Learning Chinese Characters from Ms. Zhang is a set of textbooks used for an elective course of Chinese characters for foreign students at the beginning level. With the help of pictures, "Reading and Writing Chinese Characters" encourages learners to associate pictographic elements with meanings. Grouping pictophonetic characters by their pictographic elements, the book places special emphasis on writing and analyzing the origin and structure of the characters, aiming at helping learners establish a cognitive construct for Chinese characters. In simplified Chinese characters, Pinyin, and English.