Designed as an advanced/intermediate level textbook, this will meet the needs of those making the transition from textbook texts to real texts. Presents a much broader range of topics and language than other texts currently available. Useful for all 2nd year students of Chinese language and history.

Introduction, Advice to the student, Background reading, Hud Guang and his time, Dictionaries and reference works, This textbook, The text, The glosses, Uses for this textbook