TriQuarterly, March 22nd, 1998
In the electric aura of the circus tent, 1975, a man was pedaling on a bicycle. His title, Dai Yut, Main Cyclist of the Beijing Arts Ensemble, filled him with majesty and laziness - he was busy making eyes at the two seamstress sisters standing across from one another. The older sister was by the stage door, framed by mesh curtains, and the younger one, the one that insisted on being called Miss Fu Lam as if she were much older than her twenty years, was leaning against the front row rail of the audience. Fourteen of his fellow performers, wearing head-to-toe turquoise satin, began clamberin...
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