Interesting Texts for Advanced Learners

[songlei]

hi everyone,

i'm relatively new here, been browsing the forum for a while now though and i am impressed by all the great and informative posts everyone has been making.

what i miss though, but perhaps i haven't been looking in the right places, is a central topic in which everyone can post links to articles (news, short stories, blogs, etc.) on the internet that are worth reading. this way, we won't have to post separate topics for each article or source, but we can conveniently post and find them here.

let me kick things off with a taiwanese writer (wang wenhua / tom wang) who keeps a website that contains all his articles of the past years. most of the stuff is about everyday life, mostly women. it's well written and every article has got quite a memorable angle and message, so it's relatively easy to follow.

this is the main page:

http://www.readingtimes.com.tw/TimesHtml/authors/tomwang/works/index.htm

and i can particularly recommend this story:

http://www.readingtimes.com.tw/TimesHtml/authors/tomwang/works/down.htm

and to make things more perfect than they already were, here you can find tens of links to 15 minute radio shows which the author hosts in which he answers questions submitted by e-mail:

http://www.readingtimes.com.tw/TimesHtml/authors/tomwang/author/bbs.htm

they're all taiwanese people, so the girls are really dia, but hey, it's all mandarin and these people are quite funny.

enjoy and keep posting your recommendations!

Edited July 21, 2009 at 09:55 PM by songlei
three quite's in one sentence kind of spoils the whole thing

[fluxs]

Thanks Songlei,

:Dthe page looks pretty good - I just read one story "No. 1：有空小姐" and found it quite entertaining while not super difficult to read.