Developing Writing Skills in Chinese -

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Résumé :
This text has been devised for post-intermediate students who need to write Chinese in the course of their life, work or study. Each unit covers a specific style of writing and is reinforced with a rich selection of model texts. All texts are followed by supporting notes examining the formats, styles, grammar structures or special phrases featured.

Biographie:
Boping Yuan is Reader in Chinese Language and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Churchill College, Cambridge. Kan Qian is Lecturer in Chinese at The Open University, UK.

Sommaire:
Preface 1. Cards 2. Notes and text messages 3.Personal letters and emails 4. Announcements, small ads and others 5.Formal correspondence 6. Narratives 7.Reporting speech 8. Exemplification, reformulation and summary 9. Comparison and contrast, simile and metaphor 10. Procedure, process and development 11. Descriptions of people's physical attributes 12. Descriptions of people's emotional attributes 13. Descriptions of people's disposition and moral attributes 14.Descriptions of people's movements and actions 15. Descriptions of places and the weather 16. Business correspondence 17. Key to some exercises (positioned upside down) Chinese-English Glossary