Published jointly with Oxford University Press in Hong Kong and Hai Feng Publishing Co. Ltd, this invaluable dictionary includes all the vocabulary encountered by general readers in their everyday work and study. It contains thousands of new words and phrases; new meanings of old forms that have found their way into the Chinese vocabulary in the past ten years in politics, economics, law, science, technology, culture, and art; 4,800 single-character entries; 50,000 multiple-character entries with many of the latter followed by derivatives and compounds; alphabetically arranged (according to the Pinyan system) items within each entry; and a Stroke index providing both simplified and orthodox forms of Chinese characters.