Frankly, your "primer" is more of an encyclopedia and would absolutely overwhelm a beginner. Where would they start? For me an ideal primer would be a pyramid s

Frankly, your "primer" is more of an encyclopedia and would absolutely overwhelm a beginner. Where would they start? For me an ideal primer would be a pyramid structure, listing five "start here" concepts, maybe divided into five sub-topics each. The rest of the Chinese menu would be references under those.