摘要
As I walk out of the busy Birmingham New Street train station on this unusually shiny Saturday afternoon, I can make out thefamiliar sound of Chinese smartphone chat- ter next to me. Ni zai nar Cnere are you73 screams a young Chinese woman trudging through the crowd, apparently exhausted and displeased. Outside, a group of equally youthful Chinese is waiting at the taxi rank with oversized bright suitcases and bulging rucksacks. They are about to embark on one of the most thrilling adventures of their lives, the student experience abroad.