Unit 1  Overview: East Meets West
  Text A  Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills
    Part IV  Cultural Note
  Text B  Place of Philosophy in Chinese Civilization
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Cultural Note
Unit 2  Geography
  Text A  Geographical Inequalities
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills
    Part IV  Cultural Note
  Text B  A Clear and Present Danger: The Chinese Exclusion Act
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Cultural Note
Unit 3  History
  Text A  China Turns Inward
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills
    Part IV  Cultural Note
  Text B  Conceit and Military Weakness During the Song Dynasty
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Cultural Note
Unit 4  Arts
  Text A  Peony Dreams
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part IT  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills
    Part IV  Cultural Note
  Text B  The Three Perfections: Painting, Poetry and Calligraphy Classification of Chinese Traditional Paintings
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Cultural Note
Unit 5  Literature
  Text A  Four Schools of Fiction in the Ching Dynasty and Their Later Development
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills
    Part IV  Cultural Notes
  Text B  Will Mo Yan's Nobel Prize Finally Mean Better Sales Abroad?
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Cultural Note
Unit 6  Way of Living
  Text A  The Cult of "Face"
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills
    Part IV  Cultural Note
  Text B  The Chinese Theory of Leisure
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Cultural Note
Unit 7  Science and Technoloqy
  Text A  Influences of the Chinese Religious Systems on Medicine
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills
    Part IV  Cultural Note
  Text B  Environment
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Cultural Note
Unit 8  Education
  Text A  Intellectual Freedom and Chinese Education
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills
    Part IV  Cultural Note
  Text B  Yenching University: A Dream that Came True
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Cultural Note
Unit 9  Language
  Text A  The Second Great Reform of Chinese Writing
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills
    Part IV  Cultural Note
  Text B  Confucius Says ...
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Cultural Note
Unit 10  Recreation
  Text A  On Going About and Seeing Things
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills
    Part IV  Cultural Note
  Text B  Thinking Rocks, Living Stones: Reflections on Chinese Lithophilia
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Cultural Note
Unit 11  Population
  Text A  Making a Selfish Generation by Fiat
    Part I   Understanding the Text
    Part II  Building Your Vocabulary
    Part III  Critical Thinking Skills
    Part IV  Cultural Note
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