"Have you seen any foreigners?" she asks Xinran, fearfully.

她怯怯地问欣然：“你见过外国人吗？”

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In 1997 Xinran moved to England, where she met and later married Jung Chang's then literary agent.

1997年欣然来到英国，在这里遇上了张戎的文稿经纪人，后来嫁给了他。

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"Suddenly, I thought I heard a slight movement in the slops pail behind me," Miss Xinran remembers.

“突然，我想我听到身后的污水桶在轻微的晃动，”欣然小姐回忆道。

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The author, Xinran Xue, who uses the name Xinran as a nom de plume, is an old hand.

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Several of Xinran's interviewees tell her not just that the young do not know about the past, but they do not particularly want to know.

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