Lady in the Painting

Simplified Characters

Ross Claudia, Ross Jocelyn, Fang-Yu Wang Fred

Written in the style of a Chinese folktale, this book presents the story of "The Lady in the Painting" with vocabulary and structures familiar to students who have completed a basic course in Chinese. It uses an inventory of 300 Chinese characters, serving as a smooth transition between the short and long reading passages.

About the Author

Claudia Ross has been teaching Chinese for over 25 years. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Language Teachers Association and has twice served as president of the organization. She has also served many terms on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. She has twice served as director of the CET language programme and she is a long term member of the academic advisory board of the CET language programme. Over the past thirty years she has lived, studied, and conducted research in Beijing and Taipei, and she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Jocelyn Ross minored in Chinese and majored in geology at Hamilton College. She is currently an associate with the Balloch Group, working primarily on geology related projects in China.

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