Chinese Breeze
Level 1: 300 Words
Can I Dance with You?
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A smart young man suddenly gets into big trouble. He just fell in love with a pretty girl, but now the police come and want to arrest him. The bank he works for just lost ten million dollars, and the police list him as a suspect. Of course he is not the robber! He even knows who did it. But can he find evidence to prove it to the police? It's all just too much. Also, will he be able to see his girlfriend again?
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67 pages
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597 unique words
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365 unique characters
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7,610 total characters
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I Really Want to Find Her...
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She is really beautiful. Just one look at her photo and three guys, Dai-wei, Jie-fu, and Qiu-tian, are all determined to find her! The photo was given to them by their professor before he died and nobody knows where in China the girl is. How can the guys find her? And what happens when they finally see her?
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65 pages
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558 unique words
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340 unique characters
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8,420 total characters
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Left and Right: The Conjoined Brothers
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Left and Right are two brothers. Even their parents don't know who is older and who is younger, as they are conjoined twins. They must do everything together. They play together, eat together, and sleep together. Most of the time they enjoy their lives and are very happy. When one was sick, the other helped his brother take his medicine and he got better. However, it's no fun anymore when they sit in class together but one brother dislikes the other's subjects...
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69 pages
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606 unique words
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347 unique characters
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9,070 total characters
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Two Children Seeking the Joy Bridge
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Two children, one aged seven and the other eight, run away to the airport to buy "air-tickets". Beyond their wildest dreams, crooks call their parents and demand ransom! And of course, nobody even knows the location of the Joy Bridge that the two children seek to visit. A mystery adventure sure to thrill and delight readers!
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84 pages
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544 unique words
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341 unique characters
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7,290 total characters
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Whom Do You Like More?
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A smart young man suddenly gets into big trouble. He just fell in love with a pretty girl, but now the police come and want to arrest him. The bank he works for just lost ten million dollars, and the police list him as a suspect. Of course he is not the robber! He even knows who did it. But can he find evidence to prove it to the police? It's all just too much. Also, will he be able to see his girlfriend again?
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67 pages
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537 unique words
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317 unique characters
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7,860 total characters
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Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!
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June 8. Beijing. A pretty girl lies dead on the floor of her luxury home. A slip of paper found on her body reads, "I am tired. Let me leave..." At the bottom of the slip is a signature: Lin Shuang-shuang. Shuang-shuang has a twin-sister called Dui-dui. The two girls look so similar that others can hardly tell who's who. Is the one who died really Shuang-shuang? Then where is Dui-dui? If the one who died is Dui-dui as someone claimed, then why is the signature on the slip Lin Shuang-shuang?
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72 pages
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557 unique words
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360 unique characters
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8,740 total characters
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Level 2: 500 Words
After the Accident
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One winter night, a teacher falls from her bicycle in front of a car. The driver rushes her to a nearby hospital, but refuses to answer any questions about the accident or his identity. After leaving some money behind, he disappears into the night, leaving the hospital staff and the teacher to wonder who the mysterious man was.
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73 pages
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817 unique words
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510 unique characters
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9,270 total characters
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An Old Painting
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In the art dealer’s shop, the old gentleman picked up the old painting once again. He looked it up and down, left and right. He held it up, contemplating it for a few minutes. His eyes opened wider and wider. Finally, he turned to Shaxiao, the Little Silly, a rag boy who stood nearby, and said: “Sell this painting to me. I’ll pay a lot of money, enough for your family to live on for a hundred years!”. Surprisingly, Shaxiao replied, “Sir, I’m sorry. I can’t sell it to you…”
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73 pages
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781 unique words
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471 unique characters
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10,140 total characters
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Green Phoenix
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The old house of the Geng family has been uninhabited for years. But recently the doors of the house open and close without anyone going in or out. And at night one can hear people talking and singing inside. One dark evening, Geng Qubing sees light shining from the attic. He slips into the house, and sees a pretty girl sitting with her family. Deeply attracted to the girl, Geng Qubing is determined to find out who she is, where her family is from, and why they live in his old house. What eventually transpires is a real surprise!
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832 unique words
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469 unique characters
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9,120 total characters
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If I Didn't Have You
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Xiaoming is a talented pickpocket, but steals only from the wealthy. He never harms the poor, and doesn't allow other thieves to victimize them either. When college student Xia Yu loses her purse at the train station, Xiaoming retrieves it for her. They begin to fall in love, but everything is thrown into jeopardy when Xiaoming picks the pocket of a man he should not have crossed...
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77 pages
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840 unique words
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492 unique characters
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10,230 total characters
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Mother and Son
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A teenage boy runs away from home, leaving his mother devastated. She never leaves home--never goes out with friends, eats out, or travels. Years pass, and then one day, the son returns to find his mother gone…
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77 pages
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832 unique words
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505 unique characters
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9,770 total characters
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Our Geese Have Gone
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Twenty-five years ago, people in my village did not know that wild geese should be protected from hunting. My grandfather was the best of the hunters, selling the geese in town to pay for my schooling. One day, as he hunted, an eagle attacked the flock of geese, injuring the lead goose. My grandfather drove the eagle off and brought the lead goose home to tend to its wounds. Soon, the goose's mate joined it, and my grandfather, hunter of wild geese, found himself with two new companions...
