China
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Published in Living on Earth: Public Radio’s Environmental New Magazine, February 2020 Most of the time, living in this place feels like a respite from environmental woe; sometimes though we feel like we’re living on the front line. The intelligent find joy in water. If Confucius is right, we must all be prodigies.We moved to
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Published in *82 Review, 2019 Sitting drinking beer in Chen Da Jie’s garden, we notice motes of bamboo sawdust drifting down on us from the roof. “Those bumblebees, they’re li hai,” she complains. In rural China, li hai is normally a term of approval. When you complete a long-distance hike at altitude, or a bruising cross-province drive, or
Fiona Lindsay Shen 