Introducing the Book
1. Target readers: beginners in senior high school or junior high school.
2. Duration: one semester, suitable for the schools with less Chinese learning hours.
3. The texts come in both traditional and simplified Chinese. Pinyin is also included. A glossary is attached at the end of the book.
4. Chinese characters: 768 different Chinese characters are included.
5. Vocabulary: 472 words (meaning units) are included.
6. Sentence patterns: 59 sentence patterns are included.

A. 教材簡介
1. 使用對象：本教材是針對高中與初中年齡層的華語學習者所編寫。
2. 教學時間：可使用一個學期，適於每週中文課時數較少的學校使用。
3. 課文均有繁體字、簡體字及漢語拼音。課本最後附有全冊的生詞表。
4. 漢字量：本教材共有768不同的漢字。
5. 生詞量：本教材共有472個生詞。
6. 句型量：本教材共有59個中文句型。

作者簡介：

Editorial Board編輯委員(VC Chinese Team)：

Dr. Shih-chang Hsin(信世昌)、Dr. Wo-hsin Chu(朱我芯)、

Dr. Dolma Ching-wei Wang(王晴薇)、Dr. Chia-ling Hsieh(謝佳玲)

Editor-in-chief主編：

Shih-chang Hsin (信世昌)

Executive Editors執行編輯：

Huai-xuan Chen(陳懷萱)、Chu-hua Huang(黃琡華)

Consultant編輯顧問：

Dr. Laura Mei-chih Chang-Blust (張美智)

Assisstant編輯助理：

Yun-jen Lee(李芸蓁)﹑Run-ting Chang(張閏婷)﹑ Hsiao-ting Huang (黃筱婷)

Graphics插圖：

Shi-wen Huang (黃詩雯)