My Cousin's Funeral

My cousin passed away, and I returned home to attend her funeral, which brought back memories of days gone by. Though it seems to tell the story of my cousin and our shared past, it is really a snapshot of an entire generation,

and a miniature version of the changes our times have undergone.

It is also a true portrait of everyone who lived through the journey from Liberation to the Cultural Revolution and the Down to the Countryside Movement, then welcomed Reform and Opening Up and ushered in a new chapter in the Chinese Dream.

I hope you will take the time to savor my work, and that you will find in it, to some degree, the flavor of your own life and that of your family.