As China rises, demand grows for Mandarin language skills

[Francis Hult]

International Herald Tribune

 

As China rises, demand grows for Mandarin language skills

 

When Marvin Ho co-founded a Chinese language school in Taiwan in 1957, his only students were a handful of Western missionaries.

 

Five decades later, it's a different story. Ho's classrooms are packed with scores of people clamoring to learn what they believe is the next global language: Mandarin Chinese.

 

China, having traded socialism for capitalism, is emerging as an economic power, perhaps the only one that could rival U.S. dominance in the 21st century. For a new generation of students, business people and even artists, the land of opportunity now lies in the East, not the West.

 

Full story:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/24/business/yuan.php

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