Suzhou Born and Bred
February 2nd 2009 On the eve of the New Chinese Year, 2009, year of the Ox, I tentatively approached a man in the old Pingjiang district of Suzhou with a hanzi hand-written request that I had asked my friend to write for me. Every morning for the previous 2 months, I had walked my dog past the little barber’s shop deep in the back lanes of Pingjiang and I’d noticed more and more of the life within the tiny shop
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