Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press BOOKS

China in Movies

Price: ?240/set

Size: 137×195mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0964-0 (Chinese History)

Author: International Chinese Research and Development Center of FLTRP

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in September, 2011

“China in Movies” series includes eight theme-based modules, namely, Chinese History, China Today, Images of China, Chinese Cartoons, Chinese Kung Fu, Chinese Operas, Outstanding Figures of China, Relationships in China, Chinese Music, and each module includes representative movies that revolve around the given theme. It will help people fully grasp the essence of Chinese culture as they enjoy Chinese movies.

Excel in Chinese (Better Chinese, Better Access 1 & Better Chinese, Better Business 1)

Price: ?50/vol.

Size: 210×285mm

ISBN: (Better Chinese, Better Access 1)

978-7-5135-1133-9 (Better Chinese, Better Business 1)

Author: Li Rulong (Better Chinese, Better Access 1)

Wang Huiling, Zhou Hong (Better Chinese, Better Business 1)

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in August, 2011

“Excel in Chinese” series are specifically designed for Chinese learners who are currently or about to intern or work in China, and also suitable for foreign business people who are concerned with China’s economic issues or business culture. This series includes practical supplementary contents such as CV writing and tips for job hunting.

Reading China

Reading China is a progressive, reader-friendly series of reading materials especially designed for non-native Chinese learners, for in-class or extra-curricular reading. The main features of Reading China are as follows:

Graded-Reading Materials: Five progressive grades, each in several volumes tailored for different levels of learners.

Topics of China: An outlook of modern Chinese society is provided from various aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation, co-existence of traditional customs and modern life practices, language, culture, and economy, etc.

Short and Simple Articles: Different forms of short articles written in simple and humorous language are appealing to read.

Books with MP3: Each book comes with an MP3, and learners can read and listen to authentic Chinese at the same time.

Insights into Chinese Culture

Ye Lang Zhu Liangzhi,Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in April, 2008 (Chinese Edition)

This title is written for readers both at home and abroad who have some basic knowledge of the Chinese language and are interested in Chinese culture. With detailed and vivid introduction to certain unique features and highlights of Chinese culture, it represents the spirit and core value of Chinese culture, especialy. those with universal and contemporary significance, esp. paying attention to the cultural character, life views, aesthetic pursuits and national spirit of the Chinese people.

China Stories

Tie Ning Wang Zengqi,Shi Tiesheng, Helmut Matt, etc.,Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,October, 2011,Language: English-Chinese

The China Stories series is dedicated to those who are fond of stories and hope to know about China. The reason why the complier has chosen this way of storytelling is that while people nowadays may easily get to know a country by turning on the television, surfing the Internet or touching a cell-phone screen, we believe stories make China look more vivid, serene and down-to-earth than media or political or economic commentators, historical archives or museums do. The stories or “storytellers” generally falls into two categories. Firstly, small works of big names in contemporary Chinese literature, such as The Story of a Young Monk by Wang Zengqi and Ah, Fragrant Snow by Tie Ning; And Chinese tales told by writers from other lands from the “other” perspective, like The Magic of the White Snake by the German freelancer Helmut Matt.

FLTRP New HSK Class Series

Zheng Lijie,Luo Lin,Liang Dongmei,Lu Wenxia, etc.,Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,January 2012,Language: Chinese

FLTRP New HSK Class Series is a comprehensive set of exam training materials targeting the students, listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. This series is closely linked to the new HSK curriculum and covers all the focal points of the new HSK exam. This series helps students to easily achieve high grades through 21 days of intensive training.

Access Chinese

Jun Liu,Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,January, 2012,Language: English

In Access Chinese, students learn Chinese language and culture through a dual story line in which a twins Bill and Jenny study Chinese during their freshman year, Bill in China, and Jenny in the U.S. In Access Chinese, contextualized grammar, communicative practice, and engaging cultural information are all intertwined, creating a learning environment appropriate for the successful acquisition of the language as well as an opportunity to explore cultural contexts.

Access Chinese deals with contemporary topics that are of high interest and relevance to students and teachers around the world. A variety of interesting and enjoyable tasks and activities provide individualized exercises and enable learners to apply the language they learn into real practice. In order not to overwhelm the learners, all the words and expressions in the textbook are treated with differential requirements.

Chinese Architecture: Art and Artifacts (English-Chinese Edition)

Price: ?99 (Hardback),?66 (Paperback)

Size: 152×228mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0732-5 (Hardback),978-7-5135-0614-4 (Paperback)

Author: Written by Liang Sicheng and compiled by Lin Zhu

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in April, 2011

This book selects eight English articles on Chinese architecture by the Chinese architect Liang Sicheng, along with about 100 valuable architectural drawings and photographs. It is an English-language scholarly account of the most erudite studies on Chinese architectural history, covering art and architecture, Buddhist cave sculpture, the Chinese oldest wooden structure, early pagodas, etc.

