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Life and fashion on the Shanghai campus in a foreign view
A correspondent describes daily life in Shanghai’s campus scene with Chinese teachers, their parasols, and students in blue gowns. The letter contrasts footwear, hairdos, and dress, notes sanitation concerns, and recounts transport modes from rickshas to trains and ferries, plus impressions of homes, streets, and living conditions.
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