The Kung Fu series, a set of learning material on the Chinese language, is the product of collaborative efforts of experts from mainland China, Hong Kong and the U.S. It aims at providing texts and exercises that will have fresh and accurate language, communicate effectively with an international audience, have clear and orderly structural explanations, and contain a good number of contextual, task-based exercises for stimulating students to higher levels of fluency.

This Student Exercise Manual (I) is designed to be used in conjunction with the Kung Fu (I) textbook. It contains two types of material for use by students outside class: (1) Chinese script introduction and practice and (2) lesson exercises.

Chinese writing material covers:

‧The standard simplified version of characters introduced in each lesson;

‧Stroke-by-stroke break down of each newly introduced character;

‧The radical, or indicator, of each character;

‧The traditional form of the character in the far right column, should it differ from the simplified;

‧A gridded page for writing practice once correct stroke order has been learned.

Lesson exercises reinforce material introduced and each lesson. They include question-answer, completion and conversion, sentence construction, and translation formats.

譯／編／作者簡介

John C. Jamieson was Director of New-Asia -- Yale-in-China Chinese Language Center and Office of International Studies Programme and Professor of Asian Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong before his retirement in 2001. He is Emeritus Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures ats,...