As we approached the Workers’ Stadium the tinny beat got louder and soon the melody filled the air, a screeching Eurovision pop with Chinese characteristics.
In front of the main entrance we saw them through the evening gloom, a dozen or so women dancing in formation, arms swinging, hips shaking and feet stomping before they went into a twirl.
Known sometimes as Dancing Aunties, groups of women like this, most of them in late middle age or older, are a feature of most Chinese cities in the evenings. As we watched them, I told my friend Song that the sight of them always cheered me up.
“You wouldn’t say that if they were outside your building and you had to go to work in the morning,” he
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