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...Bing's mother, Yee, slips off her sandals as she steps into the hut, clutching her 14-month-old baby. She sits down next to her son and while the baby scrambles to crawl from her lap, she begins pulling the paper backing from a piece of tinfoil, readying the foil for a smoke. Her hands are a whir of finger-flashing activity?assembling and disassembling a lighter, unclogging the pipe, unwrapping the tablets, straightening the foil, lighting the speed and then taking the hit. She exhales finally, blowing smoke just over her baby's face. Bing asks his mother...
...point I ask Yee if she ever tells Bing he should stop smoking yaba. "I tell him he shouldn't do so much, that it's bad for him. But he doesn't listen." Perhaps she lacks credibility, since she smokes herself? "I don't smoke that much," she insists. "She's right," Bing agrees. "Since she doesn't smoke that much, I should listen to her." "And he's only 15 years old," Yee adds. Bing reminds her he's 17. "I don't know where the years go," Yee says, taking another...
...Bing puts it: "I can stop using speed anytime I want, but I can never stay stopped...
...walk away. And while I hope Jacky and Bing and Big can one day do the same, I doubt they ever can. They have so little to walk toward...
Even today, some cadres remain unconvinced by the mansion's art-deco touches. "I'm not sure the building has enough historical value to keep it from being demolished," sniffs He Bing, a park project manager. A blueprint of what Shanghai's new urban heart will look like in five months is taped above his head. On it, the Pei house is gone. The only building that emerges unscathed is a nondescript gray affair that once housed the office of a Communist Party magazine. "Now, that building has real history," says He. The Pei home may house a family...