Graded Readers for Chinese Language Learners [Historical Stories] - Level 3 [Set 20 volumes]

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 1 晋国的故事
本册《晋国的故事》，讲述了春秋时期，晋国由建立，到动乱，直至打败楚国称霸的故事。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 2 秦国的故事
本册《秦国的故事》，讲述了春秋时期，秦国由建立，到动乱，直至压倒东方六国的故事。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 3 管仲和齐国的故事
本册《管仲和齐国的故事》，讲述了春秋时期，管仲在齐国实行改革，使齐国日益强大的故事。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 4 楚国的故事
本册《楚国的故事》，讲述了春秋时期，楚国从建国，到逐渐强大，打败晋国，称霸诸侯的故事。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 5郑国的故事
本册《郑国的故事》，讲述了春秋时期，郑伯克段于鄢和子产执政的故事。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 6晏子和齐国的故事
本册《晏子和齐国的故事》，讲述了春秋时期，晏子在内政外交上努力振兴齐国的故事。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 7伍子胥和吴国的故事
本册《伍子胥和吴国的故事》，讲述了春秋时期，伍子胥为了报仇，帮助吴王打败楚国的故事。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 8 越国的故事
本册《越国的故事》，讲述了春秋时期，越王勾践卧薪尝胆，最后打败吴国的故事。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 9 孔子的故事
孔子从汉朝以后被历代帝王尊为“圣人”。他虽然出生在一个贫穷的家庭，但是努力自学，成了中国古代最有名的思想家和教育家。 孔子生活在一个社会动乱的时代。他办学校，告诉学生，学习的目的不仅是求得知识，还在于提高人生境界，要使自己成为一个君子。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 10 魏国的故事
春秋后期，晋国被魏、韩、赵三家大臣瓜分。这以后就有了魏国、韩国和赵国。魏国国君魏文侯很贤明，能起用各种人才：他派乐羊灭了中山国；派西门豹治理邺县；起用当时名声很坏的吴起为大将，对抗秦国，开拓西河；起用李悝为丞相，在魏国实行改革。所以魏国越来越强大。魏文侯死后，他的子孙们一代不如一代。他们不重视人才，却常常发动战争，结果魏国越来越衰落。公元前225年，秦国大军攻下了魏国都城大梁，魏国灭亡。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 11 齐国和燕国的故事
《齐国和燕国的故事》，讲述了战国时期齐国从弱到强，再衰落到差点儿被燕国亡国，以及燕国由弱到强，攻打齐国复仇的故事。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 12 孙膑的故事
孙膑和庞涓都是鬼谷子的学生，可是孙膑的才能远在庞涓之上。后来庞涓到了魏国做了大将军，他担心孙膑将来到别国去做将军会威胁到自己，所以把孙膑骗到魏国来砍掉了孙膑的脚。后来孙膑逃到齐国，做了田忌的军师。他帮助田忌两次打败庞涓，最后庞涓兵败自杀。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 13 将相和的故事
和氏璧是一块玉，是无价之宝。赵王得到了和氏璧，秦王很快就知道了，写信给赵王说，要用15座城换和氏璧。赵国人都觉得，秦王只是想得到和氏璧，不会把15座城给赵国。蔺相如拿着和氏璧去秦国，他是怎么使和氏璧完璧归赵的呢？秦王又约赵王在渑池会见，订立和平条约。赵王害怕被劫持。蔺相如又是怎么跟秦王斗争，让赵王安全回国的呢？赵国名将廉颇，立过很多战功，为什么到蔺相如家去负荆请罪呢？

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 14 纸上谈兵的故事
本册《纸上谈兵的故事》，讲述了战国时期赵国名将赵奢之子赵括接替廉颇为赵将，在长平之战中只知道兵书而无实际作战经验而被秦军大败，导致赵军40万人被坑杀的故事。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 15 众志成城的故事
长平之战以后，赵孝成王希望割地求和，说要把六座城给秦国。秦昭襄王答应了。可是后来赵孝成王赖账，不愿意把六座城给秦国了。秦昭襄王大怒，派大军包围邯郸。长平之战中赵国45万将士被杀，现在邯郸城里多数是老人、妇女和孩子。可是邯郸人万众一心，誓死跟秦国人战斗到底。秦军攻城一年多都攻不下，损失惨重。魏国公子信陵君窃符救赵，楚国也派出大军来救赵国。秦军被打得大败，赵国终于得救了。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 16 吕不韦的故事
商人吕不韦，在赵国都城邯郸，看见一个人。这个人叫异人，当时生活穷困，可他是秦国的王孙，在邯郸做人质。吕不韦忽然发现这是一个商机，可以用这个异人来做一笔大买卖。他准备投入全部家产，帮助异人成为秦王。异人的祖父秦昭襄王有20多个儿子。异人的父亲是秦王的第二个儿子，他也有20多个儿子。异人在秦王的这么多子孙中一点儿都不重要，他怎么可能成为秦王呢？

