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September 24th 2012

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with pots, bottles, medicines, ashtrays
(so he will never go hungry,
thirsty, nicotine-craving, or sick),
and an old-fashioned clock ticking
still like his heartbeat…

By Qiu Xiaolong, photo by Howard French

Ian Johnson, Shanghai: The Vigor in the Decay

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with pots, bottles, medicines, ashtrays (so he will never go hungry, thirsty, nicotine-craving, or sick), and an old-fashioned clock ticking still like his heartbeat… By Qiu Xiaolong, photo by Howard French Ian Johnson, Shanghai: The Vigor in the Decay
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