“For me it was a really transformative experience,” says Fravel, who began to learn the language in Chinese-speaking Taiwan while attending an American school.

“对我来说，这个经历是变革性的，”傅瑞威尔说到，那时，我一边读美国的学校一边学习汉语。

“For me it was a really transformative experience, ” says Fravel, who began to learn the language in Chinese-speaking Taiwan while attending an American school.

“对我来说，这个经历是变革性的，”傅瑞威尔说到，那时，我一边读美国的学校一边学习汉语。

By middle school, Fravel was a habitué of the original Borders bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich. , and had read virtually all of the major memoirs written about the Vietnam War.

中学时，傅瑞威尔是密西根安阿伯原国界书店的一名常客，在那里，他阅读了所有有关越南战争的回忆录。