Published July 1, 2011 by Bloomsbury UK.
Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
by Ruiyan Xu

Ruiyan Xu: Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai (2011, Bloomsbury UK)
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- 978-1-4088-0995-2
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A happy and successful businessman, dining in a Shanghai hotel, is badly injured by a gas explosion in the building. In the aftermath, the formerly bilingual Li Jin is only able to speak the faltering phrases of the English that he spoke as a child growing up in the United States, and is unable to communicate in Chinese with his wife. The family turns to an American neurologist, and she and Li Jing form a bond that does not need a translator to understand.