Collateral damage of the feline kind
Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to…
demolition
Her home. A long history.
She left most affairs to her son whom she lived with. She slept on the first floor which was neat and well kept while he slept in the…
Power breakfast
CEOs have their executive breakfasts at the Hyatt or Shangri La in gleaming skyscrapers. The ordinary construction worker has his by the side of the road amidst the…
The face of Shanghai’s skyline
We don’t pay enough tribute to the backbone of Shanghai’s construction fervor, as unhappy as Shanghai residents seem to be by all the Expo-driven noise and air pollution….
Better city, better life – redux
From a small town outside of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, he looked perfectly airbrushed to be the face of the upcoming Shanghai Expo: the proud craftsman behind the…
White picket fences
He was sitting on his makeshift porch, mending his bicycle when I approached him. He stood up warily and it was then I realized that he only came…
What next?
“We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If…
The remaining days
He laughed when I asked how long he and his wife were living in this house. “She’s not my wife. She’s my mother-in-law.” It was only after a…