“First we ate cold dishes,” he read, “such as marinated pig stomach and sea slugs. The last to read was Teacher Zhu, who wrote about attending a banquet dinner in Beijing years before. Salzman recounts how, during one lesson, he asked the students to read aloud their essays on the topic of “My Happiest Moment.” The class consisted of middle-aged teachers brushing up on English. He travelled to Changsha and taught English at the Hunan Medical College. It’s a memoir by Mark Salzman, a wushu enthusiast who was among the first wave of Americans accepted into China in the early nineteen-eighties. ![]() This is how I come across “Iron & Silk,” recommended by a librarian as an adult book that’s easy to read. “If you can’t think up the image on your own, then that’s a failure of imagination.” “Just the words themselves should be enough,” she says. ![]() Though I gravitate toward picture books, my mother pushes me to start reading more advanced chapter books. With my mother’s guidance, I check out ten, fifteen books every weekend. In my first years in the U.S., my parents take me to the library to encourage my learning of English.
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