Economic Reform and Development the Chinese Way (English Edition)

Price: ?89 ((English Edition),?80 (Chinese- English Edition))

Size: 165×230mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0089-0

Author: Written by Li Yining and translated by Ling Yuan

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in September, 2010

This book includes 16 papers written by the Chinese economist Li Yining, reflecting his main academic viewpoints since the reform and opening up, and expounding on such important issues as industry restructuring, growth and fluctuations in economic disequilibrium, etc.

Has Man a Future? Dialogues with the Last Confucian (English-Chinese Edition)

Price:?45.00

Size: 152×228mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0084-5

Author: Written by Liang Shuming and Guy Salvatore Alitto

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2010

Conversations in 1980 between Liang Shuming, one of the early representatives of modern Neo-Confucianism, and Guy S. Alitto, a renowned American sinologist and translator of the book. Selects the conversations that best reflect Liang’s thought and experience, reviewing the social and historical events of modern China, along with Liang’s reflection on his contact with many famous people, e.g., Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Chiang Kai-shek, Hu Shih, etc. This title is a good reference to the research and understanding of modern China in the first half of the 20th century.

The Beginnings of Chinese Civilization (English-Chinese Edition)

Price:?30.00

Size: 152×228mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0612-0

Author: Written by Li Chi

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2011

Anthology of archaeological and anthropological writing in English by Li Chi, the founding father of China’s modern archaeology. Traces back the rise of Chinese civilization as well as the origin of its people following the steps of the pioneering researchers of this land. Briefs the rise of China’s archaeology as a scientific subject owing to the confluence of the methods of fieldwork from the West and the traditional antiquarian studies.

Peasant Life in China—A Field Study of Country Life in the Yangtze Valley (English-Chinese Edition)

Price:?60.00

Size: 152×228mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0268-9

Author: Written by Fei Hsiao-tung

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2010

For readers and researchers interested in Chinese anthropology and sociology. Fei Hsiao-tung’s doctorial dissertation at the London School of Economics with a preface by B. Malinowski. A monograph which epitomizes the transformation of Chinese traditional culture under the Western pressure, describing at first hand and with intimate understanding the full story of life in a Chinese village community in the 1930s.

China’s Gentry—Essays in Rural-Urban Relations (English-Chinese Edition)

Price:?30.00

Size: 152×228mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0602-1

Author: Written by Fei Hsiao-tung

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2011

Edited upon Fei’s dictation in English, these succinct chapters are a general description of the Chinese rural area and overall society and an extension of Fei’s early fieldwork researches. There are two interrelated themes—the functions of the scholar and the gentry in the traditional Chinese society and the relations of the country and the city, which are key to the understanding of the “hyper-stability” of the traditional Chinese society and the upheaval of the modern Chinese society.

A Paradise Lost—The Imperial Garden Yuanming Yuan (English-Chinese Edition)

Price:?66.00

Size: 152×228mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0155-2

Author: Written by Wong Young-tsu

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2010

For readers and researchers interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. The first comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex in a Western language, amply illustrated with photographs and original drawings. In an engaging style, Wong Young-tsu brings “the garden of perfect brightness” to life as he leads readers on a grand tour of its architecture and history. On the 150th anniversary of the sacking of Yuanming Yuan, Wong Young-tsu and French historian Bernard Brizay held a dialogue in front of the ruins of the Palace.

When I Was There—Selected Speeches of Fu Ying (English-Chinese Edition)

Price: ?39

Size: 170×228mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0613-7

Author: Written by Fu Ying

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in July, 2011

This book is a collection of 20 speeches, most made on Fu Ying’s post as Ambassador to Australia and the UK, along with several articles and interviews on major UK media, addressing the relationship between China and the West in a clear, concise and logical discourse. It is one of the must-read books for those interested in understanding modern China: what kind of country China is, why it is so different, how it can generate such explosive productivity, and in what way China is to be understood by the world.

The International Development of China (Bilingual Classics of Liberal Arts)(English-Chinese)

Price: ?45

Size: 152×228mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-1540-5

Author: Sun Yat-sen

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2011

This book was the rough sketch of Dr Sun's requirements to modernize China. In this book, Dr. Sun Yat-sen elaborated his desire of how Nationalist China would carry out her program of economic reconstruction and development in terms of railroads and highways, river conservancy and irrigation, new ports and modern cities, basic industries by absorbing international capital coming to China.

