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.