Read Three Stories by Lu Xun in Chinese

Literal but understandable

In this Chinese bilingual book, we translate words individually and literally except where this would harm understanding. For example:

The usual English phrasing would probably be something like once per month but, even in an unnatural English order, the phrase is still perfectly understandable so we keep it translated very literally.

However, there are just expressions where that's not possible. See this one:

This phrase would be very ambiguous, hence we would not translate it like this and opt for a clearer in-context meaning (in this case: What happened?).

While there is no clear relationship between Chinese and English, both languages have the subject-verb-object word order, thus we have been able to follow the principle literal but understandable surprisingly well.

Comes with optional pinyin!

The default version of this product includes a third line on top of the Chinese characters with Hànyǔ Pīnyīn transcription into the Roman (Latin) script. The pinyin will help learners who are not yet familiar with reading longer Chinese texts. That said, we also have a separate version of the text without the pinyin for people that prefer to read it only in Chinese characters.

Simplified & Traditional

Whether you prefer reading in Simplified or Traditional Chinese, we have you covered! While the original of the stories was available in Simplified Chinese, we converted them into Traditional Chinese and are presenting it as a separate option, available for download upon purchase. You choose!

Free audiobook included

To make our translation even more helpful to learners, we had a native Chinese speaker from Malaysia Eugene Shear Kuang Ng make a recording of the entire text as an audiobook. The audiobook comes as a collection of mp3 audio files, which can be downloaded and played on your device. The audiobook is free for all buyers of the e-book!