Go! Chinese 1, 2e Student Textbook (Simplified Chinese)

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Wu Yulin is a Go professional, and coach for young players in the National Go Team. He explains how the game is historically another high-brow art-form. There is some similarity between military stratagem and the game of Go. You can understand Go as featuring two sides with equal military strength fighting over a fixed territory. The Go stones represent your manpower and the board is your territory, whereas the players are the field commanders. Success lies in how much territory you occupy. It's a war between equal powers."

Weiqi, known in English as Go or Encirclement Chess, is one of the four most refined skills that an ancient Chinese intellectual could possess. It has a history of well over 4000 years in China and remains popular to this day in China, Japan and South Korea. Culturally, this may be one activity that really is "more than just a game". Learn faster and learn more. The spoken voice can be heard for any and all text and learners no longer need to look up words in the dictionary, eliminating much of the manual work with learning. Student performance improvement has been widely documented As a result, GoChinese is able to support a wide range learners, from those in primary schools to universities and corporations. Du Mu was a famous poet living in the ninth century. He once wrote a poem about playing a farewell game of Go with his friend, where they used jade stones and a catalpa table. Today the most popular stones are the Yunzi, made from pebble stone from Southwestern Yunnan province.The influence of the Go game on Chinese society is quite evident in various works of literature, which often include a scene or two featuring the Go board. One of China's classics, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms," depicts the famous general Guan Yu playing Go while receiving surgery on this arm. Another general Fei Wei was said to deploy his troops using a Go board as his visual layout. Secretary General of the China Go Association, Hua Yigang, explains the reason why this game has predominantly been played by intellectuals. In fact, Scholars have labeled Go as a game of military stratagem. This stress on the scientific and practical aspects of the game has undoubtedly helped raise its social status. Here"s Hua Yigang again to explain more.

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Provides access to curriculum-based learning materials while allowing for, if desired, easy customization of these materials to reflect a particular level, pace or focus As multimedia and learning support are automated in GoEnglish, online language learning materials are easily and cost effectively produced. GoEnglish supports: We offer popular textbooks as well as curriculum-based courses and supplementary resources, all in an online, multimedia and interactive format. Instructor-created course materials can be delivered in GoChinese. Our proprietary learning materials can also be customized to fit any particular curriculum. Many people also love this ancient game for the essence of Chinese philosophy that it contains. For example, Confucianism stresses the rule of Golden Mean, that people should not go to extremes, and not reveal the edges of their personality. Similarly in Go, you must hide your intensions and not fully reveal them until necessary. There's also the traditional Daoist doctrine that if you want to take something from others, you first need to give up something of your own. This is equally applicable to the strategies of Go.