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I've been studying Mandarin Chinese for about a decade, and even after many classes, living in Beijing, and countless hours of studying and practicing, the learning process can still be painfully ...

The late, great sinologist Simon Leys once pointed out a peculiar paradox. China is the world’s oldest surviving civilization, and yet very little material of its past remains—far less than in Europe ...