Mr. and Mrs. Zhang live with their grown son Guisheng who works at a factory. One day an old friend of Mr. Zhang comes to visit the family after having spent years traveling in the mysterious hills of China's Yunnan Province. He tells the Zhang family of a monkey's paw that has magical powers to grant three wishes to the holder. Against his better judgment, he reluctantly gives the monkey paw to the Zhang family, along with a warning that the wishes come with a great price for trying to change ones fate...
Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-read novels in Chinese that are fun to read and proven to accelerate 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 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 which helps learners to expand their vocabularies and language comprehension abilities. The more they read, the better they will become at reading and grasping the Chinese language.
By:
W W Jacobs Edited by:
John Pasden, Renjun Yang Imprint: Mind Spark Press Country of Publication: United States Edition: Simplified Chinese ed. Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 5mm
Weight: 113g ISBN:9781941875025 ISBN 10: 1941875025 Series:Mandarin Companion Pages: 86 Publication Date:01 March 2015 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
