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Leavening China

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Apr 18, 2009
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The Jingbao railway from Beijing to Inner Mongolia cuts across the eastern side of Beijing's Wudaokou subway station and the center of the city's student district, a cluttered hub of restaurants, Korean television rooms and clubs with names like "Propaganda."

As a train hauls past, Bang Yu Sun, a 28 year-old Korean student in her last year at Beijing Ins…

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