Why China Simplified?
Foreword by John Pasden
The Sound of Somebody Falling Down
Why Mandarin is the easiest (and Hardest) language in the world
A picture's Worth Ten Thousand Words
The mystical origin of characters and East-West perspectives
Embracing the Ambiguity
Exploring the hazy space between what is said and meant
Sorry, There Is No Chapter Four
Chinese superstitions at play in our daily lives
A lifetime in Four Characters
Using idioms to capture an idea's essence in an instant
Fish, Pearl, Coral, and Ocean Go Swimming
The high-stakes challenge of choosing the right name
Never Use the F-word
How to become more fluent than you ever imagined
We Let the Boss Die First
Stirring up trouble with dialects, topolects, and slips of the tongue
The Lingua Franca of the 22nd Century
Will we all be speaking Chinese in the near future?
Resources
References
Gratitude
About the Authors

《趣简中国话》是一本可读性极强的汉语言概览书。作者将自己二十多年来学习汉语的经验，收集的各种生动有趣的案例，甚至自己闹过的各种笑话都和盘托出，毫无保留地与读者分享。全书共分九章。本书为想要亲近中国语言和文化，但又因之复杂性望而却步的外国读者创造一个绝佳的步入中国之门的机会，既透过文化了解语言，更透过语言领略中国文化的奇妙。