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China Elevator Stories
“Are You Chinese?”
A Chinese woman in her 40s starts talking to me in an elevator in Shenzhen.
11/11/2012
Ruth Silbermayr
Author
She says: “Your facial features are beautiful.”
I reply: “Thanks.”
“Are you Chinese?”
“No, I’m Austrian.”
“How come you speak Chinese fluently, then?”
Has anyone ever mistaken you for being from a country other than your own?
This is part of the series ‘Conversations with Locals in China,’ where I share conversations with Chinese people on my blog.