Courtney Han visits her ancestral home in China My Dad grew up in a small fishing village about two hours northwest of Shanghai. His stories about his hometown sound more like Mount Olympus than a poor Chinese village with a flooding problem. According to him, nowhere else in the universe was the air as sweet, the trees as lush and the jade-toned water as beautiful as in the laojia. I was born in Beijing, where my mother’s family lived, and moved to the US when I was five. My father’s e...
