A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Z is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English. As she gets to know British culture she also falls for an older English man. Written in short chapters, this book pokes fun at England and China and explores the possibilities for misunderstanding between East and West, men and women.

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain.