The Shen Hamlet, my father taking beans off the stems near our chicken barn

The canal in front of the Shen Hamlet, over the asphalt road, my favorite place to linger when I was a child

My father having dinner in our two-story house

Today’s Shen Hamlet, where rice paddies are replaced by construction sites for factories

Aisling and roommate Fish in college in Suzhou, 1992

Aisling, mother, father, Spring and her son Tiantian in Shanghai HK Plaza hotel in January 2009 before Aisling left for the flight back to America.

Old Number Two standing on the asphalt road in front of the Shen Hamlet

Bailing’s villa in the center of the hamlet

Spring, my mother and Aisling in Shanghai airport, 1998

Aisling in the South, working as secretary, 1996

Aisling in Xiaman, on top of a mountain, 1999

Aisling graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in Economics.

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My grandfather Lianshen in his shack having dinner

Honor on his motorcycle, with rice paddies behind him

Grandfather Lianshen watching a villager knocking coal to pieces for water boiling in the iron sheet stove

Aisling in Xiamen with co-worker Brother Two, working as a translator, 1997

Aisling in Xiaman, as a businesswoman

Aisling at a Celtics home game, Boston 2009.