Transcription: At Nanjing, we had our first sight of the river. Although Shanghai is known as the gateway to the Yangtze, it isn't actually on it, but is on a connecting river called the Huangpu. Nanjing is on the Yangtze itself. It is a grim town, or at least we found it to be so. The sense of alien dislocation gathered us more tightly into its grip. The people we found to be utterly opaque, and with either stare at us or ignore us, I was reminded of a conversation I'd had with a Frenchman on the plane to Beijing. It is difficult to talk to the Chinese people, he had said. Partly it is the language, if you ...
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