Table of Contents

Table of contents
Preface
User’s guide
Abbreviations of grammatical terms
Lesson 1 Paint feet on a snake
Lesson 2 View flowers from horseback
Lesson 3 Community first, self second
Lesson 4 Three at dawn, four at dusk
Lesson 5 Losing a horse might just be a lucky thing
Lesson 6 The fox that borrows the tiger’s might
Lesson 7 The man from Qi who worried about the sky
Lesson 8 Pretend to play the yu to make up the numbers
Lesson 9 A frog at the bottom of a well
Lesson 10 Self-contradiction
Lesson 11 Amaze the world with a single cry
Lesson 12 Bright kids don’t always make brilliant grown-ups
Vocabulary index
Grammar index

About the Author

Maghiel van Crevel is professor of Chinese language and literature at Leiden University. A specialist of contemporary poetry, he has published a dozen books in English, Dutch, and Chinese, including scholarly monographs and edited volumes, literary translations, and language textbooks. Lin Chin-hui is lecturer in Mandarin at the University of Göttingen.