Chinese Textbooks for Scheduled Courses
Course materials are not included in the course fee and can be purchased from the SOAS bookshop bookshop@soas.ac.uk
This information is correct at the time of compiling. SOAS reserves the right to make amendments where necessary. May 2009.
See the range of Chinese language courses and activities at SOAS Language Centre
| Course | Term | Materials | Book/CD | Author | Publisher |
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| Chinese Beginners A | 1 | Chinese in Steps Volume 1 | Book and CDs | | Cypress Books Ltd |
| Chinese Beginners A | 2 | Chinese in Steps Volumes 1 and 2 | Book and CDs | | Cypress Books Ltd |
| Chinese Beginners A | 3 | Chinese in Steps Volume 2 | Book and CDs | | Cypress Books Ltd |
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| Chinese Beginners B | 1 | Chinese in Steps Volume 1 | Book and CDs | | Cypress Books Ltd |
| Chinese Beginners B | 2 | Chinese in Steps Volume 2 | Book and CDs | | Cypress Books Ltd |
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| Chinese Beginners | all | (recommended) Pocket Chinese Dictionary | Book | | Oxford University Press |
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| Lower Intermediate A | 1 | Chinese in Steps Volume 3 | Book and CDs | | Cypress Books Ltd |
| Lower Intermediate A | 2 | Chinese in Steps Volume 3 and 4 | Book and CDs | | Cypress Books Ltd |
| Lower Intermediate A | 3 | Chinese in Steps Volume 4 | Book and CDs | | Cypress Books Ltd |
| Lower Intermediate B | 1 | Chinese in Steps Volume 3 | Book and CDs | | Cypress Books Ltd |
| Lower Intermediate B | 2 | Chinese in Steps Volume 4 | Book and CDs | | Cypress Books Ltd |
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| Lower Intermediate | all | (recommended) Pocket Chinese Dictionary | Book | | Oxford University Press |
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| Upper Intermediate | all | A Trip to China | 2 books (audio material available on-line during your course) | Chih-p'ing Chou | Princeton University Press |
| Course | Term | Materials | Book/CD | Author | Publisher |
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| Advanced | 1 | An Introduction to Chinese Newspapers Reading | | | Supplied by SOAS LC |
| Advanced | 2 | Supplementary materials provided by SOAS | | | Supplied by SOAS LC |
| Advanced | 3 | Supplementary materials provided by SOAS | | | Supplied by SOAS LC |
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| Mandarin for Cantonese Speakers | 1 | A New Course in Mandarin Chinese - Elementary | Book and CD | | San Lian Publications |
| Mandarin for Cantonese Speakers | 2 | A New Course in Mandarin Chinese - Elementary | Book and CD | | San Lian Publications |
| Mandarin for Cantonese Speakers | 3 | A New Course in Mandarin Chinese - Elementary | Book and CD | | San Lian Publications |
| Course | Term | Materials | Book/CD | Author | Publisher |
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| Beginners Cantonese | 1 | SOAS Language Centre materials | Book and CD | | supplied by SOAS LC |
| Beginners Cantonese | 2 | SOAS Language Centre materials | Book | | supplied by SOAS LC |
| Beginners Cantonese | 3 | SOAS Language Centre materials | Book | | supplied by SOAS LC |
| Beginners Cantonese | All | (recommended) English-Cantonese Dictionary | Book | | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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| Business Chinese | 1 | Business Chinese | | | supplied by SOAS LC |
| Business Chinese | 2 | Business Chinese | | | supplied by SOAS LC |
| Business Chinese | 3 | Business Chinese | | | supplied by SOAS LC |
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| Advanced Chinese for Business | All | Advanced Business Chinese I and II | Books | | Cypress Books |
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| Chinese for Lawyers | All | Legal Chinese | | | supplied by SOAS LC |
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| Chinese Calligraphy | All | Gate to Chinese Calligraphy | Book | | Foreign Language Press |
| Chinese Calligraphy | All | Self Study Course in Regular Script | Book | | Sino Lingua Press |
| Course | Term | Materials | Book/CD | Author | Publisher |
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| Beginners Reading Chinese | 1 and 2 | Rapid Literacy in Chinese | Book | Zhang Pengpeng | Sino Lingua Press |
| Beginners Reading Chinese | 3 | SOAS Language Centre materials | | | supplied by SOAS LC |
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| Beginners Spoken Chinese | 1 | Chinese for Everyone (pinyin) | Pinyin book and CD | | supplied by SOAS LC |
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| Survival Chinese (1 wk) | Easter/ Summer | Chinese for Everyone (pinyin) | Pinyin book and CD | | supplied by SOAS LC |
| Survival Chinese (2 wk p/t) | Easter/ Summer | Chinese for Everyone (pinyin) | Pinyin book and CD | | supplied by SOAS LC |
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| Intensive Chinese (Stage I 2 wk) | Easter/ Summer | Chinese in Steps Volume I | Character book and CD | | Cypress Books Ltd |
| Intensive Chinese (Stage II 2 wk) | Easter/ Summer | Chinese in Steps Volume II | Character book and CD | | Cypress Books Ltd |
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| HSK Preparation | | HSK Materials | | | Beijing Language University and Sinolingua |
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| Confucianism and Society Today | | supplementary materials | | | supplied by SOAS Language Centre |
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| Chinese Poetry and its Images | | supplementary materials | | | supplied by SOAS Language Centre |
