Chinese Course is a series of textbooks for the major course of basic Chinese. It is divided into three books, each with two volumes. Books 1 and 2 are used in the first semester and Book 3 in the second. Characterized by practical language, lively content, abundant exercises and concise grammar, it is an excellent integrated series of textbooks for elementary Chinese learning, The content is taught at three stages: 1. Pronunciation Stage in which students are supposed to master the pronunciation skills and recognize some familiar Chinese characters; 2. Grammar Stage in which students begin to obtain basic conversational abilities through practicing dialogues in the book; 3. Lexical Stage with passages to help students enlarge their vocabulary and develop their competence in expressing with strings of sentences. Grammar, words and sentences are all taught and trained in context. The body of the textbook consists of six parts, namely text, new words, notes, grammar, pronunciation and exercises. The book contains 100 lessons and 3,300 new words in total.