Opening My Red Window
Opening My Red Window
As I look out my ?window pane,? my image and preconceptions of China are limited and vague. In order to understand and experience what it is that China represents I believe it is necessary to push aside my current views and open that window to witness China?s full potential. Often times my view is blurred by the images of China I have seen as a child and young adult.
My personal windowpane is one of vagueness and preconceptions. These vague preconceptions are due to the small encounters I have experienced with China as a youth in America. The many faint scratches are small and numerous, often times hard to see with the naked eye. Most of these scratches are from the folklore that I have heard as a child about the fascinating and strange world across the ocean. These include things and people such as Marco Polo, Confuscious, The Great Wall, and other ancient tales that come from thousands of miles away to bring us a slightly blurred vision of a far off land.
Deeper scratches, or marks, that have influenced my visions of China are that of a communist
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