Kidnapped in London (English-Chinese)

Price: ?15

Size: 152×228mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-1548-1

Author: Sun Yat-sen

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2011

After the failure of the Guangzhou uprising in 1895, Sun Yat-sen was imperatively wanted by the Qing government. On September 30, 1896, Sun Yat-sen arrived at London. Ten days later, he was captured by secret agents of the Qing government and imprisoned at Chinese legation in London. Thanks to the persistent efforts of his friends, Sun was released on 23 October. Kidnapped in London is a detailed record of this experience. It was written by Sun Yat-sen in English and first published in UK in 1897. It has been translated and published in Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

Vanished Springs (Chinese & English editions)

Price: ?29

Size: 145×210mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0610-6

Author: Written by Xu Yuanchong

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in July, 2011

Autobiography of Xu Yuanchong, one of the best renowned and most productive Chinese-English/French translators, who advocates and earnestly practices the principle of poetic translation — from rhythmic poems to rhythmic poems. Relating his youth spent with those figures who had profound influences in various realms during the 20th century in China, to name a few, the Neo-Confucian Fung Yu-lan, famous poet Wen Yiduo and Pien Chih-lin, and Nobel Prize winner Yang Zhenning.

If We do not Take Action, What about the People? (Chinese Edition)

Price: ?38

Size: 170×230mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0451-5

Author: Written by Liang Shuming and Guy Salvatore Alitto

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and People’s Publishing House in September, 2010

This book gives a chronological account of the interviews in 1984 with the “Last Confucian” Liang Shuming by Guy S. Alitto. Compared with the 1980 conversations, this book concentrates more on his intercourse with such important figures as Liang Qichao, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kaishek, and his legendary experiences, e.g., teaching at Peking University at the age of 24, mediating between CCP and KMT before 1949, devoting himself in rural construction, establishing the Guangmingbao, etc.

Break Through – The Birth of China’s Opening-Up Policy (English Edition)

Price: ?99

Size: 165×230mm

ISBN: 978-7-5600-8433-6

Author: Li Lanqing

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2010

With an unmistakable sense of reality, thorough attention to minute detail and rich philosophical thought, Break Through – The Birth of China’s Opening-Up Policy amounts to a living history of contemporary China. To be more specific, it is a book on the opening-up policy, a profoundly significant and influential event in human history, perhaps the greatest revolution of our time. Li Lanqing, one of the most important figures in these events, provides the narrative ordered by his own memory. Break Through honors the 30th anniversary of the reform and opening-up policy by telling an exciting, dramatic, and personal story, using many pictures, documents, and sources that have not been seen before.

Twelve Towers (English, Chinese)

Price: ?24

Size: 145×210mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-1378-4

Author: Li Yu

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2011

Twelve Towers is a collection of a dozen vernacular Chinese short stories by the renowned seventeenth century fiction writer, dramatist, and drama critic Li Yu, often identified by his tzu, Li Li-weng (1611-1680). It presents a vivid and realistic picture of Chinese society in the seventeenth century and a wide-ranging yet detailed study of characters with the traditional themes of Chinese fiction. These are stories of idyllic charm, bedroom farce and innocent romance. The plots are full of surprises and sexual crises. These features have made the collection immensely popular in China. Now Nathan Mao and Weiting R. Mao have rendered the twelve stories into modern English for the benefit of a larger audience.

Rediscovering Hu Shih (Chinese Edition)

Price: ?45

Size: 152×228mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0756-1

Author: Written by Geng Yunzhi

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2011

A collection of Geng Yunzhi’s researches on Hu Shih for over 30 years. What role did Hu Shih play in the New Culture Movement? What groundbreaking contributions did he make in the field of academy and education? As a scholar ambassador, what role did he play in the diplomatic stage? Around these interesting topics, the author explores a way to “rediscover Hu Shih.”

Snapshots of America (Chinese Edition)

Price: ?20

Size: 128×182mm

ISBN: 978-7-5600-8505-0

Author: Written by Nie Shengzhe

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2010

A collection of short stories beautifully illustrated about the author's experience in America, covering family and marriage, social life, culture education, and so on. The title offers a vivid description in a natural and humorous manner about life in America in the eyes of a Chinese.

Pien Chih-Lin: A Study in Modern Chinese Poetry (Chinese Edition)

Price: ?20

Size: 152×228mm

ISBN: 978-7-5600-9961-3

Author: Written by Lloyd Haft

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2010

Biological monograph based on the author's doctoral dissertation on Pien Chih-Lin, one of the most influential and distinctive poets in contemporary China, and his poetry. Logic thinking, thorough analysis, fluent writing and high readability.

By the Bog of Cats (Chinese Edition)

Price: ?15

Size: 128×183mm

ISBN: 978-7-5135-0038-8

Author: Written by Lloyd Haft

Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2010

The Chinese edition of the Irish play By the Bog of Cats, which tells about a prototype story of abandonment and revenge in the framework of the ancient Greek tragedy Medea. The play had its premiere in Dublin’s Abbe Theatre in 1998 and was performed in America in 2001.