Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Elis make the most of Beijing hosts

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, August 29, 2008

BEIJING — In Beijing’s Silk Street Market, under a huge billboard that cries, “Shop with Confidence!”, foreigners mill through a disproportionately Western mob of shoppers who look mostly dazed and confused. “This is too overwhelming!” one young western woman cries with a loony chuckle as she races through the narrow aisle. A nearby shop owner tries to soothe her, “Excuse me lady? Try handbag: Prada, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Burberry.” Another man in the corner looks with disbelief at the offer punched in a calculator: “420 for those pants? Is that in Euro?”

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