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    AN ARDUOUS BUT WARM JOURNEY

    May 21, 2020 4 minutes
    By Xia Yuanyuan
    Copyedited by Francisco Little

    It was late March and the number of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the U.S. was surging. My classes had moved online, and it was crunch time for me. Should I stay or should I go? I thought long and hard before deciding to cut short my studies as a visiting scholar in the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, and head back home to Beijing.

    Before departure I psyched myself up into the right frame of mind. Faced with a global pandemic, international travel was going to be no picnic, and despite being prepared

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