Sky Screen: My Class Teacher's Everyday Life Stuns the Ancients

Liu Yunshan, forty-three, was a Chinese teacher at a key city high school, with twenty years of teaching experience and fifteen years as a homeroom teacher.

Her husband was a criminal police officer who worked overtime year-round. Her nine-year-old son was in third grade, at the age when even dogs found him annoying.

On the first day of school, she pushed open the door to Senior Class Seven.

At the same time, a sky screen quietly descended over the course of China’s thousands of years of history: the camps of the Warring States, the court of Great Qin, the corridors of the Han palace, the black-roofed lanes of Jian Kang, the palace walls before Xuanwu Gate, the imperial streets of Bianjing, the city towers of Yingtian...