Comments | liralen: Shanghai -- Art Museum, Silk, City God Mall and Garden, Jet's Chop, and Acrobats, May 31

liralen

Shanghai -- Art Museum, Silk, City God Mall and Garden, Jet's Chop, and Acrobats, May 31

Aug 27, 2013 14:15

I woke up unable to speak because of my throat. I was tired, but felt mostly lucid. I was also absolutely determined to be able to go on the extra trip on the first, the next day, as we'd paid extra for it, and I really wanted to see the Garden out in Suzhou ( Read more... )

china, travel

Comments 6

incandescens August 28 2013, 00:08:23 UTC

Your descriptions are still gorgeous.

I would like to hope that you write something set here at some point. :)

liralen August 28 2013, 03:01:51 UTC

I really do want to! It would be really fun, but I'd still have to do a ton of research.

There were a lot of fascinating things Jevons said about how the capitalist experiments were working out, and how it's actually the people who had a criminal past who took advantage of the opportunities presented because they had nothing to lose so far as social status. The society frowns upon those that stand out, but ex-criminals who had been in jail had no face to lose in trying to make a lot of money. So a great deal of the country's free capital now lies in the hands of ex-criminals and that's starting to make a lot of interesting waves.

I want one of those people in one of my stories. *grins* They'd make a stunningly fun antagonist, I think. Especially since they're likely to jump on opportunities would make most sane people blanch.

incandescens August 28 2013, 23:16:03 UTC

That really would make for a fun antagonist! Or even just a "neutral but meddling" force/faction.

liralen September 3 2013, 16:21:04 UTC

Yes! I agree on either, or even an antagonist who can make an interesting turnaround when interests coincide... *laughs*

silkiemom August 28 2013, 02:11:48 UTC

Yay! I'm glad Jet likes his chop.

That museum sounds so cool! One of the hard parts about visiting museums is having to pick the bits you get to see when there's so much there. The paintings are gorgeous, and the jade sword sounds so cool.

liralen August 28 2013, 03:05:59 UTC

Jet loves his chop, he's starting to use it on his homework. He was so very content watching the woman carve it for him, too, that was really cool. It's nice to see that when Jet gets what he wants he actually likes it a lot.

YES! That was exactly the problem at the museum! *laughs*

I just stood for minutes in front of that sword, and Jet came up and said, "What's wrong, Mom?"

"Nothing... it's just... it's *real*."

"Of course it's real, Mom. It's in a museum."

He had no grasp of the myth! *laughs* But he was really intelligent and bought post cards of some of the terracotta warriors that he found in the gift store. I now wish I had.