The Scrum on the Beijing-Shanghai Train
The elderly Chinese man in the small booth behind the thick glass waved his hand and shook his head. I didn't need to know a word of Chinese – I know exactly 11 – to understand there were no beds available for the Thursday night train from Beijing to Shanghai.
I looked down at the pathetic sheet of school-issued stationery on which my student had written…
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