SOAS – Modern Chinese – Required reading [list compiled from several courses]

Colloquial Chinese P C T’ung and D E Pollard (Routledge 1982)

Zheng Rui. Hanyu yuedu sucheng (jichu pian) (Speedy Reading Course for Chinese (elementary level)). Beijing: Beijing Languages and Cultures University Press, 2006.

Essential Readings:

• Hu Yushu 胡裕树(ed.): Xiandai Hanyu 现代汉语(Modern Chinese). Shanghai: Shanghai Jiaoyu Chubanshe, (1995) 2001

Additional Readings:

• Bradford, Richard: Stylistics. London: Routledge, 1997
• Edward, Gunn: Rewriting Chinese – Style and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Chinese
• Prose. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991
• Freeman, Donald C. (ed.): Linguistics and Literary Style. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1970
• Haynes, John: Introducing Stylistics. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989
• Hockx, Michel: The Question of Style – Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911–1937. Leiden: Brill, 2003
• Turner, G.W.: Stylistics. Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd.
• Wu Jicai 吴积才 & Cheng Jiashu 程家枢（ed.）: Xiandai Hanyu 现代汉语. Yunnan: Renmin Chubanshe, 1981
• Hsia, C.T.: A History of Modern Chinese Fiction. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961
• Zhongguo Xiuci Xuehui 中国修辞学会 (ed.): Xiucixue Lunwenji 修辞学论文集. Fuzhou: Fujian Renmin Chubanshe, 1983