When I asked Lu Qingmin, the young woman I got to know best, what exactly she did on the factory floor, she said something to me in Chinese that sounded like "qiu xi." Only much later did I realize that she had been saying "QC," or quality control. She couldn't even tell me what she did on the factory floor.
Cuando le pregunté a Lu Qingmin, la joven que mejor llegué a conocer, qué era exactamente lo que ella hacía en la planta, me dijo algo en chino que sonaba como "qiu xi." Sólo mucho después, me percaté que decía "QC," o control de calidad [quality control] Ella ni siquiera podía decirme qué era lo que hacía en la planta.