In the spirit of the last days of the December shopping frenzy, I thought I'd blog about one of my favorite pastimes: shopping in Hong Kong!People have said its heyday as a shopper's paradise is long gone, but I disagree. Prices might not be super inexpensive anymore, but … [Read more...]
Good Chinese Wife will be translated into Italian!
Last week I learned that the Italian publisher Newton Compton has bought the rights to translate Good Chinese Wife into Italian!This is my first foreign rights deal and I am beyond excited about it. I assume the publisher will create their own cover to appeal to the … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Japanese Lover
I was drawn to Isabel Allende's new novel, The Japanese Lover (Atria, 2015) because it sounded a lot like one of my favorite novels, Dana Sachs' The Secret of the Nightingale Palace (William Morrow, 2013).Both stories take place in the present and around WWII. Both star a … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
Here's another photo from my walk through Kowloon City and the area where Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport used to stand.It's funny how I used to walk through this park quite often in my 20s, but never stopped to appreciate it back then. I guess I was always in a hurry, either … [Read more...]
A night with CASL
I've had so much fun this autumn volunteering with the Chinese American Service League in Chicago. I started teaching English to two classes of senior citizens and have recently added a craft class. My kids have gone with me a couple times. We even made a local Chinese newspaper … [Read more...]
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