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Stewart Lee Beck 李渡 during his 24 years in China worked as a marketing director, bartender, actor, columnist, screenwriter, and documentary producer. This diversity of experience, coupled with his endless fascination with Chinese culture, fueled his two books: China Simplified: Language Empowerment and China Simplified: History Flashback. Stewart now lives in SE Asia with a Chinese wife whom he refers to as "the crazy woman who keeps me sane." ...more

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	China Simplified: History Flashback by Stewart Lee Beck (Goodreads Author), Sun Zhumin 4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	China Simplified: Language Gymnastics 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Birth of Modern China

The scene: Tiananmen Square.

Three thousand Beijing students shout accusations and patriotic slogans at their backward government. The scene turns ugly.

Protestors set fire to a cabinet minister’s home. Police intervene to disperse the mob and arrest 1,150 protesters, turning parts of Beijing University into a makeshift jail. The Beijing government doesn’t know it’s already too late to contain the

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“Once upon a time, a human belittled another human who spoke broken English, until the first human discovered English was the second human's third or fourth language, and then the first human felt rather stupid and decided to shut the f*** up.”
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