Unit 1 Chinese Culture
The Sign System in Chinese Landscape Paintings
Earliest Chinese Landscape Painting: Spring Excursion
Unit 2 Short Stories
Time Travels
The Time Machine
Unit 3 Cross-cultural Communication
How to Bridge the Culture Gap
Cultural Differences in Listening
Unit 4 History and War
A Story of China, Past and Present
Yangguizi Laile, Kuai Pao A!
Unit 5 Popular Culture
For Some Countries, America’s Popular Culture Is Resistible
English Challenged
Unit 6 Human Foibles
Of Envy
A Chameleon
Unit 7 Adolescent Problems
Are You a Narcissist?
Bullying Goes Hi-tech
Unit 8 Pythagoras and Music
Thoughts from Pythagoras
Pythagoras and Music
Unit 9 Urbanization and Civilization
Mega Cities
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Unit 10 Comedy and Tragedy
William Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Macbeth
Unit 11 National Characters
On Mexican National Character
Truths of a French Village
Unit 12 The Gap Year
Time Out: The Gap Year Abroad
Why Take a Gap Year