Give the gift of learning Chinese for this holiday season

It’s here!

Time to give the gift of inspiration and lifelong learning.

We will start with my new e-courses that offer timely wisdom during this chaotic period. The best part is that these e-courses are open for barter!

(1) Prepare yourself with ancient yet timeless wisdom

This year has felt like the world turned itself inside out. Old certainties crumbled overnight. Institutions we once trusted staggered. Screens flood us with fear, outrage, and contradiction until many of us feel permanently unsteady.

In the middle of this vertigo, one question keeps rising: how do we stay calm and clear-headed when everything outside is in free fall? Therapy helps, exercise helps, friendships help—but sometimes we need something deeper, something that has already survived centuries of war, plague, dynasty collapse, and revolution. That something is the operating manual for the human spirit written by the ancient Chinese sages.

This year, I have drawn from these texts and translated their insights into short, practical e-courses that anyone can finish in an evening yet return to for a lifetime. The Analects and the Book of Changes can be great advisors to us just as to earlier generations. They are not museum pieces, but as survival tools.

The result is a series of micro-courses that feel almost unfair in their simplicity. For instance, one e-course distils Confucius’ method for keeping your emotional centre. And another walks you through an I Ching technique that turns paralysing uncertainty into actionable clarity. These are not academic lectures; they are field manuals.

These e-courses are meant to quiet the inner noise, help make better decisions, and stop reacting to every fresh headline. The bottom line is, to help you sleep better at night.

As I want as many people as possible to have this armour before the next wave hits, I priced each course at only HKD 29.9. If money is tight right now, I also accept barter.

We are not powerless in this storm. The ancients already mapped the patterns of chaos. Confucius and the I Ching are not relics; they are the ultimate contingency plan. Let them become your secret advisors for whatever comes next.

Check out the details here: https://www.mslmaster.com/index.php?view=article&id=249:msl-master-e-courses&catid=11 

The world will still be messy tomorrow, but you won’t be.

(2) Get a special 10% discount

From now until midnight on December 20th, 2025, Hong Kong time, you can snag a 10% discount on every item in our Chinese textbooks catalogue—no codes, no minimums, just straightforward savings. 

That is, if you are not asking us to ship to the US. Due to tariff restrictions, we are not able to ship to the US at the moment.

For Chinese language learners whom we can reach trough regular mail, this is your chance to stock up on practical resources designed for real learners, from total beginners building foundational skills to those ready to dive deeper into long articles written in Chinese. 

Head to the catalogue and you'll find standout options like the Complete Beginner’s Chinese Reading and Writing Course Kit for just HKD 1,898 (down from HKD 2,109), packed with six core books, printable worksheets, a smart learning pen, and over 100 video lessons to make character mastery fun and interactive. Dive into the Mandarin Express series for pinyin-based progression: Intro Level A packages drop to HKD 1,089 (from HKD 1,210), including student books, workbooks, and audio downloads for immersive listening practice. For lighter reading, Easy-to-Read Chinese Short Stories (Books 1-4) are now HKD 179 each, perfect for building fluency. Even add-ons like printable character posters are slashed to HKD 8.55. 

It's all waiting here: https://www.mslmaster.com/index.php/chinese-textbooks/chinese-textbook-price-list  . 

Make 2026 a great year ahead!