EAST SIDE STORY: An Oriental Courtship Scenario Shanghai dude slick pocket phone stylish shaolin monk cigarette smo- king Bruce Lee wit h steel-tinted sunglasses hi ding a hyper-hormoned drive. Credit cards waiting kung fu muscles prepared – this guy is ready for roman- tic battle & trumpery with flair. There she is! A cover girl model in mandarin orange lipstick strolling past a Buddhist statue. As eyes meet sirens screech horns honk & advertisements blink a ritual older than the Yellow River itself starts again. ===================================================================================== from _Pan-Asian Pulses: Poetry, Art, and Dialogs about Asia_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: An image and poem about mating rituals in modern China. KEYWORDS: Asian dating, Chinese courtship, romantic rituals, Asian poetry Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 1994 in Shizuoka, Japan ≜ Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/hainan.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/allthings.htm