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 17 荆轲刺秦王的故事
战国后期，秦王加快了消灭六国的步子。韩国已经被消灭，秦国大军正在攻打赵国。赵国灭亡以后，就该轮到燕国了。燕国太子丹很着急，打算派人去劫持秦王。他找到了一个叫荆轲勇士，让荆轲带着秦国叛将樊於期的人头和燕国督亢地区的地图，去见秦王。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 18 秦始皇的故事
公元前237年，嬴政亲政，到公元前220年统一了六国，建立起一个中央集权的国家，自称始皇帝。然后，他又统一了文字和度量衡。秦始皇梦想长生不死，派很多方士去找仙药，结果被方士们骗了。方士和儒生们说他的坏话，秦始皇很生气，下令焚书坑儒。秦始皇为修长城，使老百姓家破人亡。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 19 项羽的故事
陈胜、吴广起义后，天下人纷纷响应，起兵反抗秦朝的残暴统治，项梁和项羽也在会稽起义了，他们召集八千名江东子弟渡江北上。后来，项梁战死，楚怀王与各路人马约定先入关者为王，刘邦先入关，推翻了秦朝统治，项羽很生气，差点儿在鸿门宴上杀了刘邦。楚汉战争时，刘邦、项羽争战多年，最后刘邦成功地在垓下围攻项羽，项羽兵败，在乌江自刎。

学汉语分级读物 第3级 历史故事 20 刘邦的故事
刘邦本来只是乡下一个不喜欢劳动、爱酒好色的人。农民起义的时候，他也跟着起义，带着几千人参加了项梁的楚军。后来在张良、陈平的帮助下打进咸阳，灭了秦国。楚汉战争的时候，刘邦又在韩信等大将的辅助下，最终打败了项羽，取得了胜利，统一天下，建立了汉朝。

Included in this set are these volumes:
Historical Stories 1: The Story of Kingdom Jin ISBN: 9787561950258
The Story of Kingdom Jin tells the story of Kingdom Jin in the Spring and Autumn period—from its founding and the turmoil it experienced to its rise as a powerful state after defeating Kingdom Chu.

Historical Stories 2: The Story of Kingdom Qin ISBN: 9787561950265
The Story of Kingdom Qin tells the story of Kingdom Qin in the Spring and Autumn period—from its founding and the turmoil it experienced to its conquering the six states in the east. 

Historical Stories 3: The Story of Guan Zhong and Kingdom Qi ISBN: 9787561950678
The Story of Guan Zhong and Kingdom Qi tells the story of how Guan Zhong in the Spring and Autumn period implemented reform in Kingdom Qi and made it a powerful state. 

Historical Stories 4: The Story of Kingdom Chu ISBN: 9787561950685
The Story of Kingdom Chu tells the story of Kingdom Chu in the Spring and Autumn period—from its founding to how it grew in power, defeated Kingdom Jin, and became a dominating state. 

Historical Stories 5: The Story of Kingdom Zheng ISBN: 9787561950692
The Story of Kingdom Zheng tells the story of how Lord Zhuang of Zheng defeated his younger brother and how statesman Zichan run the state in the Spring and Autumn period.

Historical Stories 6: The Story of Yanzi and Kingdom Qi ISBN: 9787561951323
The Story of Yanzi and Kingdom Qi tells the story of how Yanzi’s domestic and diplomatic efforts helped develop Kingdom Qi during the Spring and Autumn period.

Historical Stories 7: The Story of Wu Zixu and Kingdom Wu ISBN: 9787561951378
The Story of Wu Zixu and Kingdom Wu tells the story of how Wu Zixu, originally a Chu citizen, helped the King of Wu defeat Chu out of revenge.

Historical Stories 8: The Story of Kingdom Yue ISBN: 9787561951385 
The Story of Kingdom Yue tells the story of how Goujian, the King of Yue during the Spring and Autumn period, avenged Kingdom Wu after enduring tremendous hardships such as sleeping on the brushwood and tasting the gall.

Historical Stories 9: The Story of Confucius ISBN 9787561952252 
Confucius was honored as a “sage” by the emperors of all ages starting the Han Dynasty. Although he was born into a poor family, he studied hard on his own and became the most famous thinker and educator in ancient China. Confucius lived in an era of social unrest. He run a school and told students that the purpose of learning is not only to acquire knowledge, but also to improve the realm of life and to make himself a gentleman.

Historical Stories 10: The Story of Kingdom Wei ISBN 9787561953334
During the later years of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Kingdom Jin was divided by the three families Wei, Han and Zhao into three kingdoms. Marquis Wen of Wei was a wise ruler capable of employing talents. He sent Yue Yang to annihilate the Kingdom of Zhongshan and Ximen Bao to govern the County of Ye. He appointed the infamous Wu Qi as the general to fight the Kingdom of Qin and exploit the area around the West River and Li Kui as the prime minister to carry out reform in Wei. Under his rule, the Kingdom of Wei became stronger and stronger. After Marquis Wen of Wei died, his sons and grandsons were nothing compared to him. They made little of talented people and kept starting wars. The Kingdom of Wei declined in strength. When the Qin army took control of Daliang, capital of Wei, in 225 B.C., Wei fell.

