圖書簡介
對于外國朋友來說，是可以輕松了解中國文化的一條捷徑。而其平易流暢的英語，對于希望提高英語水平，增進翻譯能力的大、中學生來說，也不失為一個優秀的讀本。
全球一體化的趨勢，讓中國與其他國家的距離越來越近。而隨著近年來中外交流日益頻繁，越來越多的外國朋友迫切渴望探知這個神秘國度的文化。為此，作者編寫了《中國文化掠影》。
《中國文化掠影》沒有厚重的中國歷史，沒有繁重的文化全景。它只是用隨筆的形式，為讀者在悠長漫長的中國歷史長河中擷取最為精彩、最為耀眼的片斷。
全書語言優美，風格清新，即使在此之前，對中國文化一無所知，也可以很容易地走進中國文化所經歷的五千年，從而從古老的歷史中讀懂今天中國的一點一滴。
目錄
1.Beginnings of Chinese Culture
2.Confucius:The First Private Teacher in Chinese History
3.Lan Zi:The Founder of Taoism
4.The Warring States Period:The Contention of a Hundred
Schools
5.Ancient Historians:Uninterrupted Recording of Chi-nese
History
6.Dong Zhongshu and wang Chong:Two Contra-dictory Great
Philosophers of the Han Dynasties
7.The Coming of Buddhism to China
8.Pure Talk and Mysterious Learning
9.Chan（Zen）Buddhism and Huineng the Sixth Patriarch
10.Tang Poetry and Major Tang Poets
11.Tang Prose and Fiction:The Literary Reform
12.Wang Anshi,Sima Guang and Su shi:Three Great Figures of the
Northern Song Dynasty
13.Zhu Xi:The Synthesizer of the Philosophy of Principle
14.Ci-Poems in Irregular Meter
15.The Four Great Inventions
16.Yuan Drama:One of the Three Peaks in the History of Drama in the
World
17.The Rebuilding of Beijing and Zheng He's Voyages
18.Ming Novels and Its Three Masterpieces
19.The Rise of Southern Drama and Great Ad-vance of Short Fictions
in the Ming Dynasty
20.Ming and Early Qing Thinkers:The Yangming School and Outstanding
Progressive Scholars
21.Early Qing Fiction and Drama
22.Cao Xueqin and Dream of the Red Man-sions
23.Traditional Chinese Painting
24.The Opium War and Changes in Cultural Trends After it
25.Causes of the Long Feudal Period
