Description:

By Paul U. Unschuld

444 pages  pages, 255mm x 181mm

Softback

Paradigm Publications , 1994

ISBN: 0-912111-46-1

Basic Information:

This volume teaches the language of contemporary Chinese technical literature. The subject matter is Chinese medicine, making these texts ideal for those who wish to learn Chinese from real-world sources.

All 128 of the texts chosen are excerpted from an introduction to Chinese medicine written by Qin Bowei, one of the founders of modern Chinese medicine and a medical writer known for producing the best contemporary technical expression. The work is thus a superb supplement for students of Chinese, as well as an effective course of study for clinicians or scholars who require only the skills necessary to use Chinese technical periodicals, papers, and texts.

The goal is the acquisition of vocabulary and reading comprehension. Each text is an exercise. Readers transliterate, then translate a passage based on the vocabulary provided with that passage and the preceding  passages.

The techniques of Natural Language Development applied in Learn to Read Chinese follow the methods of learning used by chi8ldren who are born into a mature linguistic environment.  From a child’s perspective he or she is learning to make sense of the complex sentences used by adults.  Children first lean key terms and key statements.  Next they learn to identify modifications of these key terms and statements.  Only in a third and final stage are they able to link key statements and adjunct statements.  In Learn to Read Chinese the same principles guide the student toward mastery of technical Chinese.

This first Volume contains sixteen lesson, each of which includes eight short texts.  All the texts are presented in clear, large-font Chinese characters, in pinyin transcription, in Chinese-English vocabulary, and in English translation.  Companion audio tapes present the native pronunciation of each text.

Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Lesson 1:  The Yinyang Doctrine
• Lesson 2:  The Five Phases Doctrine
• Lesson3:  The Conduits and Network Vessels
• Lesson 4:  Physiology
• Lesson 5:  The External Causes of Illness
• Lesson 6:  The Internal Causes of Illness
• Lesson 8:  The Eifht Principles
• Lesson 9:  The Six Channels
• Lesson 10:  Diagnosis
• Lesson 11:  Palpation
• Lesson 12:  Therapeutic  Principles (I)
• Lesson 13:  Therapeutic Principles (II)
• Lesson 14:  Prescriptions
• Lesson 15:  The Dosage Forms
• Lesson 16:  The Preparation of Drugs

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