I'm thrilled to interview Hong Kong-based writer, Shannon Young. Her blog is one of my favorites, and I've found so many similarities in our China and Hong Kong experiences. She and I both traveled to Beijing with our fathers when we were in college; we both moved to Hong Kong … [Read more...]
Guest post–Shannon Young on Hong Kong and the Beijing Olympics
I'm thrilled to feature a guest post by writer Shannon Young today! Shannon is American, lives in Hong Kong, and has just published a novella-sized travelogue about the 2008 Beijing Olympics. With the 2012 London games just a month away, it's hard to believe four years have … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Midnight in Peking
This spring Midnight in Peking (Penguin, 2012) by Paul French was one of the most highly anticipated books among expat circles in Hong Kong and China. And as luck would have it, the Kindle version came out the night I arrived in Hong Kong. I was in the middle of something else, … [Read more...]
In my grandma’s loo
When my brother and I were just kids, we locked ourselves in our grandparents' small powder room. The lock was just beneath the knob, and one of us had secured it without knowing how. We were trapped. From the other side of the door, my grandfather screamed at us for ten minutes … [Read more...]
Lychees on a hot summer day
Today was a scorcher in Chicago. 95F and 35C. And there was very little food in the house.So in the early hours of the morning, before the sun came out in full force, I took my two youngest kids grocery shopping. The store carried a small selection of tropical fruit, so I … [Read more...]
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