Mandarin Companion: New graded readers for a new generation of Chinese learners. Now you can read book in Chinese that are fun and accelerate your language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.

Level 1 is written using approximately 300 unique Chinese characters and intended for Chinese learners at an upper-elementary level. Most learners will be able to approach this book after one to two years of formal study, depending on the learner and program. This series is designed to combine simplicity of characters with an easy-to-understand storyline that helps beginners grow their vocabulary and language comprehension abilities.

Plot Summary

“In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king” Chen Fangyuan repeats to himself after he finds himself trapped in a valley with a people whose sight has been eliminated generations ago by a disease and no longer have a concept of vision. He quickly finds the people have developed their other senses to compensate for a lack of sight. His insistence that he can see causes the entire community to believe he is crazy. With no way out, Chen Fangyuan begins to accept his fate until one day the village doctors believe they now understand the cause of his insanity… those useless round objects in his eye sockets.

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