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In this edition of People and Places we meet the young and highly-successful Chinese writer and film-maker, Xiaolu Guo.

She talks about learning English, and how she had fun trying to find the right kind of English for a character in her best-selling novel, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.

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Vocabulary from the programme

rural
to do with the countryside

a clash
a conflict, a situation where two things are very different from each other

Mandarin
the official language of China

more or less
This expression means 'about' or 'approximately'.
Example:
She said she felt more or less the same as everyone else about the new timetable.

to be in tune with something
to be similar to something and combine well with it

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