Take a quick scan through the trade leads and you’ll notice the large number of Chinese companies selling shoes - mainly sports shoes with big brand names. Here’s one such trade lead.

I couldn’t help thinking about them whilst I read ‘A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers‘, a book that’s recently been published, written by a Chinese woman - Xiaolu Guo.

It’s a romantic comedy about a young lady whose parents run a shoe factory in China. She’s sent to England to learn English and we get an amusing look at how she grapples with the differences in language, custom and her new found sexual freedoms. Well worth a read.