A sequel to Beginning Chinese Reader, this text is closely correlated with the author’s Beginning Chinese, Advanced Chinese, and the character versions of these two texts.nbsp; It contains 400 new characters, some 2,500 compounds, and about 200,000 characters of running text.nbsp; All compounds appear in illustrative sentences, in dialogues, and in narrative or expository form.nbsp; Supplementary lessons, summary charts, indexes, and other aids follow the general pattern of those in Beginning Chinese Reader.nbsp; This work was supported by a contract with the U.S. Office of Education. Yale Linguistic Series. Mr. DeFrancis, research professor of Chinese at Seton Hall University, is visiting professor of Chinese at the University of Hawaii.