This book completes the Written Standard Chinese series. It resumes from the end of Book Three and is designed to bring the student to the 1300 character recognition level, in both traditional and simplified forms. After Book Four, the student will be prepared to start reading Chinese newspapers, periodicals, or literature.

This book continues the Written Standard Chinese series. It resumes from the end of Book Three and is designed to build vocabulary and bring the student past the 1000 character recognition level. Its content focuses on Chinese history and culture, as well as certain aspects of Sino-Western cultural interaction. It uses both traditional and simplified forms, and pinyin romanization.

The STANDARD CHINESE series of elementary and intermediate Chinese language texts, developed at Yale and used at Yale as well as other places for many years, includes a group of texts for spoken Chinses, a separate series for reading and writing, and in addition, a companion series of workbooks. The entire series is supported by audio tape programs available separately. Please write the publisher for a free catalog. The series utilizes Hanyu Pinyin transcription system and includes practice materials in both forms of the Chinese character ('traditional' and simplified).

The STANDARD CHINESE series of elementary and intermediate Chinese language texts has been developed at Yale University by Parker Po-fei Huang and Hugh M. Stimson. These texts employ PINYIN romantization, emphasize natural dialogue, offer full explanations of grammar, introduce a generous, modern adult vocabulary, include both simplified and unsimplified forms of the character, and are equipped with an accompanying audio tape series. The series is "two track," that is, there is a spoken language series and an accompanying written language series. Each volume in the series is also supported by student workbooks and there is a character flash card set also available. The series is presently being used at Yale and at many other college and high school Chinese language programs.

This second book of the Spoken Standard Chinese series completes the presentation of the major grammatical patterns of mdoern Mandarin and introduces an additional 700 words. Book Two uses pinyin romanization. An accompanying audio program is available.

Four masters of the shi form of Chinese poetry, who are generally considered to be giants in the entire history of Chinese literature, are represented in this book: three from the eighth century, and one from the ninth. A few works by other well-known poets are also included. The author provides a general background sketch, instruction to the student, a description of the phonological system and the spelling used, as well as an outline of the grammar of T'ang shi, insofar as it is known.