Lan's Photo Show: Self

Exhortation on Filial Piety

---------Being an interpretive translation of a poem in Mei's Restaurant in Fredericton.

Who can be dearer than our parents?
Who else deserves our filial piety?
A drop of respect paid to our parents
Invites a sea of love from our posterity

Someday one may become a millionaire
Yet his parents are not readily bought
Parents enjoying centennials are rare
Negligence of duty leads to sad thought

Why not serve them when they are healthy?
Why wait and then visit their lonely grave?
Harsh words do make our parents unhappy
They can't be recalled when buried in a cave.

Then one has no way to see one's mother
His repenting soul will forever linger

Working in the Countryside 1975-76


As a Graduate Student and Worshiper of Noam Chomsky(his portrait drawn by myself) 1983


I Looked Better in China than in North America. At Ning's Home


With Friends of the Free Souls Club in Beijing


Acting in Amazing Panda Adventure 1994, Jiuzhaigou


A Holy Touch of the Olympic Spirit


No "-Ism" Can Do Without Commercialism. At a Food Market, 1996


With Hispanic Dancers, 1996


Long Live the Friendship Between the Peoples of China and India!

International

Earth is held in this hall
With her dwellers here and there
The fair-skinned, the dark-skinned, the brown-skinned
The believers, the believe-nots
The Chinese, the Anglo-Saxon, the Africans, the Indians
The Koreans, The Thai, the Vietnamese, the Ukrainian
The Europeans, the South Americans, the Pacific islanders...
Today, we speak one Lingua Franca
And eat from the same plate
Putting world news
Behind our mind
Wishing to hear
Something good
Like the harmony of piano keys
Or the fierce coordination of Karate
Or the rhythmic discourse of Hindu poem


China and Korea Are As Intimate As Teeth and Lips, but let us not just refer to North Korea. With an American Korean


China and Japan Should Be Friends Generations and Generations! With a Japanese Student

Yayoi Hamada, a haiku

Her fair-skined face is
Like the snowy marble jade
Still in deep water

滨田弥生?#060;

清秀的脸庞, 白雪一般的玉石,如镜影沉璧.

Me in Fredericton, Fall 1997


Always Want to Live In the Past. With a Tour Guide in Fredericton 1997


I Am Always a Roamer

At the Old Arts Building 1996. Mao's Poem Inscribed by Me


In Montreal, 1998.7.14


In Montreal 1998.7.14



Note the Size of the Horses. At W. Quaco 1998


I Was a Pig Herder in 1975. Fredericton, 1997


At UNB 1997


The Sea Was Too Cold, But A Photo Was OK. Brown's Beach 1997


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2005, 5.15