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Like millions of rural Chinese people before her, when Xing Jianli was younger she left her village and went to a big city, finding work in a clothes factory. But now the 38-year-old is back on the ...

Ms. Gao is a freelance writer. She wrote from Beijing. Every Monday morning, the stirring strains of China’s national anthem stream into my Beijing apartment from the elementary school across the ...