The day starts with no confirmed meeting time. A women entrepreneur was supposed to pick me up but when I wake up in the morning, Zhou Juemin tells me the time has not been set yet. In the end, at one o’clock in the afternoon, a car with the second woman I was to interview in Shanghai, Gu Fenghui, arrives. She is the General Manager of the Shanghai Macro Home Real Estate Co. [Minhua Wuye, in Mandarin] and a permanent member of the National Association of Real Estate Management. She has come personally to pick me up and go to her offices. Her chauffeur, a woman, accompanies her. This catches the attention because in China there are many ...

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