Chinese Language & Literature (9868)

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Free Chinese Language & Literature (9868) study notes for Cambridge International A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.

Culture

Health and well-being

Education and future plans

  • Life at school

  • Further and higher education

  • Career and work choices

Community and society

Our responsibility for the planet

Science and technology

  • Scientific and technological innovation

  • Social media

  • Technology

Language and structures

  • Word classes and collocation

  • Complex sentences and connectives

  • Register and style

  • Rhetorical devices and their effect

  • Punctuation and standard character use

  • Common errors and how to correct them

Literary analysis skills

  • Close reading of fiction and prose

  • Reading poetry

  • Reading drama

  • Theme, character and structure

  • Answering passage-based and essay questions

Set texts

  • Yu Guangzhong, Selected Poems (Section A, 2027 and 2028)

  • Hai Zi, Selected Poems (Section A, 2029)

  • Lao She, Dragon Beard Ditch (Section A, 2027)

  • Cao Yu, Thunderstorm (Section A, 2028 and 2029)

  • Ding Ling, three stories from Complete Works (Section A, all series)

  • Lilian Lee, Farewell My Concubine (Section B, all series)

  • Tie Ning, The Red Shirt Without Buttons (Section B, 2027)

  • Feng Jicai, Selected Short and Medium Stories (Section B, 2028 and 2029)

  • Qian Zhongshu, Fortress Besieged (Section B, 2027 and 2028)

  • Ba Jin, Cold Nights (Section B, 2029)

Exam skills

  • Paper 1: reading technique

  • Paper 2: writing technique

  • Paper 3: literature answer technique

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