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Dreams of Old Shanghai
Shanghai girl, Wang Xiudi
today you dream of days long gone.
Such times as sailing
down the Yangtze
to a cold place, so far away from home,
strange world across a lonely
sea
Then China rising like a dream
brings, new times and many changes.
Now home, and
held in high esteem
you even know three languages,
but what's the one in which you
dream?
Published as Editor's Choice in Sol Magazine, Summer 2006. Read on Radio Sarawak on 17 Jan 2007 and at Yunnan University, March 2011.
site updated
23 Jan 2012
How do you do.
I'm a tree frog.
How about you,
you a frog too?
Where are you?
I'm up a tree.
How about you,
up a tree too?
See that smoke.
Slash and burn.
Makes me choke.
Choke and croak.
What can I do,
I'm a tree frog?
How about you,
what can you do?
I'm a tree frog.
How about you,
you a frog too?
Where are you?
I'm up a tree.
How about you,
up a tree too?
See that smoke.
Slash and burn.
Makes me choke.
Choke and croak.
What can I do,
I'm a tree frog?
How about you,
what can you do?
More China photos here
China Rising
A star is rising again in the east.
Remember the Tang and the Song.
Thank God it's rising peacefully.
Now there's a bit of a novelty.
Remember the Tang and the Song.
A new golden age is rising again.
Now there's a bit of a novelty.
Have we ever seen that before?
A new golden age is rising again.
Thank God it's rising peacefully.
Have we ever seen that before?
A star is rising again in the east.
Read on Radio Sarawak on 28 March 2007 and at Yunnan University, June 2005 and April 2011.
