![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bbc70a_dea7dcbf63a5403f8a8fd8cfcfa16ba6~mv2_d_2367_1709_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_180,al_c,q_90,enc_auto/bbc70a_dea7dcbf63a5403f8a8fd8cfcfa16ba6~mv2_d_2367_1709_s_2.jpg) With her parents on the veranda of their home just before the onset of the Cultural Revolution. The flowers behind them would soon be uprooted and destroyed as they were condemned to be “poisonous bourgeois weeds.” The unfortunate transformation of the Pushkin Statue erected in the 1937 French Concession to the “open-air garbage dump reeking of ammoniac odors of human urine, stray cat excrement and other offensive olfactory stimulants” (Memoirs of a Eurasian) reflects a similar situation. | ![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bbc70a_1a9e8216e931482abe463654ad6450b7.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_187,al_c,q_90,enc_auto/bbc70a_1a9e8216e931482abe463654ad6450b7.jpg) Literary Mentor, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists: Helping multi-disciplinary immigrant artists navigate New York’s diverse cultural landscape and challenging publishing terrain through volunteer work and the generous sharing of ideas, advice, and experiences. | ![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bbc70a_c687ba8f179d4889855517fc750caac7.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_200,al_c,q_90,enc_auto/bbc70a_c687ba8f179d4889855517fc750caac7.jpg) "This is perhaps the only rose garden left in Shanghai,” laments Uncle Fly in Memoirs of a Eurasian. Here is the five-year-old Vivian smelling the roses at that famed French Public Garden (now Fuxing Park, modeled after the Jardin du Luxembourg) near her home at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. |
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