering topics such as film type, lens type, sound, editing and light in order to allow students to explore and analyze the artistic characteristics of film more systematically.
This textbook is specially designed for advanced-level Chinese students to learn Chinese through movies.
目录 Contents
前言 Preface
第一单元：美国人镜头下的中国 China through the Lens of Americans
第一课：《别告诉她》：一个谎言背后的故事
Chapter 1: The Farewell: The Story Behind a Lie
第二课：《花木兰》：勇敢做自己
Chapter 2: Mulan: Be True to Yourself
第二单元：爱的启示 Love and Inspiration
第三课：《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》：与癌症斗争的一年
Chapter 3: Go Away！Mr. Tumor: A Year to Battle Cancer
第四课：《谁先爱上他的》：爱是毒药，还是解药？
Chapter 4: Dear Ex: Is Love a Poison or an Antidote?
第三单元：校园与社会 Campus and Society
第五课：《归途列车》：不归之途
Chapter 5: Last Train Home: A Journey of No Return
第六课：《少年的你》: 愿你被世界温柔相待
Chapter 6: Better Days: May You Be Treated with Tenderness
第四单元：道德与法律 Ethics and Law
第七课：《亲爱的》：寻子路上的爱与恨
Chapter 7: Dearest: Love and Hatred on the Road to Find Lost Children
第八课：《我不是药神》：小人物的救赎
Chapter 8: Dying to Survive: The Redemption of Underprivileged People
第五单元：动画与科幻 Animation and Science Fiction
第九课：《流浪地球》：带着人类去流浪
Chapter 9: The Wandering Earth: Taking Humans to Wander
第十课：《哪吒之魔童降世》：生而为魔，改写命运
Chapter 10: Ne Zha: Born to Be a Devil to Rewrite Fate
电影专业术语表 Film Terms Glossary
Biography
Yujia Ye is an assistant instructional professor in the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, USA.
Shu Zhang is an instructor in the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, USA. She has co-authored Test Syllabus Interpretation for International Chinese Language Teacher Certificate.
"The textbook incorporates the most recent Chinese films (after the 2010s) into the advanced Chinese language teaching and learning, which is innovative and informative. The textbook answers the call of involving more culturally and socially embedded topics into the day-to-day Chinese language teaching and learning practice."
Dr. Shasha Wang, School of Arts, Culture and Language, Bangor University, Wales, UK
