Mandarin Chinese Haiku Reader Series is a series of revolutionary haiku readers designed to quickly facilitate a greater understanding of the Chinese language. This first book in the Mandarin Chinese Haiku Reader Series uniquely offers: Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese parallel text to promote recognition of both writing systems. Pinyin and Zhuyin / Bopomofo pronunciation above every Chinese character. Vocabulary lists that immediately follows every poem to save you time from looking up unfamiliar words. An English translation of each poem to be used as a guide. And about 50 poems accompanied by beautiful photographs to provide inspiration and encouragement.