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A child plays the piano while a woman instructs in the living room of an apartment.
From Leslie Chang’s story that accompanied these photographs in National Geographic Magazine:
By the time she was ten, Bella lived a life that was rich with possibility and as regimented as a drill sergeant’s. After school she did homework unsupervised until her parents got home. Then came dinner, bath, piano practice. Sometimes she was permitted television, but only the news. On Saturdays she took a private essay class followed by Math Olympics, and on Sundays a prep class for the middle-school entrance exam and piano lessons. The best moment of the week was Friday afternoon, when school let out early. Bella might take a deep breath and look around, like a man who discovers a glimpse of blue sky from the confines of the prison yard.
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- RANDY OLSON
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- China's Bling Dynasty_National Geographic Magazine 5/2008
