Zu-yan Chen is a professor of Chinese language and literature and director of the Confucius Institute of Chinese Opera at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is the author of Confucius's Analects: An Advance Reader of Chinese Language and Culture and Li Bai and Du Fu: An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Literature. Hong Zhang is a senior lecturer of Chinese at Binghamton University. She is coauthor of Chinese through Song.

This unique book is ideal for courses in advanced Chinese and Chinese culture. Third- and Fourth-year students and instructors will find themselves deeply immersed in the very fabric of Chinese culture that governs personal behavior and directs social dynamics. Chinese Language Teachers Association Newsletter

• Preface User's Guide Lesson OneCalligraphy: "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion" and "The Pagoda of Many Treasures"Eighteen Vats of WaterMajor Dynasties Lesson TwoChinese Painting: "Ink Plum Blossoms" and "Ink Bamboo"The Poet and the ThiefFour Treasures of the StudyLesson ThreeTang Poetry: "A Night Mooring at the Maple Bridge" and "An Occasional Poem upon Returning to My Hometown"To Push or to KnockThe Tolling Bell at Hanshan TempleLesson FourChinese Instrumental Music: "The High Mountain and Flowing Water" and "Ambush from All Sides"Butterflies among the FlowersErhu and suonaLesson Five Beijing Opera: "The White Snake" and "The Empty City Stratagem"A Beijing Opera Master in AmericaChinese Local Operas Lesson Six Idioms: "Awaiting the Hare under the Tree" and "Swordplay at the Rooster's Crow"Southbound Carriage, Northbound TracksProverbs and Riddles Lesson SevenHolidays: "Chang'e Flying to the Moon" and "Reunion on the Magpie Bridge" A Drowned PoetChinese New Year Traditions Lesson EightFood and Drink: "Li Bai Gets Drunk" and "Wu Song Beats the Tiger"Banquet at HongmenGongbao Chicken Lesson NineEtiquette: "Standing in the Snow at the Teacher's Door" and "Thrice Visiting the Thatched House" A General's ApologyThe Four Books and Five Classics AppendixEnglish Translations of the Texts IndexesVocabulary IndexProper Names Index

Zu-yan Chen is a professor of Chinese language and literature and director of the Confucius Institute of Chinese Opera at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is the author of Confucius's Analects: An Advance Reader of Chinese Language and Culture and Li Bai and Du Fu: An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Literature. Hong Zhang is a senior lecturer of Chinese at Binghamton University. She is coauthor of Chinese through Song.

This unique book is ideal for courses in advanced Chinese and Chinese culture. Third- and Fourth-year students and instructors will find themselves deeply immersed in the very fabric of Chinese culture that governs personal behavior and directs social dynamics. Chinese Language Teachers Association Newsletter

• Preface User's Guide Lesson OneCalligraphy: "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion" and "The Pagoda of Many Treasures"Eighteen Vats of WaterMajor Dynasties Lesson TwoChinese Painting: "Ink Plum Blossoms" and "Ink Bamboo"The Poet and the ThiefFour Treasures of the StudyLesson ThreeTang Poetry: "A Night Mooring at the Maple Bridge" and "An Occasional Poem upon Returning to My Hometown"To Push or to KnockThe Tolling Bell at Hanshan TempleLesson FourChinese Instrumental Music: "The High Mountain and Flowing Water" and "Ambush from All Sides"Butterflies among the FlowersErhu and suonaLesson Five Beijing Opera: "The White Snake" and "The Empty City Stratagem"A Beijing Opera Master in AmericaChinese Local Operas Lesson Six Idioms: "Awaiting the Hare under the Tree" and "Swordplay at the Rooster's Crow"Southbound Carriage, Northbound TracksProverbs and Riddles Lesson SevenHolidays: "Chang'e Flying to the Moon" and "Reunion on the Magpie Bridge" A Drowned PoetChinese New Year Traditions Lesson EightFood and Drink: "Li Bai Gets Drunk" and "Wu Song Beats the Tiger"Banquet at HongmenGongbao Chicken Lesson NineEtiquette: "Standing in the Snow at the Teacher's Door" and "Thrice Visiting the Thatched House" A General's ApologyThe Four Books and Five Classics AppendixEnglish Translations of the Texts IndexesVocabulary IndexProper Names Index

Zu-yan Chen is a professor of Chinese language and literature and director of the Confucius Institute of Chinese Opera at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is the author of Confucius's Analects: An Advance Reader of Chinese Language and Culture and Li Bai and Du Fu: An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Literature. Hong Zhang is a senior lecturer of Chinese at Binghamton University. She is coauthor of Chinese through Song.

This unique book is ideal for courses in advanced Chinese and Chinese culture. Third- and Fourth-year students and instructors will find themselves deeply immersed in the very fabric of Chinese culture that governs personal behavior and directs social dynamics. Chinese Language Teachers Association Newsletter

• Preface User's Guide Lesson OneCalligraphy: "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion" and "The Pagoda of Many Treasures"Eighteen Vats of WaterMajor Dynasties Lesson TwoChinese Painting: "Ink Plum Blossoms" and "Ink Bamboo"The Poet and the ThiefFour Treasures of the StudyLesson ThreeTang Poetry: "A Night Mooring at the Maple Bridge" and "An Occasional Poem upon Returning to My Hometown"To Push or to KnockThe Tolling Bell at Hanshan TempleLesson FourChinese Instrumental Music: "The High Mountain and Flowing Water" and "Ambush from All Sides"Butterflies among the FlowersErhu and suonaLesson Five Beijing Opera: "The White Snake" and "The Empty City Stratagem"A Beijing Opera Master in AmericaChinese Local Operas Lesson Six Idioms: "Awaiting the Hare under the Tree" and "Swordplay at the Rooster's Crow"Southbound Carriage, Northbound TracksProverbs and Riddles Lesson SevenHolidays: "Chang'e Flying to the Moon" and "Reunion on the Magpie Bridge" A Drowned PoetChinese New Year Traditions Lesson EightFood and Drink: "Li Bai Gets Drunk" and "Wu Song Beats the Tiger"Banquet at HongmenGongbao Chicken Lesson NineEtiquette: "Standing in the Snow at the Teacher's Door" and "Thrice Visiting the Thatched House" A General's ApologyThe Four Books and Five Classics AppendixEnglish Translations of the Texts IndexesVocabulary IndexProper Names Index