Listen to sound clips from recent VOA newscasts while viewing the corresponding Chinese characters, pinyin pronunciations, and vocabulary lists with word definitions. This page includes exercises designed by Professor Mingliang Hu for elementary and intermediate Chinese language learners. If you didn't find what you're looking for on this page, try the CBB Mellon Chinese page. It includes more exercises from other Mellon projects, as well as links to other learning sites. Chinese poems and literature can be read on this gopher site using BIG 5 encoding.
Texts are in English.
Purdue's page on Chinese art, music, language, scenery and taste. The importance of music, chess, calligraphy and painting in Chinese culture. Dragon occupies a very important postion in Chinese mythology. It shows up in arts, literature, poetry, architecture, songs, and many aspects of the Chinese conscience. The origin of Chinese dragons is unknown, but certainly pre-dates the written history.