Megan Shank is an editor, writer and translator living in Shanghai, China.
WRITTEN FOR THE BEIJING REVIEW
As the Celine Dion remix of “My Heart Will Go On,” filled the tiny aerobics room, I was surprised to find my feet bouncing with alacrity equal to the dozen other pairs surrounding me.
I thought in Asia, I’d finally be able to give up cheese. Little did I know that an [...]
Some nights, when I sit talking with my Chinese band mates, the Mandarin smoothly rolls from my mind to my mouth. The meaning and the expression coordinate by a force as powerful as the jazz we play together at a five-star hotel here in Dalian, China. However, this coordination, like good music, comes only through [...]
I LOVE THE CADENCE OF THIS PEACE. I THINK I CAPTURED AN HONEST FEELING HERE.
An Evening on Peaceful Quiet Street
By M. Marie Shank
The hawkers’ cries herald the beginning or the winding down of any given day here. Now it’s half past five o’clock p.m., and the sound of their sonorous voices as they walk [...]