This week I read the much talked about debut thriller from Lisa Brackmann, Rock Paper Tiger (Soho Press, 2010).Soho Press has been great to authors who write about China. They've published the edgy mysteries by Xiaolong Qiu and Aisling Juan Juan Shen's riveting memoir, A … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2010
Border crossings
I love this old postcard of the China-Hong Kong border. Lord knows I crossed it more times than I can count.But when this photo was taken in the 1960s, the border seemed romantic. A different time, that's for sure.When I disembarked the train at Lowu, I walked into the … [Read more...]
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