nestled between a stricly protected montane forest and the bright-blue freshwater expanses of Dong Qian Hu
[...] China in general, in its headlong pursuit of money, with fabulous millionaries and a vast underclass and a dismantled social safety net, and with a central government obsessed with security and skilled at exploiting natonalism to quiet its critics, and with economic and environmental regulati…
The roads were modern but heavily divoted, as if it were understood that they would all be torn up again soon anyway.
on Shanghai
My father, despite writing letters filled with life and curiosity, saw nothing wrong with consigning my mother to four decades of cooking and cleaning at home while he was enjoying his agency out in the world of men. It seems to be the rule, in both the small world of marriage and the big world of …
