Developing Chinese (3^rd Edition) is a set of systematic Chinese language teaching materials for adults that embodies the teaching concept of “development” and adopts the model of “integrating comprehensive language ability cultivation with specialized language skills training”, which can be divides into three levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and six series (comprehensive, speaking, listening, reading, writing and elementary reading and writing), with a total of 28 volumes.

Developing Chinese (3^rd Edition) Intermediate Reading Course (II) is a reading textbook of the Developing Chinese series, which is applicable for learners who have studied the intermediate Chinese courses such as Developing Chinese (3^rd Edition) Intermediate Comprehensive Course (I) and Developing Chinese (3^rd Edition) Intermediate Reading Course (I), or those who are at or above the intermediate level of Chinese Learning. The textbook has 14 lessons in total, and each lesson consists of two texts, one practical reading and one self-challenge text, with corresponding exercises at the end of each text to help learners understand the text and summarize the language points. The texts are close to life, practical and interesting. The exercises are set up scientifically and reasonably with a variety of question types. The development resources are abundant to cultivate learners’ independent learning ability. Meanwhile, through the training of different reading ways, such as close reading, thorough reading, practical reading and self-challenging reading, learners can complete a number of reading tasks and improve their reading ability and sense of reading acquisition of various corpus materials.

Li Quan, Editor-in-Chief, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Chinese Studies and Cultural Exchange, Renmin University of China. Professor Li is also a member of the National Steering Committee for Postgraduate Education of International Chinese Language Education, vice president of the Beijing Language Association, executive director of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching, and editorial board member of various journals such as Chinese Teaching in the World and Applied Linguistics.

(1) The involved texts are close to life, practical and interesting.

(2) The exercises are set up scientifically and reasonably with a variety of question types.

(3) The development resources are abundant to cultivate learners’ independent learning ability

(4) Through the training of different reading ways, such as close reading, thorough reading, practical reading and self-challenging reading, learners can complete a number of reading tasks and improve their reading ability and sense of reading acquisition of various corpus materials.

The textbook consists of 14 lessons in total, and each lesson is suggested to finish in 2 class hours.