I was the visiting assistant professor of Chinese at Kenyon College (Ohio) in the late 1980s - early 1990s. I spent the summer of 1988 in Beijing as a visiting professor at the Foreign Languages Normal College. The college was close to some of the wonderful old alleyways (hutong) in Beijing. Some years later I painted this oil painting of one of the nearby alleys. I also had a show in Mount Vernon in 2008 featuring other alleyway paintings of old Beijing that I subsequently made.