Qilu Culture is an international Chinese language education textbook for Chinese learners at home and abroad, which combines the characteristics of the new era and regional culture. The textbook is written in a “language and culture integration” way, carefully arranging the language points and skillfully integrating different aspects of Qilu culture. The book is divided into eight topics, including Hello Shandong, Natural Scenery, Cultural Saints, Memories of Old Cities, Food Culture, Folk Art and Brand Specialities, etc. The content is rather storytelling and fun, helping learners to learn the language while gaining an in-depth understanding of the contemporary Chinese culture and regional culture, and enhancing their understanding of China’s national conditions and society.

Zhao Yue (Editor-in-Chief) has a Ph.D in literature and is a lecturer and master supervisor, whose main research mainly focuses on language and cultural communication, theory and practice of international Chinese language education, curriculum and pedagogy, etc.

This book is a special regional culture textbook for intermediate and advanced Chinese learners, which helps to improve learners’ language communication ability, cross-cultural communication ability and adaptability, enhance learners’ understanding of China’s national conditions, Chinese society, Chinese culture, and special regional culture of Qilu, cultivate international talents who know and respect China, and build “Chinese language + regional culture” featured curriculum construction and resource construction.

This book has a special “one code for one book” resource platform (accessed by scanning the QR code on the back cover), which provides teachers and learners with multi-modal teaching resources, such as audio and video, to help students perceive China and understand Qilu culture.

This book is suitable for Chinese learners who are at an intermediate level of Chinese and master basic Chinese grammar and 2,500 commonly used words.

· 16 lessons in total which is recommended to finish every lesson for 2-4 class hours