The “Series of Specialized Chinese Textbooks for Foreigners  Studying in China” is intended for foreigners in China who major in Science & Engineering, Western Medicine, Economics & Trade, Chinese Medicine and relevant subjects and whose Chinese proficiency is at the elementary or intermediate level. It aims at training students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills which are essential in their study. 

This is a main course book of “Chinese for Traditional  Chinese  Medicine”.  It  is composed  of  6  chapters,  namely “Fundamental Theories  of Traditional Chinese Medicine”, “Basic Diagnostics in Traditional Chinese Medicine”, “Basic Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicines”, “Basic Knowledge of Acupuncture and Moxibustion”, “Basic Knowledge of Health Preservation in Traditional Chinese Medicine”  and “Comprehensive Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine”, each of which has 5 lessons. All the lessons share the same structure,  including such parts as “Learning objectives”, “Review”, “Warm-up”, “Browse through the text and fill in the blanks”, “Learn and do exercises on the new words”, “Learn and do exercises on the TCM terms/sentence patterns/knowledge”, “Learn the text”, “Retell the text”, “Classroom discussion”, “Extended reading”, “Traditional Chinese medicine in daily life” and “Summary”. Suggestions  regarding  the  duration  of each section and the use of the book are provided at the very beginning of the book. The accompanying CD provides the recordings of all the texts and new words.