回到晴川里 — Back to Qingchuan Lane

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老陈

自从搬走以后，我一次都没回来过，今天要不是你们叫我，我还是不敢来。你们看，后面几排全都没了，只剩下沿街的那几栋房子，外面还围着脚手架。这哪儿还像我们的晴川里？

Zìcóng bānzǒu yǐhòu, wǒ yí cì dōu méi huílai guo, jīntiān yàobúshì nǐmen jiào wǒ, wǒ háishi bù gǎn lái. Nǐmen kàn, hòumian jǐ pái quándōu méi le, zhǐ shèngxià yánjiē de nà jǐ dòng fángzi, wàimiàn hái wéi zhe jiǎoshǒujià. Zhè nǎr hái xiàng wǒmen de Qíngchuān Lǐ?

Since I moved out I haven't been back once — if you hadn't asked me today, I still wouldn't have dared come. Look: the rows behind are all gone, only those few buildings along the street are left, with scaffolding around them. How is this still our Qingchuan Lane?

苏小雨

区里说沿街那一排明年夏天改成社区文化中心。可是围墙里面，整条弄堂已经是一片平地了，连地上的石板路都被挖掉了。我站在这里，都找不到我们家原来的位置。

Qū li shuō yánjiē nà yì pái míngnián xiàtiān gǎichéng shèqū wénhuà zhōngxīn. Kěshì wéiqiáng lǐmiàn, zhěng tiáo lòngtáng yǐjīng shì yí piàn píngdì le, lián dì shang de shíbǎnlù dōu bèi wādiào le. Wǒ zhàn zài zhèli, dōu zhǎo bu dào wǒmen jiā yuánlái de wèizhi.

The district says the street-front row will become the community cultural center next summer. But inside the hoarding, the whole lane is already flat ground — even the stone paving has been dug up. Standing here, I can't even find where our house used to be.

回到晴川里 Huídào Qíngchuān Lǐ — Back to Qingchuan Lane

Returning to a demolished neighborhood

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Returning to a demolished neighborhood