Shuqin Cui is Bowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College.

Ying Gao is Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Virginia.

Hsin-hsin Liang is Professor of Chinese, General Faculty, at the University of Virginia in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

Julian K. Wheatley (Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley) has spent a good deal of his professional life directing language programs, first at Cornell University and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since retiring from MIT, he has been based in New Orleans and has held visiting positions in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Zhuhai/Shenzhen.

Chinese Preface

English Preface

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¿¿¿ (Unit 1) ¿¿¿¿ Love and affection within the family

TOPIC 1 ¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

Daughter:how love and affection restored the harmony between two generations of a family

TOPIC 2 ¿¿¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿

What's Peppa Pig?: rural versus urban, ties between grandparents and grandchildren

¿¿¿ (Unit 2) ¿¿¿¿ Coming of age stories

TOPIC 3 ¿¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿¿

Baby Bao. Chinese parent-child relationships

TOPIC 4¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

Please vote for me: democracy: imagined and performed

¿¿¿ (Unit 3) ¿¿¿¿ Gender politics

TOPIC 5: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿

A long cherished dream: the story of Lin Bao

TOPIC 6:¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

From one child to three: an unpopular promotional video

¿¿¿ (Unit 4) ¿¿¿¿ The lives of ordinary people

TOPIC 7 ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

Long time no see, Wuhan: ten people, ten stories, one city

TOPIC 8¿¿¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

China's van Goghs:a conversation across time and space

¿¿¿ (Unit 5) ¿¿¿¿ Man and nature

TOPIC 9 ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

Nature is speaking: listen carefully to her voice

TOPIC 10 ¿¿¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿ - ¿¿¿¿¿

Kingdom of plastic: mobile trash - a video record

¿¿¿ (Unit 6) ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Diverse perspectives on multiculturalism

TOPIC 11 ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

Africans in Yiwu: stories about Africans in China

TOPIC 12 ¿¿¿¿¿¿ | ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

American factory: cultural conflicts and capitalist schemes

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