Cynthia Y. Ning is associate director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, where she has taught courses in Chinese language and film for more than 25 years. She is the former president and executive director of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. John S. Montanaro recently retired as Senior Lecturer in Chinese at Yale University, where he taught for more than 30 years.
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. . [It is] well organised and comprehensive."—Francesca
Sablan, second-year Chinese studies student, University of
Manchester, Times Higher Education
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School
"A powerful and innovative textbook series for students of
Chinese."—Christopher Lupke, Washington State University
"I like the natural context and the different types of exercises in
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of great."—Hanna Lin, West Virginia University
"I love the multimedia approach of Encounters!"—LanHui Zhang Ryder,
Northern Illinois University
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tools. Outstanding."—Bernard Geoxavier, Belmont Hill
School
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