◇Abridged versions of short stories and novellas written by contemporary Chinese writers, reflecting everyday life of ordinary Chinese people;
◇The vocabulary in this book is limited to about 3000 common Chinese words, which are mainly based on the 2500 Chinese words listed in the Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus Level 5;
◇Commonly used words appear in high frequency to form concise and short sentences with complete structure;
◇Pinyin is added to the complete text as well as English notes or sample sentences for difficult words;
◇"Guide to Reading" and "About the Author" sections in English, and "Questions" in Chinese are provided for each story;
◇Accompanied by original illustrations and CD in MP3 format. A pinyin-invisible card is designed specially for those who do not want to read pinyin;
◇This book is the revised edition of Graded Chinese Reader 2.