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Share Taiwan, 1965 Last year I came across this postcard from my grandparents to my great-grandma. They sent it from Taiwan in 1965. In the postcard, my grandma wrote to her mother-in-law: We are here at airport to leave free China. Just said goodbye to Judy [my mom]. She goes to Manila this afternoon — [...] Share Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet: On a slow boat from Shanghai to Texas Over the weekend I read Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet: On a slow boat from Shanghai to Texas (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) by Gillian Kendall. It’s a short read, about 240 quick pages and kept my attention from start to finish. Kendall [...] Share Wan Chai, Hong Kong I checked e-mail first thing this morning, as I do every day, and was excited to see an alert from The New York Times, informing me of an article in today’s paper about Hong Kong. So when I clicked on the link and saw the article was from the travel [...] Share Chinese character for "spring" In Chicago we celebrated the last official day of winter with temperatures in the high 60s, plenty of sunshine, and tulip leaves sprouting through thawed soil. But alas, as most Chicago springs go, a wintry mix of snow and wind is in the weekend forecast. When I first heard the [...] Share I just finished Kitchen Chinese (Avon, 2010), Ann Mah’s debut novel and boy am I hungry. My husband bought fixings for Moroccan chicken tonight, so at least we’re spicing things up. (We did have Chinese last night!) The thing I loved about Kitchen Chinese was that it went beyond food. The subtitle reads “A Novel [...] |
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