Friday, June 27, 2008

Chapter 5: Shanghai

*tell history of Timor and parallel events in America, Africa, Europe, China, etc...'while the Portuguese were (blank), the Pilgrims were (blank).

Thubron met a vicar who says the past will never repeat - this has become a story of hope?

visited a prison - the prisoners were happy there

another difference from PCVs is a job - they have one - the traveler writer's is only to write

mental institution - Chinese 'internalize' everything

pg 158-161: Thubron saw something in paintings by those inside - things the doctors seemed to look over - a naked woman indifferently holding a tiny man in her hand

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