Student life at Chinese universities can be very different from that at American colleges and universities. This picture was taken just outside of the faculty apartment where I lived during my semester of teaching music at the Shanghai Normal University. The students would be out on the basketball courts in front of the high-rise dorms visible in the background. And yes, those are various meats hanging on the line strung along inside the fence surrounding the court. I never did quite figure out who was responsible for producing this odd juxtaposition of “food and fun”, but every week there seemed to be some sort of animal protein – cow, fish, pig, chicken, pigeon, or some such, hanging out in the Shanghai air.