A Thousand Pieces of Gold
“is difficult to translate because it encompasses the city as well as the dwelling you used to live in before the age of ten. You might have loved or hated it while you were there; it doesn’t really matter. But despite your feelings for it at that time, this particular place will become special as you grow older and will affect you in a way no other place can duplicate. It is different from any other location in the world. You might even say that its shadow has become part of your soul. No matter how old or how young you are, when you go there again, it will conjure emotions and invoke memories that are unique.
For me, that city and place is Shanghai. Although I was born in Tianjin, a northern city one thousand miles away, my mother, father, aunt, and grandparents were all from Shanghai. My father took me to Shanghai when I was five years old, and I lived there for the next five years.
Readers ask me, “Where is your home?” And now it has become a very difficult question to answer.
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