Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?
After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
Memory feeds imagination.
I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
Chaos is the penance for leisure.
Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality, Shanghai personality becomes part of yours.