Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language

When I was a Chinese language student, I sat in an old classroom where the "ping....ting" noises from the rickety radiator made listening class vexing because I couldn’t tell the machine's emissions from the teacher’s. It is an admittedly extreme example of the obstacles that – equally truly -- most Westerners face with Chinese. Among them is Deborah Fa…