A thourough and detailed definition of each accupoint with it's therapeutic qualities elucidated.

excellent

These bookmarks are exquisite! They bring beauty to the act of reading, and they make great gifts. They also arrived exactly on time and it's been a pleasure....

Very useful to remember sentences thanks to the catchy tunes on the mp3 companion CD. A good support tool for learning Mandarin Chinese....

I rarely write reviews, but I have to say that this particular series is very well done. The stories are engaging and often humorous, and the subject matter is varied....

I bought the Graded Readers 2 and 3. Previously, I had read a few of the Chinese Breeze readers, but they have not yet published beyond level three and that had become too easy. There is quite a big difference between the two series. Chinese Breeze have the advantage of no pinyin, and their MP3 recordings come with slow and fast readings which is great if you want to read along. Graded Readers have pinyin, but a card to block it out is provided, and the MP3 track is read at a pretty fast pace. The thing that makes the Graded Reader series so good, though, is the fact that you are reading real stories rather than those written for language students. The stories are therefore much more interesting. As you would hope, there is plenty of vocabulary and grammar recycling built into the adaptations. If you want to read Chinese for pleasure, these books are great....

Superb book about a subject little known in England. Interesting for both the general reader and specialist....

The idea of the book is great: each chapter introduces a group of words, and the exercises in that chapter are based mostly on those words, which is ideal for level 5 (there are 2500 words to memorize). The problem with this book is... that there's no cd, and the material you can download from this site or from the publisher's website is not complete, you find only the recordings of the listening exercise, not those of the dialogues and of the list of words, as it is stated in the book description (and until mid-April, you couldn’t find those few files either, even if the book has been released in January).

To make things worse, the customer support from Sinolingua simply doesn’t exist… I have been writing to them many times, and so far I’ve got only one answer (in March, when they apologized and promised that they would publish the files by mid – April). I still don't know if the complete file set will ever be posted......

1) Book arrived in good times (abt 3 weeks).
2) Book qrrived in good condition.
3) Good work Purple Culture!...

I use this text book for HSKK intermediate preparation course. It's a good textbook because there are a lot of short conversations and activities. But for grammar exercise, it's sort of a weak point of this book since it focus mainly on oral speaking. So the teacher has to look other place for grammar exercise....