stories
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Recently I started to dream often about my hometown. The first image I remember when I wake up in the morning is myself on that muddy country road with rain boots, just walking. I couldn’t see my face, the only thing I could see was the boots. Everything seemed very refreshing in the dream: the…
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The Qing court must have seemed quite venerableto the regular people going about their business beyond the walls of the forbidden city. Min Gong Rui, a non royal duke in the court, was half amused thinking of the merchants and peasants just outside the walls looking with awe at the imposing city within a city. …
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We encounter so many people in life. Some for good, and some for ill. I say that, but depending on who you ask, there’s always some good in everything that we happen to get snagged on. So who’s to say? I guess I’ve always been more interested in the why of things in either case. …