01 Nov 2002

Chinese Text Sampler
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Supplied note: "The [...] Sampler provides a selection of 50 carefully chosen, short, well-known Chinese texts for the use of students of the language who want to hone their reading skills while improving their cultural literacy. The goal is to offer a more eclectic and potentially accessible 'sampling' of a wide range of culturally significant texts, both traditional and modern, high-brow and low, than is currently available elsewhere. In addition to Confucius, Du Fu, and Lu Xun, then, the site also introduces Jin Yong, Lao She, Qiu Jin, and Li Qingzhao, as well as well-known folk songs, popular children's stories, and important historical documents. A brief introduction in English is provided for each entry, and each text is available both as an html document for viewing with a web browser and as a GB-coded text file for downloading and reading with other software. In addition, each text is graded according to the difficulty of the vocabulary it contains, so that students (and teachers) can choose reading materials at the appropriate level - dp."
Site contents: Modern Literature; Classical Literature; Popular Culture; History, Ethics, and Politics; Language and Linguistics; Contributor Guidelines; Comments & Suggestions.
[A simple, fast-loading and most elegant site - ed.]
URL http://www.umich.edu/~dporter/sampler/sampler.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: David Porter (dporter@umich.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30