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This is great content, thank you. Mr Yang actually sounds pretty much like all of my colleagues (in Suzhou).

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Cue American Psycho card scene: Let's see the NYTimes' interview subject...

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What wonderful articles, rather than sweeping generalizations about China, we get a micro view and how things are on the ground.

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Many thanks. Great info about how Chinese people live.

Just one little nerdy thing - I'm studying Mandarin at a beginner level - you occasionally include the pinyin but mostly don't. It would be good for people like me if you did that more.

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I've learned so much from conversations with taxi drivers in Shanghai.

Thanks for sharing your exchange with the Didi driver on the way to the Nanning airport.

Did you have an audio recorder switched on in the car?

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