Blue Seas, Mulberry Fields

Born in the walled family enclave or siheyuan built by his father, Weijie braved through, and later watched from afar in America, the existential evanescence of life in the city of his birth. All that is encapsulated in the ancient saying: "BLUE SEAS, MULBERRY FIELDS" (????)? He had witnessed the successive ends to the epochal colors of the place: the brilliant yellow of the imperial age; the imposing red wall-boards of the revolutionary era; and the stern grey of the outer walls of the siheyuans that dominated the landscape throughout the city. Weijie's existence thus was part and parcel of this tale of three cities in one: Peking-Peiping-Beijing.