Language Through Literature: An Advancedof Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories isspecially designed for North American students at theintermediate high and advanced levels. It includestwelve short-short stories which have been published inthe past ten years. Each short-short story hasapproximately 1,200 to 1,800 characters. The stories fallunder six thematic units: jobs, interests, marriage, thecountryside, friends, and education. Each unit has twolessons. Each lesson contains a short-short story, avocabulary list, a section with important expressions andgrammatical structures, and a group of exercises.