I just finished reading Chan Sui-jeung's East River Column: Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and After (Hong Kong University Press, 2009) and have a new appreciation for the brave men and women of Hong Kong and southern China during and after the war.Hong Kong is … [Read more...]
Mission to Metro
When I think of all the changes in China since I left in the late 90s, one that stands out is the advent of the warehouse grocery store. That was so not the case back in my day. So here's Stuart Beaton, our man in Tianjin, to explain just how great the shopping in China has … [Read more...]
Shanghai surprise postscript
Since my post from a couple days ago when I wrote about learning that my grandfather's cousin had fled Germany for Shanghai in 1939, I've found some more information about this cousin and his circumstances.My grandfather's uncle Karl in Germany had two children, Julius and … [Read more...]
A slow boat to Shanghai
Have you ever had a moment where everything seemed to fall into place? I'm not talking about the day to day routines, but the larger picture.On Friday night, a genealogist cousin e-mailed me about our relatives who left Germany in the late 1930s. She mentioned one named … [Read more...]
Book of the week–All that I Am
Last night I stayed up late to finish Anna Funder's debut novel, All That I Am (Harper, 2012), even though the rest of my family was sound asleep upstairs.I couldn't put the book down and ploughed through it in three days, averaging 130 pages a day.Funder's novel, based … [Read more...]
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