PAIR with Langston Hughes “I, Too”
Li Bai poem 300 cups of wine https://eastasiastudent.net/china/classical/li-bai-jiang-jin-jiu/
Li Po “Drinking Alone by Moonlight” http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/world_civ/worldcivreader/world_civ_reader_1/drink.html
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“JP” Ch 9
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Table discussion Thought Questions, LCD
“Grandmama died” p162
Sek-Lung seven years old
insight into Poh-Poh’s childhood “My juggler… never came
back” p163
*the title of the novel, “the precious Jade Peony” p164 READ
SENTENCE
“she and Sek-Lung poke through garbage” p164
- like a magpie, likes shiny things
“what was appropriate in a poor village in China was shameful
here” p165
“she was inconvenient, unsettling” p165
“Grandmama… harmlessly crazy”
crazy – mental illness
“make lovely toys… Why?”
juggler – love of her life
“stories… of the juggler… flashed in my head” p165
“searching for splendid junk” p165
“this Mandarin only confuses us. We are Cantonese speakers” p167
“now in a scientific, logical world”
Father “wanted his children to have both the old ways and the
new ways”
“troubling talk about old and new ways should stop”
“the waving motion of her ghost chimes” p168
“my body fighting with Death”
“the small peony of white and light-read jade, her most lucky
possession” p169
“This colour is the colour of my spirit” (169)
“given to me by the young acrobat”
“it held the unravelling strands of her memory”
“her last windchime”
“Not a sound… until I have died” p170
“That was not a cat” p171
cat and juggler “pale as white jade, and… pink eyes” p171
juggler was an albino, no pigment in their skin, eyes, or hair
“basement of St. Paul’s hospital, where the sick Chinese were
allowed to stay” p172
“lifted the windchimes”
READ FINAL PARAGRAPH
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