And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

a laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass between us--like a spark to start a fire or a seed to grow rice. But a single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love--true-heart love--must grow.

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.