The 120,000-word book with nearly one hundred pictures, A Reader on China, is a basic and introductory guide for readers covering China's geography, ethnic minorities, culture, discoveries and inventions, science and technology, philosophy, ethics and morals, economic influence, artistic achievements and customs, and it also objectively introduces brilliant achievements in various fields since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

At present, this book has been translated into 15 languages like English, German and Russian. A Taiwan scholar praised this book after he finished reading it and he said it is the very book that gave us a general picture of China's 5,000-year history and culture. With new discoveries of archaeology unearthed, the book also got revised. Su Shuyang, author of A Reader on China, rewrote the chapter of Great Achievements of the New China in this revised version, updating new statistics of Chinese economic development and adding new archaeological discoveries. This book is filled with abundant historical materials of Chinese cultural development.(Liu Bin)