Official Mandarin tutors

These wonderful young men are my official Mandarin teachers. They are members of the Mandarin Club, where teachers can come three times a week to learn Chinese. This day, they took another woman and I to the market. It was a lot of fun and we learned some tips to help us with our weekly shopping. Leonardo, Justin, Frankie and Ronnie.

Our life in Jinshitan

April 13th 2011
I spend such a lot of time describing our travels on travel blogs - it seems like all we do is travel. The Chinese teachers in my office just shake their heads at the amount that we have seen in two years. One of them told me a saying in Chinese which basically means that when you borrow a book, you want to read it quickly; when you own it, you savour it slowly. We are definitely borrowing China ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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