This slide sends chills down my spine and brings tears to my eyes.My mom took this photo in 1965 at the Royal Palace in Cambodia. It looks like any other summer day in Phnom Penh. And it probably was. But 10 short years later, that would all change.The local men and … [Read more...]
Angkor Wat, 1965
I'm so excited I can barely sit still. While most of America was out shopping today on Black Friday (the kick-off to winter holiday gift buying), I relaxed at home with two of my three kids and some good friends (my older son is in the city with Lao Lao, the Chinese name for … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving Hong Kong style
As I clean the house before 24 relatives descend upon our small kitchen tomorrow, I can't help but think back to celebrating Thanksgiving abroad.Twenty years ago I spent my first overseas Thanksgiving. I was studying at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (photo on left) and … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
When I read about Eileen Chang's translation (with much editing from Eva Hung) of The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai (Columbia University Press, 2007) by Han Bangqing, I naturally added it to my list of books to read. And that's what I finished last week.I was interested in … [Read more...]
Macao dining room, Sheraton Chicago
Yesterday I posted a card from the Saigon dining room in the old Sheraton Chicago. Today I found a postcard of another dining room in the kitschy Kon-Tiki Ports concept, also at the Sheraton Chicago.Meet Macao.I'm enthralled by the dark, opium den/Chinese curio shop … [Read more...]
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