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Jing-Jing: Adventures in China

By Dan Tannacito
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$16.99
By Dan Tannacito
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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 exper...