Gerry Sperling, a contributor to Guanxi issue 1 and a friend since we met in Rome last December, sent this encouraging note: Che dao shan xian, bi you lu!–If you get the cart to the foot of the moountain, there has to be a way around it.

I’ll keep this in mind as I study Chinese, and publish about China. Tomorrow, I’m going to test out the Rosetta Stone Language Library.