外教社新目标大学英语系列教材：中国文化英语教程 Unit 13 PPT课件03 Reading B.pptxVIP

; Pre-reading questions: Have you read The Dream of the Red Chamber? What is your first impression of this novel? (Open) Which plot or which character is unforgettable to you? Can you describe it? (Open);Background Information Yang Xianyi (杨宪益, 1915–2009)?was a Chinese?literary translator, known for rendering many ancient and a few modern Chinese classics into English, including?The Dream of the Red Chamber. Born into a wealthy banking family in?Tianjin, he was sent to?Merton College, Oxford to study?classics?in 1936.?;Background Information There he married?Gladys Tayler. Yang and hi