Volume II of Classical Chinese for Modern Usage has altogether 16 lessons. In addition to texts telling stories about Chinese idioms and fables, there are argumentative essays with the length of about 200 words.
Classical Chinese for Modern Usage is a series of basic classical Chinese textbooks to help foreign students achieve better mastery of modern Chinese. With interesting stories and argumentative essays, and a variety of exercises, it helps to cultivate students’ sense of classical Chinese comprehensively. In each lesson, there are 3 to 4 items of “Classical Chinese for Modern Use” through which the value of classical language is demonstrated; 2 to 4 grammar points to compare the classical and modern Chinese; two Chinese character radicals to help improve students’ skills of reading characters as well as passages; and one short article on Chinese culture or language to lead students into a broad world of learning.