Artwork by Alysa Wu from United World College of South East Asia, Singapore Artwork by Alysa Wu from United World College of South East Asia, Singapore
Written by Yixuan (Eason) Liu from Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School, Shanghai, China Where I live, autumn typically arrives through storms. This year’s autumn, as if making up for its sudden entrance, has been unusually, uncharacteristically gentle. The murderous summer sun that hung above Shanghai is now overthrown, and the world lets out a long sigh of relief in the cool breeze. Summer wind is not really wind, but a ripple of heat, like air around an open oven. Autumn’