It's hard to believe that 20 years ago today I landed in Hong Kong to start a new life.My flight took me from Chicago to Seoul to Hong Kong. By the time I arrived at the YMCA (where I'd booked three nights) around midnight on 11 June 1994, I was jet-lagged and disoriented … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
Gasp. It's been a whole 20 years since I moved back to Hong Kong to start a new chapter, one that I expected to last a long time. Like forever.It was the second weekend in June 1994 that I boarded a KAL flight to Seoul, transferring to Hong Kong and taking a taxi to the … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Singapore Noir
There's something about Asia and noir that I can't resist. Maybe it's gory front pages of tabloid papers in normally safe cities like Hong Kong or the dichotomy between sin and sainthood in Bangkok. But whatever it is, it works in Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan's Singapore Noir (Akashic, … [Read more...]
Nicki Chen
Nicki Chen has lived in places most of us can only dream about: verdant Washington State, where she grew up and now makes her home, but also the tropics of the Philippines and the South Pacific.Her late husband grew up on a little known island in China called Gulangyu, which … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
With just under two months until the publication date of GOOD CHINESE WIFE, I thought I'd post this photo of my wedding rings from that marriage.I actually just recovered these rings after tucking them under a bathroom sink for seven years and completely forgetting what I'd … [Read more...]
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