It has poured with rain all day, and I’ve been catching up on my fieldnotes and visiting local bookstores in search of more materials.

However, on the subway on the way into town in the evening, I noticed a PSA about what not to do on the subway (no smoking, don’t step down onto the tracks even if you’ve dropped your mobile phone down there, etc etc). It began with a woman in a uniform addressing us and saying “The platform is everyone’s public space…” (站台是我们大家的公共空间).

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