i'm pleased to have jim fallows back at this table. welcome. pleasure to see you. >> thank you wz we justed talk about this where your wife has a new book out called mandarin lessons in life, love and language. >> dreaming in chinese. >> rose: the big title right there. she spes chinese. >> yeah. >> rose: and you read it. >> i can read more or less. so deb fallows, we have been married a very long time. she's a linguist, a ph.d in ling business fix. dure our time in china she pent her time learning chinese. i wrote a book about what you learn about a country about getting into the language. >> rose: its lot about the instinct of the culture. >> yes. i think it's a way to approach the lively humanity of china which doesn't come across that easily through news media reports which is the beijing olympic or oppression, but it is the quickness of the people that she and i in our different ways tried to get in touch with. >> rose: what is the essential different between chinese attitude and japanese attitude. >> that is something we debated a million

tonight jim fall owes-- fallows of the atlantic monly magazine on china and its future. >> i think mostin china, they can give you a million complaints about things they don't like, and yet in their own family's life. they remembe