Character Text for Beginning Chinese

This character version of Beginning Chinese has been prepared for use by both students and teachers. It can function as the starting point in the study of Chinese, as an introduction to characters after the same material has been mastered in transcript form, or as a supplement to Beginning Chinese Reader. (The latter, now in preparation, is designed specifically as a reader and hence is based on quite different principles.)DeFrancis, John is the author of 'Character Text for Beginning Chinese', published 1976 under ISBN 9780300020595 and ISBN 0300020597.