Beginning Chinese Reader
By: by John DeFrancis, with the assistance of Teng Chia-yee and Yung Chih-sheng.
Contributors: Yung Teng, Chia-yee.; Yung, Chih-sheng.; Seton Hall University.
Series: Yale Linguistic Series
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 1004
Subjects: Chinese language -- Readers
Other titles: Revised Edition
Description: A complete revision. this new version, in _Pīnyīn_ romanization, is aimed at secondary school and college levels. It is an introduction to spoken Pekingese or standard Mandarin, the most widely used Chinese dialect.

Based on a vocabulary of some 600 items, the lessons include dialogues, pronunciation drills, sentence-building games, and substitution exercises. Two lessons are devoted to instruction in Chinese characters. There is a combined glossary-index, supplementary vocabulary, and a detailed suggested study guide.

John DeFrancis is research professor of Chinese at Seton Hall University.