“她想要什么?”站在卖蔬菜的妇女旁边的那个水果小贩大声问道。我身处泸州的一个街市,泸州是中国四川省的一座小城,位于长江畔。好奇的旁观者围拢过来:他们中有白发苍苍的老奶奶,牙齿掉光了的老汉,把怀里不停折腾着的婴儿挪来挪去的妈妈们,人人都在等着,不明白这个老外到底想 “What does she want?” asked the fruit vendor next to the woman selling the vegetables. I live in a market in Zhangzhou, a small town in Sichuan Province, China, on the banks of the Yangtze River. Curious spectators surrounded us: among them were the old, gray-haired grandmother, the old man who had lost his teeth, and the mothers who had moved their infants to and fro, and everyone was waiting. I didn’t understand this. What do foreigners want?