The lost and forgotten languages of Shanghai = Zai Shanghai shi luo de yu yan / Ruiyan Xu.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 340 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780312586546
  • 031258654X
Other title:
  • Zai Shanghai shi luo de yu yan
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3624.U3 L67 2010
Online resources: Summary: A happy and successful businessman, dining in a Shanghai hotel, is badly injured by a gas explosion in the building. In the aftermath, the formerly bilingual Li Jin is only able to speak the faltering phrases of the English that he spoke as a child growing up in the United States, and is unable to communicate in Chinese with his wife. The family turns to an American neurologist, and she and Li Jing form a bond that does not need a translator to understand.
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A happy and successful businessman, dining in a Shanghai hotel, is badly injured by a gas explosion in the building. In the aftermath, the formerly bilingual Li Jin is only able to speak the faltering phrases of the English that he spoke as a child growing up in the United States, and is unable to communicate in Chinese with his wife. The family turns to an American neurologist, and she and Li Jing form a bond that does not need a translator to understand.

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