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...]
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...]
Tahitian hotels, 1960s & 1970s
I know I haven't exactly raved about my trip to Tahiti in the late 80s, but my grandparents loved the many vacations they took there.When I was young, I traipsed around the house wearing multiple strands of necklaces my grandparents bought in Tahiti, the tiny brown and white … [Read more...]
Golden Crown, Hong Kong
When my grandma brought over a box of matchbooks from her travels last month, I found one from a Hong Kong restaurant called the Golden Crown.I'd never heard of it.With a Nathan Road address in Tsim Sha Tsui, it must have closed by the time I got to Hong Kong in the 90s. … [Read more...]
Where East is West
I found this ad for Japanese tourism in a 1981 magazine targeted to American airline employees.The guy in the photo really seems to be trying: dressing in yukata, staying at a Japanese inn, and reading Shogun (on my first couple of trips to Asia, I read James Clavell novels … [Read more...]
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