When Sidney Ritterberg began to study Chinese, he didn't realize his entire life would be entangled with the country.
"I volunteered for the Army after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I was picked out to be trained in Japanese because I did well on a language test that they gave. But I didn't want to be in military government and mainly I wanted to go home right after the war. I thought, “China is an ally, if I study Chinese, I'll come back right after the war."
Sidney was born into a Jewish family
