The Chinese Library Series - Myth and Legends: The Chinese new year - the Nian monster, rewritten by Carol Chen and illustrated by Meng Xianlong. This is a pre-intermediate Chinese reading level text which uses up to 900 Chinese phrases. Expanded reading and an index of phrases appear in the appendix. CD-ROM included. The series is published by the prestigious Beijing Language and Culture University Press. In Simplified Chinese/English. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.