When I was researching Shanghai for a manuscript that's now been put on hold, I turned to guidebooks from the periods for which I was writing. As a guidebook author myself, I find them to be somewhat telling of the times in which they take place. In Good Chinese Wife, I didn't … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
Last night I saw this amazing play set in London 20 years ago. It centers around a murder in a public bathroom involving a Chinese man and his white partner. The play touches upon identity, acceptance, and what it's like to feel invisible in a diverse city like London. … [Read more...]
Interview with author Kelli Estes
I am beyond thrilled to interview author Kelli Estes, whose novel The Girl Who Wrote in Silk (Sourcebooks Landmark, 2015) just came out yesterday. I absolutely adore her book because it has everything I love in a novel: a couple of love stories involving Chinese and non-Chinese … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Little White Duck
This summer I've been plowing through young adult graphic novels with a Chinese theme, but most of them are a bit too violent or over the heads of my little kids, age 6 and 8. So today I went to our public library to see if I could find any middle grade graphic novels set in … [Read more...]
Three-book giveaway!
I am so incredibly excited to share this giveaway for three new memoirs written by American women who live and found love in Asia. Shannon Young's Year of Fire Dragons takes place in Hong Kong, while Tracy Slater's The Good Shufu and Leza Lowitz's Here Comes the Sun take place in … [Read more...]
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