Close the Deal: Advanced Chinese for Creative And Productive Business
Preparing a course in advanced business Chinese?Close the  Deal: Advanced Chinese for Creative and Productive Business,a new book  by the team of Harvard University's Yu Feng, teaches fluency in commercial  Chinese.Close the Dealprovides specialized content, task-oriented  activities, and an energetic corporate feel that enables higher-level  learners to expand their Chinese language skills to the business arena.  This highly relevant book offers a cutting-edge language curriculum that  closely approximates real-world commercial projects and challenges:  Marketing Surveys, Human Resources, Seeking a Business Partner, Mergers and  Acquisitions, Contract Disputes, and more.To explore these subject areas,Close the Dealemploys practical  projects that require both conversational and written skills. Students have  to draw upon all their language and business resources to complete  assignments, which include everything from role plays and routine  correspondence to Internet research and full-scale proposals. Also included  are extensive vocabulary lists, including idiomatic phrases that are a key  component of professional fluency.Close the Dealwill be a  particularly dynamic learning experience in and beyond the classroom,  thanks to companion audio CDs.ButClose the Dealis much more than a language textbook. It  contains essential business cultural information that will allow students'  fluency to make the leap from passable to persuasive. Formal Chinese  language, social etiquette, and many other fine points of language and  culture are addressed in copious notes.Close the Dealis the most recent work spear-headed by Dr. Yu Feng,  lead editor and compiler ofPop Chinese. Dr. Feng, of Harvard  University's Chinese Language Program, has taught advanced Chinese in a  variety of specialized subjects for years, and polishedClose the  Dealwith rigorous testing in his Advanced Business Chinese course. The  result speaks for itself in this innovative, systematic approach to the  acquisition of truly professional business Chinese.