Learn Chinese from Modern Writers: An Interactive Multimedia Language Program

This cutting-edge interactive program teaches intermediate and advanced Chinese language skills through exposure to Chinese literature and culture. The CD introduces students to five leading modern Chinese writers -- Ba Jin, Mao Dun, Ding Ling, Cao Yu, and Ai Qing -- through video interview footage. The companion workbook, sold separately, is a guide to the CD that provides additional writing practice for each activity, along with Chinese-Pinyin-English vocabulary lists and glossary, and transcripts of CD text in both English and Chinese.

System Requirements: Pentium-based PC or compatible; Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP; Quick Time 3.0 or higher; 32 MB RAM; 640 x 480 256 color-display; CD-ROM drive; Sound card and speakers; Microphone; (no need to install a Chinese language system).

Chung-wen Shih is professor emeritus of East Asian languages and literatures at George Washington University. She is the author of A Guide to China's Cosmopolitan Age, as well as two PBS film documentaries, China's Cosmopolitan Age: The Tang and Return from Silence: China's Revolutionary Writers. She lives in Washington, D.C.