Twenty Lectures on Chinese Culture – An Intermediary Chinese Text: An Intermediary Chinese Textbook (Yale Language Series)

The seller was wonderful, this shipped on time and is very good quality. The actual book: usable as a graded reader. It’s older, the characters are not simplified, and I felt it worded things sometimes differently than it might be worded now. That said it was useful, covers a decent amount of ground, and is quite readable. Like a textbook, it has a few pages of definitions of words and terms, then gives you the reading material. The reading material is non fiction and to me reads sometimes a bit like a history book (that’s a positive or negative depending on your taste). It’s useful. I personally prefer books which throw you into the readings, with glossaries afterward (like Mandarin Companion readers, and a lot of books by Sinolingua) but that is mainly just a preference I have. Definitely still a useful book.

This is not exactly what I thought it was. It is not in English. I will be reselling it as I broke the shrink wrap before I realized it was not what I wanted.

It is in traditional Chinese and not simplified as I assumed it would be.

Good, since the version is very old, and the printing order is a antique way.

BE ADVISED: THIS IS NOT IN SIMPLIFIED...The product description should make this very clear but it doesn’t. If you’re looking to learn simplified, don’t waste your money on this one. Too bad I was really excited to get this...