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Provides a comprehensive description of and a theoretically well informed and a scholarly cogent account of teaching and learning Chinese. It examines a wide range of important issues in Chinese teaching and learning.

A volume in the Chinese American Educational Researchand Development Association Book SeriesSeries Editor Jinfa Cai, University of DelawareThe book is linked to the annual theme of the 2008 CAERDA International Conference with contributingauthors serving as keynote speakers, invited panelists, paper presenters, as well as specialists andeducators in the field. The book provides a most comprehensive description of and a theoretically wellinformedand a scholarly cogent account of teaching and learning Chinese in general and in the UnitedStates in particular. It examines a wide range of important issues in Chinese teaching and learning: current state in teaching Chinese as a SecondLanguage (TCSL) in the United States, US national standards for learning foreign languages K-12, policy making about how to meet the growingdemand for Chinese language and cultural education with regard to a national coordination of efforts, professional teacher training in terms of thequantity and quality of Chinese language teachers at all levels, promotion of early language learning, characteristics of Chinese pedagogy, aspects ofChinese linguistics, methods and methodology in teaching TCSL, techniques and technology in Chinese language education, curriculum andinstruction in TCSL, cultural aspects of teaching Chinese as a Second Language, issues in Chinese pedagogy, development of Chinese as a HeritageLanguage (HL) and the issue of cultural identity for bilingual/multilingual learners (particularly bilingual/multilingual children), testing andevaluation in TCSL, Chinese literacy and reading, approaches to instruction and program design, etc.

This book is about an alternative mode of reading, thinking, and representing the intricacies of human experience in Chinese literature of the late twentieth century, which the author calls the aesthetics of the 'beyond.' It investigates how contemporary Chinese writers, by means of dynamic interface of literary practice and cultural philosophical considerations, engage the reader in critical reflection on and aesthetic appreciation of the complexity of human conditions. By studying the 'beyond' in its various manifestations: the semiotics of human embodiment, the discourse of the phantasm, the politics of nostalgia with regard to 'origin' and 'center, ' and the metaphysics of death in the writings of some major contemporary Chinese writers, the book explores the ways in which the 'beyond' is constructed as a new paradigm of critical thinking in literary, aesthetic, and philosophical terms. It examines how its discursive strategies, structural features, and aesthetic possibilities are presented and how varied literary tropes are used in an attempt to unravel human experience in all its aspects