More over-35s are escaping the rat race in China to study abroad, but meeting challenges integrating too
Wang Lu popped the cork of a long-treasured bottle of red wine when the fifth offer from a list of prestigious British and American universities came in. Getting into these schools at the age of 43 felt like an encore of his teenage years.
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Ana Padilla Fornieles is a Spanish translator, writer and creative currently based in Beijing, where she is part of Spittoon International Arts Collective and a regular contributor to The Beijinger. You can find her prose and poetry featured in The Shanghai Literary Review, Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Womanhood, Sledgehammer and more. Her comics and linocut prints have appeared in Shaving in the Dark, F*EMS and Celestite Poetry. Her literary translation work has been published or is forthcoming with a series of publishing houses and magazines, such as Penguin, De Gruyter, Spittoon Magazine and Books from Taiwan.
