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 Target Audience (Age): Primary School, Middle School

In order to solve the difficulties in learning Chinesecharacters for foreigners, especially for beginners in non-Chinese charactercultural circle, and to stimulate the interest of foreigners in learningChinese characters, this book takes the hieroglyphic features of Chinesecharacters as an learning point, fully considers the learners’ Chinese languageproficiency and cognitive characteristics based on extensive research andoverall justification. Taking the Chinese character dimensions of the ChineseProficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education as an outline, it introduces the most commonly used 135 Chinese characters intwelve themes including heaven, earth, time, direction, plants, animals,people, human body, folklore, actions, objects, clothing, food, housing andtransportation. Based on the ideographic feature of Chinese characters, thisbook is equipped with archaic characters and beautiful hand-drawn drawings foreach Chinese character to facilitate learners’ associative memory andunderstanding of the meaning of the characters. At the same time, the book alsoequips each Chinese character with Pinyin, example words, example sentences, expanded high-level vocabulary, andEnglish translation, making it suitable for learners of all levels of Chinese.

About the Author
Wang Chao (Editor-in-Chief) is an associate professorin the School of International Education, Dalian Polytechnic University, who ismainly engaged in Chinese teaching, management of teaching affairs and socialpractice of international students. Professor Wang has presided over a numberof national and provincial scientific research and teaching and researchprojects, and published many academic papers. He has guided Chinese and foreignstudents to participate in the “Chinese Bridge” series of Chinese languagecompetitions, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Programme forCollege Students, the “Challenge Cup” National Extracurricular Academic andTechnological Works Competition for College Students, and the “Creating Youth”Entrepreneurship Competition for College Students, and has won many nationaland provincial awards.

Editorial Review
Pictograms, visualized! Engaging in reading, learning by heart!
This book is a popular Chinese character culture book,aiming to facilitate foreigners with no basic Chinese language knowledge tounderstand the culture of Chinese characters and learn Chinese characters moreintuitively and figuratively through presenting the pictorial features ofChinese characters.

Suggestion
This book can be used as a popular Chinese character and culture book, and a teaching material for international Chinese teachers in Chinese character classes.