{"product_id":"9780300125160","title":"The Lady in the Painting: A Basic Chinese Reader, Expanded Edition, Simplified Characters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lady in the Painting \u003c\/i\u003eis the only full-length story written in Chinese for low-intermediate level learners of Chinese as a foreign language. The story is told with vocabulary and structures familiar to students who have completed a basic course in Chinese. Using an inventory of only about 300 Chinese characters, it serves as an excellent transition between the short reading passages that students encounter in a basic level Chinese course and the longer and more demanding passages in subsequent levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original edition of the story has been widely used for decades as a supplementary reader in Chinese language classes in the United States. This expanded version—which includes an interactive CD-ROM—makes the story more accessible to learners in a number of ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• The book is available in simplified characters as well as traditional characters. (The original was available only in traditional characters.) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• It includes extensive vocabulary lists, structure notes, and exercises for each chapter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• The CD-ROM provides extensive listening practice by way of sentence-length and paragraph-length readings as well as listening comprehension activities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• The CD-ROM also includes a toggle function that enables readers to switch between traditional and simplified characters at any point in the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012231577840,"sku":"9780300125160","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780300125160_p0.jpg?v=1763669659","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300125160","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}