Teacher's Handbook includes masters for pronunciation charts to be used for transparencies as well as additional quizzes to test students' comprehension. The Teachers Handbook material is not found in the HyperChinese software. By Tan Huay Peng Modern Chinese characters evolved from pictographs and ideographs. In What's in a CHinese Character, Tan Huay Peng illustrates the evolution of over four hundred basic characters. The modern definition, stroke order, and reason behind the definition of each character is provided.
Cartoons help illustrate the definitions.
For beginning students or anyone interested in the history and writing of Chinese characters. T with P for definitions. This course provides third and fourth year students with a rigorous but engaging presentation of modern Chinese based on new instructional theories and methods. Subjects are contemporary and diverse, with topics such as single-parent households, film and theatre personalities, baby adoptions, peasants and private entrepeneurs, China s gymnasts, and the market economy. The textbook provides traditional and simplified characters on facing pages to enable students to recognize both forms.