Lost in China.

DEAR CHONGQING, To address a letter to a city of any kind is folly. To send a letter to a metropolis of your immensity -- 32 million residents! -- shows, as we say here in New York, chutzpah. Also it's a bit weird. And yet I'm writing anyway, because I don't quite know how else to get a handle on the six days I spent with you in October -- six days in which I felt embraced and ignored, beloved and rejected, entrapped and, in the end, liberated. Please let me explain: [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]