Subject: Re: Jason's continuing tales...Mandarin From: stvan@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Laurel Smith Stvan) Date: 1991-11-06, 17:04 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks It's the main "dialect" of Chinese (as opposed to Cantonese, for example) and the official national language of the People's Republic of China. Laurel Smith Stvan