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Chinese Youth Enjoy a New Western Import: The Gap Year

By Xiao Wu on November 26, 2012

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A Weibo user with the handle "nobodies are happy" tweeted this image while expressing a longing to take a gap year. (Via Weibo)

Eat your heart out, Jack Kerouac; wanderlust has found its way to modern China. On November 14, a 27-year-old woman from the coastal city of Ningbo made headlines in a local newspaper after coming back …

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