Hutongs Memories
Here is the 3rd article in my series of guest posts for Nothing But Hope and Passion
“Yet this dancing street sweeper indicates a different China. A China of the deepest laughter and the longest memory – despite the recurring suicide of recent history. A China of people and not ‘isms’ – of individuals not collectives. I cannot fathom China – its history, or its future. I am not a historian or a soothsayer. I am a musician and a traveler and all I am really doing is gauging the temperature of a moment. But at least in this I can bear witness to what is in front of me, and in those few, funny, endless minutes, I read something of an entire culture”
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