The Lady in the Painting: A Basic Chinese Reader, Expanded Edition, Traditional Characters

The Lady in the Painting is the only full-length story written in Chinese for low-intermediate level learners of Chinese as a foreign language.

The story is told with vocabulary and structures familiar to students who have completed a basic course in Chinese.

Using an inventory of only about 300 Chinese characters, it serves as an excellent transition between the short reading passages that students encounter in a basic level Chinese course and the longer and more demanding passages in subsequent levels.