Borneo. 1991.My mother and I traveled to four cities in Malaysia on this trip: Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Malacca, and Kuching on the island of Borneo.I wasn't really about to get my leg cut off. We were at a local show where they asked for tourist participation. … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Ballad of a Small Player
I'm not usually into ghost stories or supernatural ones, but the Hong Kong and Macau settings of Lawrence Osborne's new novel sealed the deal for me. I loved The Ballad of a Small Player (Random House, 2014) and even the ghost part worked for me.Lord Doyle is a great … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
The first year I lived in Hong Kong, I traveled almost two hours (each way) on Saturdays to teach English to a Japanese housewife and her two children.Mrs. Yoshizawa paid me well, but also cooked me a delicious Japanese lunch after our lessons were over for the day.They … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Excess Baggage
There are some books that just speak to me. Karen Ma's debut novel, Excess Baggage (China Books, 2013) does just that.In the early 1960s, a woman named Yan has a chance to follow her husband Yiwen to Hong Kong from northern China. The catch is that she can only take two of … [Read more...]
Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang
Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang is a woman after my own heart. She first traveled to China in 1986 (when this photo was taken) at the age of 19 to study in Tianjin for a summer. Although she was reading Chinese at Oxford, her friends back in the UK thought she was crazy to go off to such … [Read more...]
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