This Love Could Not Be Delivered

by Lu Min

  [36] High cholesterol, high blood pressure and high blood sugar.

  [37] About three euros.

  [38] In China, residency status is retained in a booklet as a form of identification, used similarly to ID cards (which Chinese also use) in various situations. Like in most other nations, residency determines where a Chinese may get state benefits and where children may go to school.

  [39] What is more commonly known as the peace gesture in the West is a gesture meaning "victory" in the East.

  [40] Fensi is the Chinese word for "potato noodles", which, due to the perceived similarity to the English word "fans", is used to mean fans, supporters, and followers in Chinese.

  [41] Chinese are expected to wait until after college or at least until after high school before they start dating (though in practice this expectation is often unrealistic), and dating before age twenty-two is generally stigmatized and called "early dating".

  [42] A common service offered in Chinese hair salons is a hair wash with a scalp and shoulder massage, often costing very little money. Many houses of prostitution use this type of business as a front for their illegal activities.

  [43] Many Chinese wash their vegetables in salt water.

  [44] Due to lower quality construction in China, most buildings are never refurbished but demolished and rebuilt instead.

  [45] The eve of Chinese New Year.

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  Originally published in 2010 in China as This Love Could Not be Delivered by Yilin Press

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