Articles by Barbara Rendall
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Old Sugar
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Barbara Rendall is a Canadian writer currently living in Beijing. Earlier, she lived in Macao, a fascinating city near Hong Kong, which is the setting of this story. She has published poetry in a variety of North American magazines and short fiction in Chatelaine and Redbook.
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Old Sugar 2
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Nothing says welcome like coming home to one's mother ...
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Old Sugar 3
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Trevor, stinging after his mother's "welcome," must now face his Aunt, Granny, and his obnoxious cousins ...
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Old Sugar 4
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Trevor's bed will be his Auntie's couch, his food whatever the family can spare. Having lost his income, what choice does he have?
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Old Sugar 5
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Staying with Aunt Cookie is all right -- unless you have grown accustomed to having your own bed and a bathroom door that shuts ...
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Old Sugar 6
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Is it an ill omen that Trevor would rather do laundry than have to visit the foreigners?
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Old Sugar 7
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Surely Trevor is going to wake up and find it has all been a dream ...
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Old Sugar 8
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Conclusion. When you've raced to find wealth and modernity, what will you have seen of the journey?
Serial
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The Twinning
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A city in Canada, and a city in China -- so far apart, yet with so very much in common! Becoming sister cities should be the easiest thing in the world ...
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The Twinning 2
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Shanghai -- so modern, so westernized -- made the travelers feel right at home. How could any modern, worldly Canadian call China a "foreign" country? Yutian is going to be a great sister city ...
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The Twinning 3
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Getting used to a new climate is a challenge, but cultural shock begins at the table...
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The Twinning 4
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Hints of economic growth are all around the delegation as they tour Yutian, but behind the scenes, a mysterious land looms, and a way of life that none of them has ever experienced ...
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The Twinning 5
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A tour bus visiting a village is a source of income for the inhabitants, but what will they make of a tour bus in distress blocking a road?
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The Twinning 6
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The Canadian guests are venturing out on their own, and seeing China differently -- once they are willing to remove the distorting lenses of preconception...
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The Twinning 7
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There are a lot of sensitive questions the delegation wants to ask -- and Trish has come halfway around the world and can't escape one one of them.
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The Twinning 8
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The great honor of being invited to a banquet at the top of Great Wisdom Hill is extended to the Canadian delegates. Trish, in her slow ascent up the mountain, may come to understand its name...
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The Twinning 9
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A farewell banquet for their last evening in Yutian: beautiful music, exotic food, kind words -- and a diplomatic incident?
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The Twinning 10
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Conclusion. With souvenirs and Chinese presents packed in their bags, the delegation prepares to return to Canada. And they will carry with them another gift from China ...
Essay
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Being a Writer
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This article originated as a talk given at the Creative Writing Forum sponsored by Renmin University Press, Beijing, China, July 13-15, 2016.