About the book: year / Albert spent a long time learning to draw these hieroglyphs. He drew them with a pencil on scraps of paper, wrote them with chalk on a blackboard, and furtively drew them on napkins. I no longer have time for Chinese, as for many other things, but I still managed to learn something. Yulin means jasper forest or jasper grove, her parents wanted to name her at first Ling - jade or Ling, compassionate, but settled on Yulin.