Pop Mandarin: A Postmodern Chinese Phrasebook from Feng Shui to Wall Street

Pop Mandarin is loaded with nearly 1,000 phrases (including both pinyin and simplified characters for each sentence) designed to equip students with a vocabulary to converse with hip, cosmopolitan, and cutting-edge ideas that go beyond any other Chinese phrasebook. This is the perfect volume for any one who has wondered how to tell or ask someone… How did the Dow do today? How to request an upgrade to business class I like to surf/mountain bike/rollerblade/do yoga I am a vegetarian Why you are in China to adopt your Chinese daughter Why you recycle your newspapers How to request a glass of Chardonnay