# Chinese VI (Regular): Discovering Chinese Cultures and Societies

Postcard depicting San Fransisco's Chinese New Year celebration, circa 1910. (Image courtesy of the California Historical Society, San Francisco.)

### Instructor(s)

Tong Chen

### MIT Course Number

21G.106

### As Taught In

Spring 2003

### Level

Undergraduate

### Translated Versions

繁體字

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Some Description
Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

## Course Features

- Special feature - video
- Assignments: activity (no examples)

## Course Highlights

Prof. Chen asked a number of colleagues and friends in China to submit thoughts on various topics, to which the students responded via the course discussion board. The submissions by Dr. Chen's colleagues and friends are available in the study materials section. In addition, the assignments section includes video and audio materials.

## Course Description

This course is the continuation of 21G.105. It is designed to further help students develop sophisticated conversational, reading and writing skills by combining traditional textbook material with their own explorations of Chinese speaking societies, using the human, literary, and electronic resources available at MIT and in the Boston area. Some special features of Chinese society, its culture, its customs and habits, its history, and the psychology of its people are introduced. The class consists of reading, discussion, composition, network exploration, and conversational practice. The course is conducted in Mandarin.

## Related Content

## Course Sequences

The course is the sixth part of a six-course sequence, continuing from the following:

- 21G.101 Chinese I (Regular)
- 21G.102 Chinese II (Regular)
- 21G.103 Chinese III (Regular)
- 21G.104 Chinese IV (Regular)
- 21G.105 Chinese V (Regular): Chinese Cultures and Society

## Course Collections

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Tong Chen. 21G.106 Chinese VI (Regular): Discovering Chinese Cultures and Societies. Spring 2003. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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