Historical Stories 11: The Story of Kingdom Qi and Kingdom Yan ISBN 9787561952702
The Story of Kingdom Qi and Kingdom Yan tells the story of how Kingdom Qi and Kingdom Yan in the Warring States Period rose and fell and how Kingdom Yan avenged itself on Kingdom Qi.

Historical Stories 12: The Story of Sun Bin ISBN 9787561954508
Sun Bin and Pang Juan were both apprentices of Guiguzi, but Sun was far more talented than Pang. When Pang became a general of the State of Wei, he was afraid that Sun would serve another state as a general, which would be a threat to himself, so he lured Sun to Wei and had Sun’s feet chopped off. Later Sun fled to the State of Qi and became the military counselor for Tian Ji. With Sun’s help, Tian won two victories over Pang, which led to Pang’s suicide.

Historical Stories 13: The Story of Jiang xiang he ISBN 9787561954782
He Shi Bi is a piece of jade, a priceless treasure. King Zhao got He Shi Bi, and King Qin knew it soon. He wrote to King Zhao and said that he would exchange 15 cities for the jade. People in the Zhao country felt that King Qin just wanted to get He Shi Bi and would not give the cities to Zhao.

Historical Stories 14: The Story of an Armchair Strategist ISBN 9787561953235
The Story of an Armchair Strategist tells the story of Zhao Kuo, son of the famous general Zhao She of Kingdom Zhao in the Warring States Period, who, as the successor of the great general Lian Po, with only book knowledge and no war experience, was defeated by the Qin army, causing a death toll of 400,000.

Historical Stories 15: The Story of United Efforts ISBN 9787561954812
After the Battle of Changping did end, King Zhao hoped to cede the land and ask for peace, saying that he would give the six cities to the State of Qin. King Qin agreed. But later Zhao became the king and he was unwilling to give the six cities to the State of Qin. King Qin was furious and sent a large army to surround Handan...

Historical Stories 16: The Story of Lü Buwei ISBN 9787561954034
The businessman Lü Buwei met a man called Yiren in Handan, the capital of Zhao. Yiren was a prince of Qin, who was held hostage in Handan and lived a poor life there. Lü Buwei saw an opportunity to make a deal with Yiren. He decided to invest all his money on Yiren to help him become the king of Qin. Yiren’s grandfather, King Zhaoxiang of Qin, had more than 20 sons. Yiren’s father also had over 20 sons, and Yiren was the second. The chances seemed very good for Yiren, who didn’t matter at all among all these sons and grandsons, to become the king of Qin. Could Lü Buwei succeed in making Yiren the king and what did he get for himself?

Historical Stories 17: The Story of Jing Ke’s Assassination Attempt on the King of Qin ISBN 9787561954041
In the later years of the Warring States Period, the King of Qin quickened his pace of annihilating the other six states. Now that the State of Han had already been destroyed, Qin was now attacking Zhao, and Yan would be its next target. Prince Dan of Yan was so worried he decided to send someone to kidnap the King of Qin. Dan found a warrior called Jing Ke and asked him to meet the King of Qin bringing the head of Fan Yuqi, a traitor of Qin, and the map of an area of Yan.

Historical Stories 18: The Story of the First Emperor Qin Shihuang ISBN 9787561954508
Ying Zheng came to the throne of the state Qin in 237 B.C. In 220 B.C., he conquered the other six states and built a unified, centralized country, proclaiming himself the First Emperor (Shihuang). After that, under his order, the written characters and units of measurements were standardized. Qin Shihuang dreamt to be immortal, so he sent a lot of necromancers to look for magical elixirs for him, who turned out to be cheaters. The necromancers and scholars spoke ill of him, making him so angry that he ordered to burn the books and bury the scholars alive. He also gave the order to build the Great Wall, resulting in numerous deaths of civilians.

Historical Stories 19: The Story of Xiang Yu ISBN 9787561955086
Following the Chen Sheng – Wu Guang Uprising, people all over the country rose against the cruel ruling of the Qin regime, among whom are Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu in Kuaiji. The two of them gathered about 8,000 rebels and crossed the river to the north. After Xiang Liang died in a battle, King Huai of Chu and the other troops made a vow that he who first entered the pass of Qin would be king. Liu Bang entered the pass first and overthrew the reign of Qin, which pissed Xiang Yu off so much so that he almost killed Liu Bang at the Hongmen banquet. A war broke out between Chu (led by Xiang Yu) and Han (led by Liu Bang), which ended in Liu Bang’s victory over Xiang Yu, who committed suicide by the side of Wujiang River.

Historical Stories 20: The Story of Liu Bang ISBN 9787561954508
Liu Bang used to be a lazy countryman fond of alcohol and women. When the peasant uprising broke out, he followed the call and took several thousand people to join the Chu army led by Xiang Liang. Later, with the help of Zhang Liang and Chen Ping, he entered Xianyang and overturned Qin. During the Chu-Han War, Liu Bang, with Han Xin and other generals assisting him, defeated Xiang Yu and founded the Han dynasty.