NZ Scholarship Chinese case studies
NZ Scholarship Chinese · Put your knowledge to work in context.
New Zealand Scholarship is an award recognising top secondary school students, administered by NZQA. Students enrolled in a consented New Zealand secondary school can enter - you do not have to be working towards NCEA - and candidates are typically those performing at the highest level in a subject. The NZ Scholarship Chinese case studies are 5 cases and about 3,890 words.
1The Lan Yuan Interpretation Panels: Rendering 借景 Under a Word Cap
The Dunedin City Council is finalising interpretation panels for the Lan Yuan, the Chinese garden built by eighteen artisans from Shanghai, Dunedin's sister city since 1994. You sit on a three-person translation panel.
846 words, about 4 min2The Held Honey Shipment: Warm but Firm in 120 Characters
You are a Year 13 Scholarship Chinese candidate on a week's placement at the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise office in Shanghai. A shipment of 240 pallets of manuka honey is held at Waigaoqiao port because the importer's licence number on the health certificate does not match the number on the customs declaration.
792 words, about 4 min3Reading Irony in a Factory Meeting: The Scholarship Section B Response
You are preparing a Section B response on a prescribed 1980s Chinese short story about a state factory. Your chosen excerpt reads: '会议室的灯又亮到半夜。厂长说，这是为了提高效率。大家点点头，把茶杯里的水喝完，又各自添上。墙上的挂钟走到十二点，厂长还在讲效率。' Your study group disagrees about whether the passage is sincere or ironic.
668 words, about 3 min4Weighing a Memoir Against a 1971 Newspaper for the Cultural Component
Your cultural component asks you to respond to the statement: 'The sent-down youth generation is best understood through personal testimony rather than official documents.' You have two sources. Source A is a 1979 memoir by a former 知青 who spent 1969–1976 on a commune in Yunnan; it describes a failed rice crop and hunger, was published after the Cultural Revolution, and has sold 40,000 copies.
805 words, about 4 min5Three Bins in One A4 Panel: Mapping Shanghai Categories onto Auckland's
You are translating a public notice for Auckland Transport for display in a suburb with a large recent mainland-Chinese population. The English says: 'Please put your rubbish in the correct bin.
779 words, about 4 min