I asked her to stay in with me, but she would go out.

In live shows, he’s been known to climb atop amps midsolo and pogo exuberantly around the stage in BLK DNM leather pants, his hair a half-undercut, half-mad-Hokusai wave.

The KMT’s act of self-humiliation is reminiscent of what happened in 1948, when it was being buffeted by the storm of the Chinese Civil War. In January of that year, a group of KMT members established the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (中國國民黨革命委員會), which supported the CCP’s call, as one of its “May Day slogans,” to establish a democratic coalition government. In so doing, the committee sent a friendly message to the CCP. Today, the committee is a subordinate organization of the CCP, with its headquarters on humble Donghuangchenggen S Street in Beijing’s Dongcheng District (東城).

The lambers sometimes brought their friends and acquaintances to see the view and relax in what must have seemed a bohemian atmosphere.