Points of Departure
When I got into a cab in Shanghai one afternoon, I told the driver the names of the two streets forming the nearest intersection to my destination, as is the habit when taking a taxi in Shanghai. He asked whether this was where the road changed names, asking whether Road A was the 分界线 between Road B and Road C. This is a very normal question in Chinese,…
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