Mark Salzman / Iron and Silk 101-108 / Learn English 學英文

**2023 04 08** **___________ Do you want to learn Traditional Chinese / Mandarin?** **V. 2023 04 08** **I was born and raised in Taiwan,** **I operate Traditional Chinese fine,** **since I had a higher than the average Chinese version of SAT back in Taiwan for my college entrance exam, along with similar test results in my grade school days,** **thus I have good confidence to teach Traditional Chinese.** **On 2023 04 07,** **I finished doing Textquitling on [River Town, ](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1e5Comf40Q105ch6l0zO2-mP8fF6otNog?usp=share_link)** **a book that was published in 2000 by [Peter Hessler](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Whh-ucgUniOMzK6ZCOeFpJodAB8drWqO/view?usp=share_link),** **the book went onto New York Times’ Notable Book list,** **that book also was granded an Kirimoto award in 2008.** **At the end of the recommendation about China books that Peter Hessler recommended,** **I surprisingly discovered that he recommended [Iron and Silk](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mDRbL3D_Huze-aZ9tBrwI93RkBxWZ8uA?usp=share_link),** **which was published in 1986,** **which was ALSO a New York Times’ bestseller.** **It happened that I also did read it sometimes in 2005** **Then I realized that there might be some characters such as [Mark Salzman](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xzFpRUZ9yQxN0jfrPkmNTRF9mpUx7a7N/view?usp=share_link) around,** **who are eager to learn Traditional Chinese,** **who will be happy to learn how to write the characters,**…