This new series of textbooks is complied as an update of Mastering Chinese Characters: A Modern Approach (Commercial Press, 2014). Zoom In series includes Elementary Chinese in 60 Hours 1 & 2, Intermediate Chinese in 118 Hours 1 & 2, Advanced Chinese in 337 Hours 1 & 2 with accompanying workbooks. The first 15 lessons are dedicated to character learning while the later lessons include two parts, Part I Combining Characters is about making words or phrases. All characters learned in the first 15 lessons are used to form words and phrases. Part II Compose Sentences is about using words and phrases to form five sentences. A workbook is also designed to help students memorise Chinese characters and word combinations as well as helping to construct sentences with those words.

“突破中文”系列教材是在《汉字图解学习手册》（Mastering Chinese Characters: A Modern Approach, 商务印书馆2014）的基础上运用更新思路编写的。该系列教材共分为六个级别：《60小时突破初级中文（上、下册）》、《118小时突破中级中文（上、下册）》和《337小时突破高级中文（上、下册）》，每个级别含课本和练习册各一册。《60小时突破初级中文（下册）》课本的第一部分（字篇，第一课到第十五课）学习汉字，第二部分（词句篇，第十六课到第三十课）是学习汉字的组构功能，课本里后十五课的内容都是使用第一部分学习的初级汉字去组构词、短语的。