Welcome to
Chinese Biography series. In this book, we will discover the life of Shang Yang (商鞅, 390 BC-338 BC), a prominent statesman, reformer, thinker, strategist, and a legalist. His legalistic reforms (商鞅变法) shaped the model of governance in China since the ancient time until today.
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The
Biography series is dedicated to helping Mandarin Chinese learners improve Chinese
reading skills.
In this series, we will discover lives of some of the most famous people in
Chinese history. Each book will introduce a famous Chinese personality whose contributions were immense to shape China's future. The books in Biography series contain numerous lessons in
Mandarin Chinese. We start with a brief introduction of the book in the
preface (前言), a brief
introduction to the person, and continues to dig his life and relevant issues. Each book contains 6 to 10 chapters made of simple Chinese sentences. For the readers' convenience, a comprehensive list of words (
vocabulary) has been provided at the beginning of each chapter. The
pinyin for the Chinese text is provided after the main text. Further, to enforce a deeper learning, the English interpretation of the Chinese text has been purposely excluded from the books. This would help the readers think deeply about the contents the way native Chinese do. In order to help the students of Mandarin Chinese remember important
characters,
words, long words,
idioms, etc., these entities have been purposely repeated throughout the book, and across the books in the series. Taken together, the books in Biography series will tremendously help readers improve their
Chinese reading skills.
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