Does anyone know of a bookstore where i can find good english teaching books? Preferably not just for teaching children as i need them to teach adult students. Thank you!
Does anyone know of a bookstore where i can find good english teaching books? Preferably not just for teaching children as i need them to teach adult students. Thank you!
I found Tsinghua Bookstore to have the widest selection. Online stores such as amazon.cn dangdang.com and taobao.com are also fairly convenient. I know Dang Dang Wang and Amazon have the option to pay on delivery.
Taobao is useful for finding "imported" books. Though obviously not all of it is authorized or of the original quality.
Yep, taobao has lots of 'ripped' books available. Probably the cheapest option for imported books, sometimes very cheap. However, class audio CDs are not always available.
@Ouyang, is it Tsinghua or Xinhua?
This bookstore can be good for student books but often not so good for teacher books.
There are a number of books published by Chinese universities. Notable Shanghai East China Normal, and Beijing Language and Culture Univ. Shanghai publishes it's own books, like 'Let's Talk' series. BJ tends to produce books in colaboration with western pulishers like Oxford Univ Press and Cambridge UP. The books seem to be rehashed early editions of established series of books. They are not up to date and for China market only. These books are also priced for the Chinese market and cost upwards of RMB30, a fraction of the cost of an imported book. Most of these books do not seem to have a teacher edition. One good exception is the Interchange series of books, which has teacher book, teacher resource book, and student study book.
I used to buy books on Amazon and get my daughter to bring them over with her, but now the selection on Kindle is growing rapidly. Although Kindle is not suitable if you want to photocopy. Unless someone knows an easy method.
Amazon USA do deliver to China, but Amazon UK don't; unless this has changed recently.
Buying direct from publishers Websites is an option. I got a set of books from MacMillan in 5 days. I paid an extra 23 GB Pounds for courier delivery. Expensive, relatively (it was a 100 Pound order), but an option.
Another option is Shanghai Book Traders (SBT), this is the Foreign Language Books Store on Fuzhou Lu in Shanghai. They have a good selection of books in stock, usually. They also have a mail order service and website, in Chinese, that looked a pig to navigate; but may be another option.
The pinyin is actually Qinghua. Tsinghua is an older style phonetic spelling before pinyin was made the national standard. I guess they just never changed it like Tsinghua University.
@ Ouyang
And most important of all,Tsingdao from Qingdao.
I cannot find some of the books I want to buy here, I was about to order on Amazon when I saw the price : 200 to 400 kuai !
Are those normal prices for imported books in China ?
And beside the books, do you know a place where I can buy educational games like flash cards, talking dices ?
check taobao
@ Karina17
When you say 200-400 kuai, are you referring to the Chinese Amazon site? I've found Amazon.cn to be quite expensive the few times I looked at it. If possible, you're often better off finding used books on the American Amazon site and paying for the shipping. Or Taobao.
Also, as Ouyang mentioned, the Qing hua bookstore is good, especially the one on 121 St. (yieryi dajie) just down from the gate of Yunnan Normal University which has typically had a larger stock of these books than other bookstores, perhaps due to its proximity to the universities. It seems to be shrinking, however, probably due to the mass exodus of undergrad students to Chenggong a few years back.
Hey, thanx for the answers, I am actually not familiar with Taobao so I don't really go there but I did find wayyy cheaper books there ! I will order it through my roommate (definitely cannot use it myself!)
As for the store you are all talking about, I have been there once, when I just arrived in Kunming, I was with another teacher and I am looking for it since 2 days ! Went up and down Yi er Yi street twice but couldn't find the location T__T
I have seen on the listing section that the actual address is 308 Yi er Yi, so I will go again tomorrow and hopefully find it!
if you want to buy English teaching books in Kunming, you d better go to Qinghua (清华) bookstore. Last time, I saw some English teaching books, hope you can use. or, if you can wait, I think Amazon is a good place to find good books :)