Shanghai Reminiscence

Shanghai Reminiscence

Shanghai is a city of incredible heart and energy.  Its excitement reaches out and grabs you when you walk its city streets and alleys.  Even now it is possible to find bits and pieces of an older city just by letting your feet lead you.  And the old places are the true places from which the new city jumped and pranced and tumbled into being.  

You will also discover tiny shops only as big as a closet but filled with treasures in silk or tea or minority stitching, even a tiny teahouse on the first floor of an old house where two exquisite young women serve you a tiny cup of oolong tea and then one young woman plays a song on her gu qin (古琴)that will break your heart with its beauty and its sorrow, and when that melody turns softly into silence, her friend will tell you an old tale of Yu Boya(俞伯牙)and his gu qin.

Suzanne Portero (Bixia Su)
2011/March

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