Shuang Xuetao on Memory as a Movie
Briefly

"Over the past ten years, I've been meeting more and more people who studied abroad-perhaps because of having moved from my home town, Shenyang, to Beijing."
"Many people in Beijing aren't Beijingers, and even when they are, they may not have always lived there. I decided to write a story about his time in Paris and had a number of conversations with him."
"In an era when all meaning is being swallowed up, gambling might someday become humankind's favorite activity."
Read at The New Yorker
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