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What Its Like to Serve the Chinese Elite

Books & the Arts / Zhang Yueran’s novel Women, Seated—a take on the upstairs, downstairs drama—examines class conflict among ...

‘No one has ever regretted doing music. Many people regret quitting’: Jerilynn Harris honored as best school orchestra director of the year

The seventh-graders walked into Jerilynn Harris’ orchestra class just before 9:25 a.m. Kids set up cellos bigger than their bodies, gingerly took violins out from cases and set up their music stands ...