Bai (Huang Lu), a young woman who has recently graduated from a big-city university, is hired as a saleswoman of herbal medicines and accompanies her boss and a colleague on a business trip to an isolated, mountainous rural village.

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Ms. Huang said Ms. Lu acted as a kind of matchmaker among Boston University's Chinese student community, helping people find roommates and make friends, Ms. Huang said.

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Ms. Lu went to watch the marathon Monday with two other Chinese international students, said Lucy Huang, another graduate student at the university who had close friends in common with Ms. Lu.

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