Paint Feet on a Snake (Simplified edition): An Intermediate Mandarin Reader

Book info: Paint Feet on a Snake (Simplified edition): An Intermediate Mandarin Reader (Paperback, 264 pages) – Leiden University Press, 2015. Language: English.

Paint Feet on a Snake is intended for Chinese Studies majors, China-focused students in other fields, heritage learners, and professionals. It will help improve vocabulary and grammar competence, and foster reading strategies and writing and translation skills, for use in academic and professional settings. Available in full-form and simplified character editions Aimed at learners of Mandarin with a command of about 850 characters and 1200 vocabulary items Suitable for language acquisition programs and for programs combining linguistic and cultural competence Optimized in pilot editions at Leiden University

Editorial Reviews About the Author Lin Chin-hui is lecturer in Mandarin at the University of Göttingen.

is professor of Chinese language and literature at Leiden University. A specialist of contemporary poetry, he has published a dozen books in English, Dutch, and Chinese, including scholarly monographs and edited volumes, literary translations, and language textbooks.