Mozi Biography - Mohist School Philosopher & Thinker, Most Famous & Top Influential People in History, Self-Learn Reading Mandarin Chinese, Vocabulary

Welcome to Chinese Biography series. In this book, we will discover the life of Mozi (墨子, 476/480 BC- 390/420 BC), an ancient Chinese thinker (思想家), educator (教育家), scientist (科学家), military strategist (军事家), and founder (创始人) of the Mohist school (墨家学派).  

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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