The first year I lived in Hong Kong, I traveled almost two hours (each way) on Saturdays to teach English to a Japanese housewife and her two children.Mrs. Yoshizawa paid me well, but also cooked me a delicious Japanese lunch after our lessons were over for the day.They … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Excess Baggage
There are some books that just speak to me. Karen Ma's debut novel, Excess Baggage (China Books, 2013) does just that.In the early 1960s, a woman named Yan has a chance to follow her husband Yiwen to Hong Kong from northern China. The catch is that she can only take two of … [Read more...]
Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang
Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang is a woman after my own heart. She first traveled to China in 1986 (when this photo was taken) at the age of 19 to study in Tianjin for a summer. Although she was reading Chinese at Oxford, her friends back in the UK thought she was crazy to go off to such … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
Tomorrow marks four months until my publication date! It's hard to believe it's just around the corner.One of the supporting characters is my friend Jean, who I call Janice in the book. We both moved from Washington, DC to Hong Kong 20 years ago. I still remember the day … [Read more...]
Leaving Hong Kong
I was driving my youngest to school this afternoon when it suddenly dawned on me that today was February 26th. It's not a date I think about every year (like my birthday or wedding anniversary). In fact, years have passed when I haven't thought about it at all.But something … [Read more...]
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