In Beijing, 20 Million People Pretend to Live :: 在北京，有2000万人假装在生活 (full translation)

Editor’s note: On July 23, the writer Zhang Wumao published an essay called “In Beijing, 20 Million People Pretend to Live” to his public WeChat account. As of the following morning, it had accumulated more than 5 million views and nearly 20,000 …
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