Practical Business  Chinese is an introductory  textbook for students and  businessmen with  one- year college Chinese  background. This learning  material is especially  suitable for students as  well as businessmen who  wish to acquire oral  linguistic skills in Chinese  business communication.  For such communication,  it is not unconditionally  necessary that learners  have perfect grammatical  knowledge and accent  free Chinese  pronunciation. More  importantly, learners will  be able to establish  smooth and successful  relationship with the  business partners by  learning not only the  language but also the  culture and etiquette.  Practical Business  Chinese offers along this  line linguistic and cultural  knowledge in conducting  business in Chinese.

Furthermore, the readings in each chapter provide the learners with additional descriptive culture and politeness notes related to the topic in the text.

The sequence of the chapters in this text reflects the daily routine of a group of American businessmen who travel to Beijing, China. The ten chapters are ordered in such a way to meet the needs of learners who will be on business trip to China in the future.

Text

• The entire body of the text is presented in a dialogue format.

• Vocabulary: New vocabularies are presented in character, pinyin and English.

• Comprehension: This part composes of a variety of comprehensive exercises to test students understanding of the text.

Culture and Politeness

Exercises

This is a short text (about 150-200 characters) relating to the main text is given with a list of new vocabularies, a comprehensive exercise and a think-talk-act exercises relating to the reading.

English Versions

The main dialogue in the first part of the text and the descriptive text in Culture are translated in English for those self-learners to better understand the contents of the texts.

The background information is given in Chinese and is intended to The background information is given in Chinese and is intended to provide supplementary readings for students to broaden their knowledge on current Chinese business