蚕：北京重生记

Reincarnation in Beijing By Long Ling Translated from the Chinese by Jonathan Flint The restaurant is still there. Cars line both sides of the street, so I have to park a block away. I am carrying a five-foot pole and a pair of scissors in a plastic bag. It is the spring of 2019, and the only clue as to where I am heading was posted on the internet years ago: “In the northwest corner of the Garden Bridge on the West Third Ring Road, there are two mulberry trees to the north of a restaurant.” The buildings on either side of the restaurant have been rebuilt, and there is now a new road to its north. …