《非華語學生中華文化讀本:歷史人物篇》is a Chinese cultural reader for after-class leisure reading. The reader introduces stories of 20 famous historical figures chronologically which enables the non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students to gain a general impression of Chinese history and deepen their understanding of Chinese culture.
Each short story has around 500 words. Apart from the Chinese texts and the in-text illustrations, each story includes an abstract written in English, annotation written in English for Chinese vocabulary, Cantonese phonetic transcription for the whole story, etc., in order to facilitate the NCS students to further research into other references and extend their studies.