A Study On Chinese Textbooks Of Chinese Diplomats In Modern England

With the continuous development of the discipline of Chinese as a foreignlanguage, it is necessary to build a more comprehensive scientific and reasonablesystem of discipline; therefore, the history before the founding of new China ofteaching Chinese as a foreign language s is imminent. In the history of teachingChinese as a foreign language, the textbook history is an important part that notallows ignoring. In modern China, due to the special national conditions of ourcountry, a lot of foreigners joined in the tide of Chinese learning and research,especially the diplomats in China became a prominent group. Among these, theBritish diplomats Thomas Francis Wade and Herbert Allen Giles are most prominent.From the microcosmic individuals, the paper starting from the Chinese textbooks thatWade and Giles wrote, combined with the social background at that time, explores thecharacteristics of Chinese textbooks. This Paper is divided into five chapters to state:The first chapter: introduction. Mainly introduced of urgency to the study of thehistory and the research status quo of Chinese textbooks in modern China, followedby defining the related concepts of involved in the title, finally points out the sourceof corpus and the research methods.The second chapter: the time background of compiling Chinese textbooks ofBritish diplomats in China. This chapter briefly introduces the modern China’spolitical, economic and cultural status quo, analysis of the social environment at thattime, the necessity of learning Chinese and Chinese textbook. And introduce thegeneral situation of the life and work of Wade and Giles.The third chapter: the analysis of Wade’s Chinese textbooks. Duly this chaptermainly from the Wade’s "Yu Yan zi Er Ji", this paper analyses the characteristics ofcorpus and the nature, and the characteristics of the teaching material, from theperspective of compiling textbooks and teaching in-depth analysis of its phoneticsystem, Chinese characters and vocabulary teaching style, grammar teaching andcultural orientation. Using a large number of examples of the teaching materials tosummarize the characteristics and teaching methods.The fourth chapter: The analysis of Giles’ Chinese textbooks. This chaptermainly analyzes the “Chinese without a Teacher" and "The Hundred best Chinesecharacters" two textbook, including "Chinese without a Teacher" characteristics of phonetic system, vocabulary, grammar and enlightenment to us; The hundred bestChinese characters selection method and the teaching method.The fifth chapter: review and evaluation of Wade and Giles’ Chinese textbooks.This chapter is mainly from the macroscopic angle to look at the Chinese textbookswritten by the two diplomats, from the angle of teaching evaluation, the overallanalysis of the teaching material of teaching factors, characteristics of teachingmaterials and teaching materials for Chinese language elements and the processing ofChinese characters.The sixth chapter: the application of writing principles of Chinese textbooks.These chapters in Chinese textbooks compiled by two diplomats as a benchmark,combined with the current popular teaching material, try to explore the four principlesabout pertinence, practical, funny and scientific. Three main are analyzed about thereflection in this paper.All in all, this article mainly from the modern diplomats in China completed theChinese textbooks written by Wade and Giles, this paper expounds the teachingmaterial writing background, analyzed "YuYan Zi Er Ji","Chinese without a Teacher","the hundred best Chinese characters" of the three representative textbooks writingmentality, the editor’s view of language, as well as the teaching of pronunciation,vocabulary, grammar, culture and other aspects of content. In the paper, the third andfourth chapters are the main body of the teaching material analysis part, discussed theteaching methods and teaching characteristics of the book, chapter five and six arereflections part of the teaching material, made a comprehensive comparison, finallyreturn to the principles of Chinese textbook.In1807a British protestant missionaries (Robert Morrison) after creating themodern westerners in China to learn Chinese language here, a lot of westernmissionaries, diplomats, soldiers and merchants began to constantly into the study,application and research of Chinese, raised a new wave of learning Chinese. In thetide of the westerners to learn Chinese, diplomats played a very special role.Scholastic is different from the European homeland, they had a different perspectiveon Chinese in-depth analysis and research, they pay more attention to what happenedin China that time and won’t spend too much energy to study from the actual religioustheology or philosophy history. They rely on their own practical experience; pay moreattention to the study of the Chinese present situation, greatly promoted the westernsinologists to the deep understanding of the Chinese language. These diplomats therefore become an indispensable force in the world sinology research.As a foreigner, the starting point of their understanding of Chinese language andcompiling textbooks and Chinese differences in this respect to a large extent is theplace that Chinese is hard or easy to overlook, so these textbooks record amounts ofthe corpus of vivid and interesting teaching methods and the interpretation of content,combined with the feature of western languages in western flavors of compiling styleand so on, there are still many places worthy of reference and reference.