Abstract
“Good morning,” I blearily managed to mumble to Lao Deng and several other seniors I had never met who happened to be standing within earshot. As usual, Lao Deng had been the first to arrive for Teacher Chen’s class in People’s Park that morning (Figure 2.1). As usual, I couldn’t seem to get my act together and arrived somewhere in the middle of the pack. On this particular morning, I had been a little less enthusiastic about coming to the park than I normally would have been: an American spy plane had been forced to land at a Chinese air base on Hainan Island after a nasty incident that resulted in the downing of a Chinese fighter jet and the death of its pilot. In response to the threatening query, “Are you American?” I had already lied to more than one curious stranger in the last couple of days, “No, I’m Australian.”
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