The Mysterious Will-o'-the-Wisps on Beimang Mountain (English to Traditional Chinese Comparison): Star-Map Odyssey on the Silk Road (Learn Traditional Chinese Series)

This is an adventurous story for young readers, featuring audio narration and the ability to read along in traditional Chinese. When a high-Tang breeze swept the wild grass of Mangshan north of Luoyang, twelve-year-old Kevin never imagined that a flicker of "ghost-fire" would ignite the grandest journey of his life. Beneath his tousled hair and curious eyes he set out with Jumper, a black cat who scouts ahead, together with Jahir the Persian newcomer, Clara the born trader, and Lira who reads mountains like books. Guided by a mysterious star map they leave Luoyang at the morning bell of White-Horse Temple, pass through the shadowed niches of Longmen Grottoes, start again beneath the Big-Wild-Goose Pagoda in Chang'an, tramp the ancient dust of Xianyang road, plunge into the yellow sands and green oases of the Western Regions, and finally ride back to Chang'an carrying a vow to protect the Silk Road.

Along the way they crack hidden gears, outwit lurking villains, and-through every heart-thumping scrape-unlock wonders of astronomy, geography, physics and more, writing a blazing legend across the Tang-dynasty Silk Road with nothing but boy-and-girl grit and wit. This 100-episode epic is only glimpsed in the volume you hold, yet every page is already crammed with marvels. Follow Kevin, Clara and Jumper from the ghostly green flames of Mangshan, decode scientific riddles, duel with villains, spring ancient traps; every detail is threaded to secrets buried deep inside the Silk Road. This single story is the key to a vast world of adventure-waiting for you to turn it.

This collection of short stories about teenagers, set along the Silk Road during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, is far more than just a reader woven together by 100 exciting tales, it is a tailor-made key to Chinese learning for non-native speakers like you. Each episode of the story is presented in a sentence-by-sentence English-Chinese parallel format (including audios), allowing you to immerse yourself naturally in the bilingual context while following Team Kevin as they solve ancient tomb mechanisms and traverse desert oases.