Harvey Thomlinson

The weakness had probably always been there, waiting to strike. There had been early symptoms, a forgotten attack years ago, a moment of violence seldom mentioned as a young student began what promised to be an exceptional career. From a humble Guangdong family which ran a shop on the outskirts of Shenzhen, he worked hard […]

A friend received the call which always comes too soon. Somewhere in the Chinese countryside her 70 year old dad was dying. She got a train to the county town where he was being cared for in a rural hospital. Some type of pneumonia, perhaps, as he had to breathe through a tube. His unspecified