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...Old Hunter’s other nickname, “Suzhou Opera Singer,” a reference to a popular southern dialect opera known for its performers’ tactics of prolonging a story through endless digression.
This author must have a great voice. I think a neat historical note could have saved 200 pages of endless explanations. The book felt too long.
Very interesting to learn about life, work and housing in Shanghai in 1990 though.
— Jun 12, 2014 02:43PM
This author must have a great voice. I think a neat historical note could have saved 200 pages of endless explanations. The book felt too long.
Very interesting to learn about life, work and housing in Shanghai in 1990 though.
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Emperor Yan.. had many imperial concubines, and one favorite goat. At night, the emperor let the goat amble before him through a sea of bedrooms. When the goat stopped, the Emperor took it as a sign from Heaven to spend the night in the nearest room. More often than not, he found the goat halted in front of the 311 concubine’s pearl-curtained door. She was wrapped in white clouds, in anticipation of the coming rain.
— Jun 12, 2014 12:00PM
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“Returning your lustrous pearls with tears in my eyes, / Lord, I should’ve met you before I married.”
— Jun 11, 2014 03:20PM
