Twenty of these twenty-two refer to discoveries about the ways in which China functions, or perhaps how we as Europeans can misunderstand what to the Chinese is entirely sensible. Thus I begin to see how weird we must appear to them. During this year I moved from Xi’an to Nanjing.
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