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 Cultural Note
Text B Place of Philosophy in Chinese Civilization
Part I Understanding the Text
Part II Building Your Vocabulary
Part III Cultural Note
Text C Complex of the Forbidden City
Chinese Cultural Treasures
Unit 2 History
Text A China Turns Inward
Part I Understanding the Text
Part II Building Your Vocabulary
Part III 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
Text C Eurasian Bridge into the Future
Chinese Cultural Treasures
Unit 3 Arts
Text A Guqin:Humble and Haughty
Part I Understanding the Text
Part II Building Your Vocabulary
Part III 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
Text C Guan Pinghu the Guqin Master
Chinese Cultural Treasures
Unit 4 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 Cultural Notes
Text B The Treatment of Gender Relations in Fiction
Part I Understanding the Text
Part II Building Your Vocabulary
Text C Chinese Scholars in Tang Dynasty
Chinese Cultural Treasures
Unit 5 Science and Technology
Text A Influences of the Chinese Religious Systems on Medicine
Part I Understanding the Text
Part II Building Your Vocabulary
Part III Cultural Note
Text B The Westward Flow of Techniques
Text C China Shocked the World with a Project That Even Western Countries Dared Not Take On