Lu Xun Xiao Shuo Ji: Vocabulary: Selected Short Stories of Lu Xun (C and t Language Series) [Paperback]

D.C. Lau (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: The Chinese University Press; Revised edition (January 15, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9622013910
• ISBN-13: 978-9622013919
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,090,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unique resource for the Chinese language learner, October 17, 2002

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This review is from: Lu Xun Xiao Shuo Ji: Vocabulary: Selected Short Stories of Lu Xun (C and t Language Series) (Paperback)

This book had to be the most unique resource for the budding Chinese (Mandarin) language learner. The author, Prof. D. C. Lau of Univ. of London's SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), wrote this book in order to help intermediate students of Chinese to be able to read excerpts of works written by the great Chinese writer, Lu Xun, without having to go through the awkward steps of hunting for definitions in a Chinese-English dictionary (an often choosing the wrong definition from the options offered). This book has excerpts of Lu Xun's short stories in Chinese on one side of a page and the opposing pages have appropriate vocabulary words from the stories with their Pinyin romanization (with tone marks) and the appropriate definitions.

BTW, the simplest way to describe Lu Xun is to say that he is sort of like China's version of Franz Kafka.