Written for beginning students of Chinese, this book is a retelling in simple language of one of the most popular Chinese folk tales, that of the star-crossed lovers known as the Herd Boy and the Weaving Maid. Features that make this book especially useful for students include a glossary of all words used in the text, footnotes explaining unusual vocabulary on each page, and pinyin transcription on the pages opposite the characters. Available in both simplified and traditional character editions, this book uses a limited vocabulary of just under 200 different characters to provide a story with over 2,500 running characters of text.