Monday, November 10, 2008

My Parents are Very Famous in Hong Kong

My Rents came to Shanghai this weekend! That's us at a tea shop.

That's us at the M50 Art Galleries.

For our Chinese Culture class this week, we took an excursion to a nearby dance studio. This is a photograph of a rehearsal put on by the very first privately owned dance company in China- which is to say, the very first dance company not controlled and supported by the Communist Party. The company was created by a very famous male to female transsexual contemporary dancer named Jing Xing. I wish I could explain what this afternoon was like in great detail but there's no way I could possibly do it justice.

This guy cleaned out his chamber pot in the street.

And this lady was in a Chinese Opera performance we saw. When we saw her backstage she was kind of a diva but our little battle axe Chinese Opera teacher insisted she was "very famous in Hong Kong". Our teacher then proceeded to describe every subsequent person as being "very famous in Hong Kong.

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