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Jing-Jing: Adventures in China
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781959624554
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Published: Oct 5 2025
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This is the story of Sophia Pirrone, a fourteen-year-old girl who was among the first American teenagers to live in China for a year (1982) after the U.S. normalized relations with the People's Republic of China.
Called Jing-Jing by her Chinese schoolmates, she attends middle school where she makes friends and learns Chinese. She lives in a local residence with her father, an American professor teaching at a famous university, and other foreign experts from around the world.
Jing-Jing experiences customs and relishes delicious foods wherever she goes in China. She views gorgeous scenery--climbs mountains, boats through gorges, and rafts on rivers. She visits temples and communes and the cities of Beijing, Hangzhou, and Nanjing and other places for a unique cross-cultural experience. Jing-Jing gains new insights into an ancient culture while she experiences once in a lifetime adventures.
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