An Australian Teacher Tells Traditional Chinese Stories/澳洲老师讲中国传统故事

<p>Firstly I would like to thank my students who contributed so much to this book. The task for the classes was to learn and act a play. The idea came to me that the most familiar stories were those they had grown up with. So instead of just reciting a part of some Western play they could recreate their own stories. The outlines of each story were written from memory of those stories they learnt as children by each of the 16 classes and then divided into 18 parts for two students to research and write each section. They had to coordinate their efforts to see that the story lines followed logically and in the process new characters and whole sections of the stories were invented. We worked on the plays during each class and then they were acted once for the mid-semester assessment then revised and acted again for the final exam. During class time they came up with many new ideas to make the plays more interesting. It was a delight to teach them and guide them on this journey. I think they all loved reviving these </p><p>stories they knew so well and which meant so much.I am also very grateful to the team of translators from the TJU Masters in Translation course: Cai Mengdi Chen Jia Guo Yufei Liang Siqi Liu Xiaoqin and Wang Jing and their supervisor Li Zhaohong</p>