Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 12 | Page 567

1949-NEWS REPORT
In the house next to the shop, we heard the news report.”This is Beijing Television. Welcome all Chinese
people. Yesterday, the Communists started controlling Shanghai. Communists said Shanghai is taken by a
“peaceful manner”, but one of the first things they needed to do was to kill people considered to be
“counter-revolutionaries”. Hundreds and hundreds of people were executed. Now they are planning to turn the
Canidrome from a stadium to an execution facility called ‘The Shanghai Enlarged Joint Meeting of People's
Representatives' Conference’.
What? I thought. A stadium into an EXECUTION FACILITY? Actually, I heard of the Canidrome when I
was young. My dad went to Shanghai to work for a month when I was three, he told me that he had a chance to
be a guest of a show. It was located in the Shanghai Culture Square, which is the Canidrome. He told me it was a
park in 2003, but it was demolished in the year before I was born (2005).
Suddenly we heard a sound of something collapsing. Was it the shop or the one next to us? I peeked outside.
It was
1912-DEMOLISHED
“We are in the year 1912!”I said to Max.”By the 20th century, the city wall wa