It is also the spirit of the China of the 1930s, which might be expressed in the stage gestures and expressions of a female character in traditional opera, the posture of my mother's generation when serving tea, or the expression in old photographs of [recently deceased novelist] Eileen Chang [whose works were largely set in 1930s Shanghai].
它同時也是中國三○年代的韻味，可能是戲台上青衣的一個手勢、眼神，或我母親那一代端茶的姿勢、張愛玲老照片裡的神情，他們都有一種靜定之美。