Ninety minutes—an hour and a half, the length of two class periods—is all it takes to travel from Hangzhou to Nanjing by high-speed rail.
Or to watch a movie in a theater.
Premiering at the Triumphal Theater, *A Chinese Ghost Story* started promptly at eight o'clock in the evening and ended at nine-thirty.
Clap! Clap! Clap! As the lights in the screening hall came up, the previously silent auditorium seemed to wake suddenly from a deep sleep. Someone took the lead in applauding, and the applause quickly spread across the entire hall.
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