Video/Book News
Joël Bellassen A video course in spoken Chinese for beginners, Chinese Step by Step
is intended for university students, high-school students, or anyone with an
interest for Chinese. The course materials include 270 minutes of films on three
videocassettes; an accompanying booklet providing the texts and exercises for
films in three languages, French, English and Chinese, as well as in Chinese
pinyin transcription. For more information, contact: ENS Lettres et Sciences
Humaines ENS
Chinese Step by Step
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Yenna Wu This is a comprehensive study of the ameliorative satire as a genre in
classical Chinese fiction. Yenna Wu traces the genealogy of the genre from the
late Ming to the mid-Qing and delineates a fascinating aspect of Chinese
fiction. This book can serve as a sourcebook for readers interested in gender,
religion, martial ethics and the practice of everyday life in late imperial
China.
Ameliorative satire and the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel Xingshi Yinyuan
Zhuan—Marriage as Retribution, Awakening the World. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin
Mellen Press, 1999.