China Beat Archive

 

Date of this Version

2010

Document Type

Article

Citation

October 19, 2010 in The China Beat http://www.thechinabeat.org/

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Copyright 2010. Used by permission.

Abstract

On a train moving across north China last year, a girl, blond hair reaching down to her waist, maybe 15, darted past my bottom perch in the hard sleeper. As much as her hair, it was the colorful ankle-length dress she wore that caught my eye, the kind I’d spotted on girls in places like rural Utah and Nevada. I could have sworn I’d seen an apparition, but settled anyway back into my book.

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