"Do you know how to stir your tea; ladies?" two chinese women; ages 19 and 23; are seated on a handsome sofa in a 3lst-floor hotel suite in downtown beijing with views of ritan park and monument-lined chang'an avenue. they sit demurely with their knees together; legs crossed at the ankles-not over the thighs-as instructed. each holds a black spiral notebook in her lap. they delicately drop lumps of sugar into gold-rimmed teacups; then clank their spoons lightly on the rims.
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