Calvin’s Birthday Bash: Day 3

I was studying abroad in China in the late 1990’s when I first heard witnessed a breathtaking live performance of an erhu , an ancient Chinese bowed two-string instrument whose origins date back more than a thousand years. It was breathtakingly beautiful and haunting. You can watch a stirring erhu performance by Yu Hongmei. Because I am half-Chinese (with some Japanese thrown in for good measure), I want our son to grow up with an appreciation for his cultural heritage throug

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