The red Chairman turns cobalt, turquoise, tan, purple then to a familiar green. A rainbow of symbolism seeps from the Ren Min Bi as mood ring analogies strut onto the page: green with envy and red with passion and every feeling and hue between. More than 100 years of change change change has sprung a [...]
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Xinxiang Change
West is coming East. Actually, in many ways, it’s already arrived and making itself comfortable - most noticeably in the streets of Xinxiang.
As the realities of capitalism set in on struggling business owners, they must quickly depart from their storefront property as the next entrepreneur sets-up shop. New businesses open weekly, even daily, and I [...]
Keeping Stride
A short story:
Dim lights mixed with the cloudy haze that commonly filled the Xinxiang air. The combination added a milky lens over the midnight dark. I kept my stride as I focused on sure footing and took in a rare moment of sweet smelling air - absent of sewage and pollution this evening. As I [...]
Halloween Superstar
This is not a self-proclaimed title. There is a small but growing population of Xinxiang University students who think that Jake Jones is a superstar.
I was asked to give a Halloween lecture on the evening of October 31st. Little did I know that this talk would catapult me to Xinxiang stardom. I prepared some classic [...]