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Before the Flood | Issue 52 | n+1 | Han Zhang

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I always got moody on Sunday afternoons when I woke up from a long nap and it was already dark outside, as if I had wasted the only Sunday of my life. I had a hunch that six years of elementary school was really an escalator with a starting point but no end. I told my mom I couldn’t picture myself in junior high or high school. She was appalled, taking my comments as a fatalistic premonition of premature death.

Reviews Han Zhang On Jia Zhangke Still from Caught by the Tides. Jia Zhangke (director). Caught by the Tides. 2024. The earliest trips I remember taking were to my maternal grandparents’ house. It was the mid-’90s; I couldn’t have been more than 3 or 4 years old. My parents and I lived in an apartment in Nanjing, the provincial capital. Grandpa and Grandma lived in a small town north of where the Yangtze River meets the Pacific Ocean. They had a yard that wrapped around their one-story house. Using their bathroom was stressful — it was located behind the main house, and to get there I…

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