This book is in XX and Learn Chinese series. All the books in this series are elective courses for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCFL). The selected 15 popular folk tales and historical stories are well-matched with new words, explanations of language points and cultural background, exercises, key to exercises etc, among which the texts, new words, explanations of language points and introductions to the background all have the corresponding English explanations to help students enlarge their vocabulary and understand Chinese culture in a pleasant way.

This book figures out the number of words appearing in each article and the suggested time for reading it. Some exercises use the question types of HSK. One CD is enclosed to concurrently improve students’ listening and reading comprehension abilities.