East Meets West
March 10th 2012 As I write this, I’m sitting in a KFC having a cup of milk tea. This particular KFC -- it's one of three in Xiasha -- is situated in a huge circular shopping mall a few blocks east of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, where I teach. The mall is baby blue, very high design, with a round courtyard in the center surrounded by restaurants and cafes. There’s a Dairy Queen, a Pizza Hut, and a KFC st
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