Last week I read Michael Meyer's new memoir, The Road to Sleeping Dragon (Bloomsbury, 2017). I really enjoyed his first two narrative/memoirs about Beijing and Manchuria. This one recaps some of those, but goes more into his early years in China when he arrived in Sichuan with … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
We had our first snow of the year today! This was on my walk through Chinatown after volunteering at the senior center this morning. … [Read more...]
Whatever happened to old Kai Tak?
When my mom first traveled to Hong Kong in 1962, this passenger terminal at Kai Tak was new and so modern. I saw airports in Southeast Asia thirty years later that didn't come close to this. My mom's family would fly in and out of Kai Tak for much of the sixties, seventies, and … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Start, Love, Repeat
Today is the publication date of my agent-sister, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun's debut book, Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love With Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-Up World (Center Street, 2018). I've known about her book deal for a while now and have loved following her … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
Back in August, I was in Hong Kong and while I normally wouldn't go to the Hard Rock, I did go there with my friends for book research. We cooled off at the bar and couldn't believe we'd only been in Hong Kong for about 15 hours at that point. It seemed like 15 days, but in a … [Read more...]
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