"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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Whether or not the women Xinran interviewed will ever read their own stories in print is another question.

欣然采访过的妇女，是否将在出版的书中读到她们的故事，是另一个问题。

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XINRAN XUE, a Chinese writer, describes visiting a peasant family in the Yimeng area of Shandong province.

薛欣然，一位中国作家，到山东沂蒙地区某农村家庭出访时，曾这样描写自己的经历。

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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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