Unit 1 Education 1
Reading 1 Scenes from the School Turnaround Movement 1
Reading 2 The Road to School Improvement 12
Unit 2 Chinese Culture 20
Reading 1 Social and Intellectual Roots of Constitutionalism 20
Reading 2 The Spirit of the Chinese People 35
Unit 3 Philosophy 47
Reading 1 Prejudices of Philosophers 47
Reading 2 Walking 59
Unit 4 Sociology 68
Reading 1 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 68
Reading 2 Conversation 79
Unit 5 Modern Short Story 86
Reading 1 Signs and Symbols 86
Reading 2 A Woman on a Roof 98
Unit 6 Literary Criticism 110
Reading 1 On the Knocking at the Gate 110
Reading 2 The Chaos of Critical Theories 123
Unit 7 Individual and Society 130
Reading 1 Self Reliance 130
Reading 2 Poems by Emerson 142
Unit 8 Classic Novel 147
Reading 1 Pride and Prejudice 147
Reading 2 Jane Eyre 158
Unit 9 Nature 165
Reading 1 An Island Garden 165
Reading 2 The Aspect of London 176
Unit 10 Science 184
Reading 1 Science and Morality 184
Reading 2 We Choose to Go to the Moon 197
Unit 11 Story 205
Reading 1 The Holiday that Changed Everything 205
Reading 2 Ballad of the Bottom Dollar 213
Unit 12 Linguistics 217
Reading 1 An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics 217
Reading 2 Iconicity 226