My Shanghai, My Paradise

Author: Han Jieyu
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Delayed turning on the light, delayed countless memories, your rosy face full of spring, making peach blossoms and plums speak without words, making flowers and grass pay attention, making even the cicadas unable to help but chirp—this is what is called "a love of paradise." Living in Shanghai for over twenty years, Shanghai has always been too captivating for me. The theme of this collection of essays is Shanghai through my eyes, although I had been mulling over this theme for a long time and felt emotionally overwhelmed during the writing process, I realized upon finishing and rereading that the word "paradise" alone was insufficient to encompass all my thoughts, emotions, breaths, and pulses. Because everything about Shanghai is real and concrete, it encompasses my private life, memories, collections, and emotions growing up in Shanghai.