Is this green tea?

Yes, it's kind of Japanese green tea.

Yeah, with roasted rice and then...

Oh, I'm just doing.

So I might taste different from English tea.

Yeah.

There's not Chinese tea.

But we are in China.

I'm Caroline Bailey, and I'm starting this program

for the BBC World Service in Shanghai,

where I'm drinking tea with three young women in their 20s

who've all moved here from Taiwan.

I'm in E. Chunchen and Y'an-Lu's small rented flat in the center of the city.

It's a Saturday afternoon and they've been joined by their friend Chichu who's only recently arrived in China.

They're in a relaxed mood and the three of them laugh a lot as we talk about what

brought them here. I start my internship in Alibaba in Hong Kong

so and I do it because I'm interested in the internet by my career. Because

Alibaba is the huge internet company in China, isn't it?

And then I went back to Taiwan and finished my master degree.

And then some Shanghai company, design agencies,

recoup me so I came back here to start my first career here.

Actually I just relocated to Shanghai like last month from Taiwan and I was working a Japanese consulting company and we have both an office

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