Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9782360572717
Collection: Langues INALCO
17 x 24 cm
Weight: 934 gr
Pages: 560
Edition :
2020
First publication: 25/07/2017
Last printing: 08-2022
This manual is designed for the first degree at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris (INALCO) and follows the Chinese Method, first level (L'Asiathèque, New edition 2017), used during the initiation of the same institution. These two books form the basis of a four-year university degree from a department specializing in Chinese studies. After a rational and regular study of the two volumes, the learner knows 1000 usual characters and about 2000 common words, as well as the basic grammar of modern Chinese. This knowledge will enable him to communicate orally and in writing on subjects related to everyday life and society (CEFR level B1 and HSK level 4). To promote listening comprehension and oral expression, this is the guideline of this book, which is accompanied by a rich sound recording (QR codes inside the book and audio download on the site). Solutions to oral comprehension exercises, translation of texts, solutions to written exercises. (in French) The three authors, Zhitang Yang-Drocourt, Liu Hong and Fan Jianmin, with Isabelle Rabut, who contributed to this book, have participated in various capacities in the writing of First Level Chinese Method. They ensured perfect continuity between the two volumes. Drawings by Denis 'Pic' Lelièvre. Supplement to the method: transcription in Pinyin of texts and dialogues. Accompaniment available for actively memorizing 500 additional common characters taught in the Chinese Method, second level: Chinese Writing Exercises II Five hundred additional common characters.
Zhitang Yang-Drocourt is professor emeritus of universities. She has taught at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco).
Liu Hong, senior lecturer at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, defended a thesis entitled Une vision de la Chine lettrée et de sa bureaucratie sous les Song du Nord (960-1127) (2007). Her research focuses on the literature of notebooks (Biji 筆記) and the history of the literati of the Song period. She has published ‘The Dhāranī Practice of Great Compassion in Twelfth-Century China According to the Yi jian zhi (1198)’ in Empreintes du tantrisme en Chine et en Asie orientale (Peeters, Louvain, 2017) and ‘Les Relations entre les monoines bouddhistes et les lettrés lors de la renaissance confucéenne dans la Chine des Song du Nord’ in Construction and Interpretation of the Daotong: In the Perspectives of Chinese and Korean Neo-Confucianism (no. 4, Zhedong Xueshu, 2020).
Fan Jianmin is a language teacher at Inalco.
Isabelle Rabut is a university professor, she teaches Chinese language and literature at Inalco.