A Trip to China: An Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese - Revised Edition (The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese)

Extremely awful textbook, correctness of using traditional characters is beyond horrible, and content wise is even worse. It is a book that degrades Taiwan and mocking people other than Chinese from China. In this book, they have 2 version for each single lesson, namely, traditional and simplified. HOWEVER, the book use "繁体字" rather than "繁體字" HOW IRONIC, those China authors reflect the fact that they don' even know traditional characters at all, as "体" is a simplified charter and not even considered as a character in the set of all traditional Chinese characters, and yet people are buying this book and use it as a text to learn chinese.There is one lesson talking about the narrator being an American buying fruits or whatever in some market in China, and the narrator(again, whose identity is revealed as an foreigner, either American or European) think the Chinese seller charged him more than he should pay since he suspect that the chinese seller tampered the steelyard. (Note: the narrator actually paid more than what he supposed to paid, his suspiciousness was right.) And the narrator tries to reason with the Chinese seller, but then all the other sellers in the market come all together and condemn the action of the american narrator FOR BEING HAGGLED. And similar stories happen here and there. I wonder how people read those content and still thinking this is a proper textbook for learning. Probably people in college who take chinese are not really Americans who never speaks chinses but obviously from (you know where it is). And there is one lesson talking about Taiwan is a state of China, and saying now people can come from Taiwan to China, indirectly suggesting that coming to China is something to be proud of. This is very wrong. If I am from Taiwan, I won't even want to read this book at all, such an insulting book.