Here is a handy language helper for English-speaking travelers. A bilingual phrasebook is combined with a 90-minute cassette featuring simplified bilingual dialogues in Chinese and English. An accompanying transcript booklet contains printed versions of the tape's dialogues. The language phrasebook, Chinese at a Glance, presents more than 1,500 Chinese expressions with translations that will help English-speaking travelers get around in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other travel sites. The newly revised edition has been improved with more attractive and useful city maps, availability of ATMs, faxes, and other modern facilities in far-away cities and towns, and much more.
Scott D. Seligman is a writer, a historian, a genealogist, a retired corporate executive and a career "China hand." He has an undergraduate degree in history from Princeton University with a concentration in American civilization and a master's degree from Harvard University. Fluent in Mandarin and conversant in Cantonese, he lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China for eight years and reads and writes Chinese. He has worked as a legislative assistant to a member of the U.S. Congress, lobbied the Chinese government on behalf of American business, managed a multinational public relations agency in China, served as spokesperson and communications director for a Fortune 50 company and taught English in Taiwan and Chinese in Washington, DC. He is the author of Chinese Business Etiquette (Hachette, 1999), Dealing With the Chinese (Warner Books, 1989) and Three Tough Chinamen (Earnshaw Books, coming in 2012) and co-author of The Cultural Revolution Cookbook (Earnshaw Books, 2011), Chinese at a Glance (Barron's Educational Series, 1985 and 2001) and Now You're Talking Mandarin Chinese (Barron's, 2006). He has also published articles in the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the China Business Review and the Jewish Daily Forward and has created several websites on historical and genealogical topics. He lives in Washington, DC.
