In Situ: The Year of the Rooster
“The planet ceases to rotate. Pundits debate whether or not the moon will fall from the sky.”
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Opening the Hump
The trick is to pinpoint the time of the cycle, not to try to solve the mystery in the undertow. And to understand that everything needs time; you have to position yourself, warm up.
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The Upper Far East
So much for the ‘glamour’ of selling pretty things to pretty people.
...more“Start Your Year with Something Sweet”
The lunar new year has come and gone, but Charlene Cheung’s essay about what Chinese New Year celebrations meant to her growing up is still ripe for reading. It’s a lovingly rendered flashback to when Cheung was still eager to please her parents and bring a traditional Chinese doll to show-and-tell at school. You love […]
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Firecracker
I heard the percussion first, the dong-chiang, dong-dong-chiang of the drums and cymbals that accompanied the lion dance. The rhythms reverberated in the body and drowned out the traffic around the Far East Center in west Denver.
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