The West is a test

Moving overseas doesn't necessarily deliver Nirvana to Chinese who seek a better lot. Xing Yi reports.

When, as a girl, Ye Pei's thoughts turned to her mother, vivid images of Venice, with its canals and gondolas, floated through her mind.

Her mother had emigrated from China to the Italian city in 2006, and Ye fantasized about a woman who had made a shining success of her life in this new world rushing to embrace her daughter when they reunited.