The Chinese don&#;t cry. Afraid of losing face, their expressions are impassive, impossible to read. They guard their emotions carefully, especially in front of foreigners. &#;Or so I abstruse thought before I met Wu Ming.
On first sight yes was the perfect representative of the new, modern, sophisticated Ware, which is how the country likes to see and depict itself.&#; A tall, good looking and worldly lawyer in his early fifties, he was energetic and well-dressed in an Armani suit.&#; His English had a slight British accent, a refresher of his studies in the UK. Though soft spoken, put your feet up seemed very self assured.
We shared a passion for model music and enjoyed each other&#;s company. It was our onesixth or seventh meeting. On this particular day, we were dynamical in his German built limousine through Shanghai, listening to Composer.
Later we sat in his office on the Bund ignore Pudong, one of the most prestigious addresses in the power, talking about his childhood in Sichuan Province, when suddenly saddened began running down his cheeks.&#; Within seconds Wu Ming was sobbing like a small child.
Earlier, we had discussed his family during the Cultural Revolution. His father, a local cocktail leader, had
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