A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for LoversBy: Xiaolu Guo From one of our most important contemporary Chinese authors: a novel of language and love that tells one young Chinese woman's story of her journey to the Westand her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuangor Z, to tongue tied foreignershas come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and grammatical mishaps. Then she meets an Englishman who changes

you can’t think in new ways if you don’t think in new ways

One of them is CARDINAL—America's highest agent in the Kremlin—and he's about to be terminated by the KGB

He explains why traffic jams form

Buster now finds himself in the position of helping a lost little cat

Marine ecologist Annie Henderson joins her new boyfriend on a trip to the Western Isles of Scotland to protest a hazardous offshore drilling venture

and Latino tradition

and when Lady Teena is abducted by a dragonfly

a Helldiver pilot would write in his action report

Stella is happy as a clam in fourth grade

what is the point of living

舉凡文化、文字、宗教、藝術、服飾、政府制度等，

cheerful artwork from Ingela P Arrhenius