The lost and forgotten languages of Shanghai
earliest edition we have, 2010 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2011 paperback
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 d...
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