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72 pages
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791 unique words
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497 unique characters
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8,690 total characters
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Secrets of a computer company
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Fang Xin was the developer of a popular software program, but he did not anticipate that it would soon be stolen and sold at high volumes by pirates. He searched for the pirates for a long time, without success. One day, his wife Xiaoyue overhears a phone conversation in a store that catches her attention, and following the caller, she discovers the pirates' location. Little does she realize that she is on the brink of death...
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74 pages
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801 unique words
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470 unique characters
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10,140 total characters
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Level 3: 750 Words
Friends
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My father for all his wealth, could do nothing about his sickness. I, for all my hard-partying habits, did want to do something big with my life – to take over my father’s massive company. But my father asked me to go to Beijing first. He wanted me to spend some time with Zhang Li, a fellow college student whose father was even richer than mine. He wanted me to learn from Zhang Li and perhaps become more like him. In Beijing, I couldn’t find Zhang Li, and after a while I almost forgot what my father asked me to do. I couldn’t imagine that such unbelievable things had happened to me while I was in Beijing, and my life was completely changed. And in the end my father did pass his company to me.
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88 pages
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1,167 unique words
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673 unique characters
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13,070 total characters
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Moon Sculpture Left Behind
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Chinese Breeze is an innovative Chinese graded reader series which offers over 60 titles of enjoyable stories at eight language levels. It is designed for secondary school and college Chinese language learners from beginner to advanced levels, offering them an opportunity to read for pleasure and simultaneously developing real fluency, building confidence and increasing motivation for Chinese learning. Includes vocabulary in Simplified Chinese, Pinyin and English in the back of the book.
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78 pages
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1,176 unique words
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675 unique characters
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13,390 total characters
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Painted Skin
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A long time ago, Scholar Wang came across a girl while he strolled along a creek near his home. The girl was astonishingly pretty, but looked haggard and despondent. Attracted by such beauty, Wang took her back and hid her in his private study house, and they spent many happy days together. However, one day when Wang came back from outside, he saw something that scared him to death: A dreadful ghost sat down at his desk, put on a piece of painted skin, and turned into his pretty girl…
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88 pages
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1,127 unique words
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620 unique characters
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14,280 total characters
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The Third Eye
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Chinese Breeze is an innovative Chinese graded reader series which offers over 60 titles of enjoyable stories at eight language levels. It is designed for secondary school and college Chinese language learners from beginner to advanced levels, offering them an opportunity to read for pleasure and simultaneously developing real fluency, building confidence and increasing motivation for Chinese learning. Includes vocabulary in Simplified Chinese, Pinyin and English in the back of the book.
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80 pages
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1,164 unique words
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672 unique characters
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12,470 total characters
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Level 4: 1100 Words
Two Red Shirts
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The "Hand-in-Hand" Office of Wanshan County received an odd letter from Beijing. The author said that she would like to sponsor the education of a child in poverty through university. Her requirements: the child had to be a girl, be born on May 4, 1990, and her home be surrounded by camellias in bloom. Furthermore, the office was not allowed to let her or her family know the identity of the benefactor. How strange... Fang Xiaocao, coincidentally, met all of these requirements. In addition to paying for her attendance, the anonymous person sent her a package containing school supplies, as well as a nice red shirt.
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110 pages
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1,567 unique words
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869 unique characters
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17,690 total characters
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Vick the Good Dog
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Vick used to be a very famous military dog. One day, he did nothing wrong, but was heavily wounded by someone with a stick. This incident brought him serious psychological problems, and he could not be qualified as a military dog. Although our Drug-sniffing Dogs Training Center has accepted him, not all of us like him. Only I like Vick, and I believe in him! Vick also deserves it. He practices hard with me. We become the best friends, and Vick becomes the brilliant drug-sniffing dog. However, when I think of those difficulties that I’ve been through with Vick, and my feet bitten by Vick, laugh or cry, I cannot figure it out....
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92 pages
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1,547 unique words
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925 unique characters
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16,360 total characters
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Beauty and Grace
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Chenyu came to Shanghai in pursuit of her dream. She bears the burden of single motherhood at such a young age, and yet her smile never falters. Chunyan came searching for her roots, after growing up in America with adopted parents. I wanted to help them both, so off we went; first in Shanghai, then later to Chenyu’s home in the mountains. It would all be much simpler if I hadn’t fallen in love with them, and they with me. A bit convoluted, perhaps, but interesting stories and worthwhile relationships often are.
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110 pages
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1,315 unique words
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773 unique characters
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16,580 total characters
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The Competitor
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Under the auspices of the Beike Corporation, Fang Xin’s software had met with great success in the Chinese market. It was at this time that his ex-wife Xie Hong returned from the U.S., with an investment and partnership offer from her company in tow. Despite knowing the fame and power of the company behind her, Fang Xin refused. Soon, piece by piece, his life fell apart. First a lawsuit from Xie Hong, then a growing mistrust from his wife Xiaoyue. Fang Xin had little choice but to claw his way out of the slow hell his life had become.
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1,631 unique words
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845 unique characters
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