Books Every Chinese Child Reads In Elementary School?

[makochan]

I've tried to search for threads on this topic but didn't quite find what I was looking for.

 

I'm assuming that every Chinese students has to read standard textbooks in elementary school.  (Maybe something like this: http://www.pep.com.cn/xiaoyu/jiaoshi/tbjx/kbjiaocai/）

 

I've read most of the Chinese Breeze readers, and I recently finished Charlotte's Web in Chinese.  But what I'm really looking for is a list of top 50, top 100 books that every child reads during elementary school or middle school.  For example, maybe every child in the U.S. reads "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Chronicles of Narnia", etc.

 

I could read more translated books, but I felt that reading popular Chinese children's books could help me not only improve my reading, but also expose myself more to Chinese culture and thinking.

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SiMaKe]

So you are looking for popular literature as opposed to literature in the school curriculum? I may have the latter if you are interested.

[Basil]

I would be quite interested in this as well.

 

The fifty or so books that almost every chinese kid reads...

 

I somehow feel that most of them don't choose to read anything not in the textbook though...

[SiMaKe]

Basil,

 

Below is purportedly a list of readings for Chinese middle and high school students. It is not authoritative as it came from a friend of a friend. But hopefully you will find something useful here.

 

《背影》

《我的母亲》

《我的老师》

《鼎湖山听泉》

《枣核》

《藤野先生》

《阿里山纪行》

《美丽的西双版纳》

《蓝蓝的威尼斯》

《散步》

《白杨礼赞》

《紫藤萝瀑布》

《敬业与乐业》

《人的高贵在于灵魂》

<荷塘月色> (朱自清)、

<我的空中楼阁>、

<我与地坛> (史铁生)、

<花未眠> (川端康仁)、

<故都的秋> (郁达夫)、

<纪念刘和珍君> (鲁迅)、

<道士塔> (余秋雨)、

<泪珠与珍珠> (琦君)、

<灯下漫笔> (鲁迅)、

<清塘荷韵> (季羡林)、

<垂钓>(余秋雨)、

<在海边>(斯妤)、

<温州的踪迹>(朱自清)、

<书房的窗子> ( 杨振声)

[Basil]

Thanks a lot, SiMaKe.

[roddy]

I suspect that's a list of texts appearing (perhaps in extract form) in the textbooks, rather than a list of complete books they're meant to read. While poking around I did find "self-reading" books, 自读课本, which have full stories online. 

[makochan]

Thanks for the recommendations SiMaKe, roddy.

 

Yes, I'm looking for a list of not necessarily required reading, but a list of novels / stories that would be considered children's classics.  I would love to attempt to read something like 西游记, but thought maybe I should start with something easier.

[roddy]

Maybe jump on Amazon.cn and drill down through the categories - here's books for 11-14, Chinese authors, novels, 5-star rating, with online samples. Although that looks like it's what's popular, rather than what's good...

[ZoxGuo]

Eh, makochan, there's a lot of versions of 西游记 which had been changed so that it can be understand by Chinese children, maybe that would be useful?

I have one version of them, without any poems or anicent Chinese stuff, just simple Chinese:

 

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1sjQ7srb

password: neeg

After enter the password, click 下载.

[makochan]

Thanks ZoxGuo, I didn't realize that there was a simple version for kids.  I will try reading this.

[ZoxGuo]

Eh you're welcome, I‘m collect offical Chinese books of elementary school and middle school, I will put it on the forms, eh, maybe tomorrow...? I’m not sure, but when I do I will let you know.

[Basil]

Q: What's the Chinese equivalent of Harry Potter

A: 哈利波特