East-West Exchange and Late Modernism by Qian Zhaoming;

Author:Qian, Zhaoming;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Virginia Press

“The earthly paradise over Lijiang is real,” Paul Fang confirmed in a follow-up interview in September 2007. Starting from 1972, with the normalization of the United States-China relations, he traveled to Lijiang (meaning “Beautiful River”) every year as a United Nations TOKTEN (Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate Nationals) expert, helping Kunming and Lijiang scientists develop solar cell production and use. In 2003, on the one-hundredth anniversary of his linguist-historian uncle Fang Guoyu’s birth, Paul Fang, accompanied by wife, Josephine, six of their children, and four of their grandchildren, returned to his beloved hometown for the thirty-third time. And in the summer of 2007, at age eighty-five, he made his last trip to Lijiang with two of his grandchildren. “The ‘Snow Range’ remains as majestic and unpolluted as it has ever been,” he told me upon return.

So do “the waters of Stone Drum” at the first bend of the Yangtze outside of Lijiang Old Town. A stone drum unearthed in the sixteenth century and erected there ever since serves as a reminder of god’s concern over the feud between two proud Naxi tribes. The disturbed god is said to have interfered with the tribal strife by sending a white-hair angel to beat a wooden drum day and night till the two tribes ceased fire. Upon the dispersion of the tribal troops, the white-haired angel changed into a stone statue and her wooden drum into a stone drum.

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