Karl Gerth, “China: Up Close and Personal” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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What Are Your Experiences With Taking Chinese Language?
I don't speak chinese, but there's clearly a sense that it is very different from from many western men. I had first started out trying to take spanish, but it was too hard, so i dropped it. When i went to graduate school, m at harvard and started taking japanese, half the class was filled with koreans who had a huge advantage. And ye i barely made it out of that class alive. It was the only thing other than an a in graduate school, generally it's a or you fail.
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