Sunday in a Beijing hotel lobby: every table is a student with a tutor
broodsugar · x · 2026-10-25
The author spent a Sunday afternoon in a Beijing hotel lobby cafe where nearly every table was occupied by students with tutors. His Western client, meanwhile, was puzzled he had a university lecture on a Saturday — because Sunday's curriculum was already set. His takeaway: "You don't understand how locked in these people are."
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