Target Audience： Beginner， Elementary， Intermediate， Advanced
Language levels： A1- C2
Subject Zones： Supplementary Reading Materials
Medium：Books（Paperbacks） & eBooks （Available）
Language: Simplified
Annotation Language： English
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
Country of Publication: China-Mainland
Reading China is a progressive, reader-friendly series of reading materials specially designed for non-native Chinese learners. The main features of Reading China are as follows:
- Graded-Reading Materials: Five progressive grades, each in several volumes, which are tailored for different levels of learners.
- Topics of China: An outlook of modern Chinese society is provided from various aspects of clothing, food, shelter and transportation, co-existence of traditional customs and modern life practices, language, culture, and economy, etc.
- Short and Simple Articles: Different forms of short articles written in simple and humorous language are appealing to read.
This series can be used as in-class or after-class reading materials because every book from the series is brief in content and has a small number of exercises. There are altogether five levels in the series, each consisting of several volumes. Please refer to the table below for specific data:
| Level | Length of Texts (words) | Vocabulary | Number of Texts |
| 1 | 100-150 | 500 | 25 |
| 2 | 150-300 | 1000 | 25 |
| 3 | 300-550 | 2000 | 25 |
| 4 | 500-750 | 3500 | 20 |
| 5 | 700-1200 | 5000 | 18 |
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