GLOBETROTTING ICON OF CHINESE YOUTH
“Don’t ask me where I’m from,” opens the song ‘Olive Tree’, a folksy Chinese language ballad covered time and again since the late 1970s. “My home is far away…” The song is at once melancholic and hopeful, a rumination on place and belonging by a writer who professes to be rootless and wandering. While extolling the beauty of nature, the few verses manage to convey the ethereal and the illusory. The lyrics reveal a little of
