Chinese Cultural Learning Series

sponsored by the

(since 1974)

Director:  Professor Lu-sheng Chong, Ed.D.
5620 University Way NE, #6
Seattle, WA  98105
Telephone:  (206)  524-8466
Fax:  (206)  524-8466

In order to help everyone interested in learning Chinese and about traditional culture, this material is free to use but we reserve the copyright. If you would like to help support the program, donations to the mailing address above will be appreciated.

The Chinese Cultural Learning Series covers:

• Language:  pronunciation, sentence patterns, and conversation.
• Literature:  modern Chinese and classical Chinese.
• Philosophy:  covers the original text, such as Yi Jing (the Book of Changes), Taoist classics (Laozi, Zhuangzi, Liezi), Confucian classics (Kongzi, Mengzi), Buddhist classics (Amitabha Sutra, Heart Sutra, Chan Quotations) and many others.

Each text will be covered from these aspects:

• The Content:  Explains the text selected from and the meaning of the words.
• Author:  Introduces the author's life, work, masterpieces, and position in history.
• Text:  with pinyin romanization, complicated characters, simplified characters, word by word English meaning, reordering translation.
• Appreciation:  explaining the important points of the text, and how to learn from it.

• Photo Page of China
• Your teacher
• The materials
• Chinese Pronunciation
• Chinese Sentence Patterns.
• Learning Chinese through Pictures and Photos
• Classical Chinese Poetry: Wang Yucheng's 'The Song of Official House'
• Classical Chinese Poetry: Wang Wei's 'Bird-Singing Stream'
• An amazing page of links to China/Chinese - Related Web Sites
• A great Chinese Literature and Language site
• A Chinese Multimedia Tutorial
• Chinese Acupuncture

Please note:  This site is very new, so most of its content is still in our heads.  You can influence what comes out by letting us know what types of things you would most like to learn how to say and/or read in Chinese, and what means of learning is most enjoyable for you (lots of graphics? sound files?).  Click here for space to tell us.

You are here: http://www.scn.org/edu/chinese
This site created and maintained by three generations of the Chong family, with assistance from Catherine Carey
Updated 11 Aug. '97.