Xu and his wife both love movies but haven't seen many lately. We especially like French mysteries and English comedies, like ' The Lavender Hill Mob' with Alec Guinness. We'd like to go to the theater, especially to see Tom Stoppard or Samuel Beckett. We'd like to go to the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera. We hadn't heard classical music until college and soaked it up like sponges.
China has an unbroken tradition of great literature.
I want to read Chinese novels and poetry again, 19th-century English novels and contemporary novels from all over the world. I feel behind. A friend asked me if I work out. I want to spend more time in the Sichuan exhibit. It is such a pleasure and a privilege to see these objects.