Paint Feet on a Snake Simplified character edition

This book 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.

Paint Feet on a Snake

*is available in full-form and simplified character editions

*is aimed at learners of Mandarin with a command of about 850 characters and 1200 vocabulary items

*is suitable for language acquisition programs and for programs combining linguistic and cultural competence

*has been optimized in pilot editions at Leiden University

Lin Chin-hui is lecturer in Mandarin at the University of Göttingen

Maghiel van Crevel is professor of Chinese language and literature at Leiden University