The Road to Sleeping Dragon Quotes

“Maybe Beijing kept tearing itself down to bury its unexamined past. Memories didn’t stick to the sleek sides of skyscrapers. Make the sofas thick, the music loud, the televisions large, the cars fast. Blur and round and smooth the past until it becomes as rumored as this disappearing hútòng. Older people will say it was there, they saw it. Their younger listeners will nod politely, unable to imagine something they’d never seen.”
― Michael Meyer, The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up