Looking back at my 2011 blog posts, I'm drawn to a handful of old scanned photos I came across this year. Scanning my mother's and her family's old slides was like opening a jewelry box full of sparkling diamond necklaces. These photos were all taken in Asia in 1965.Angkor … [Read more...]
Jailed writers in China
So today is the 56th birthday of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. It's a bittersweet birthday, I'm sure, for a number of reasons.First, he's currently serving an 11 year prison sentence that's not due to end until 2020. And just last week two more Chinese writer/activists … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy
My holiday season has been nice and quiet, allowing me to plow through a few novels and memoirs since my kids went on break 10 days ago. One memoir I recently finished was Ma Thanegi's Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy (ThingsAsian Press, 2010).The title refers to the defiles … [Read more...]
Black Christmas: the 70th anniversary of the Fall of Hong Kong
Christmas in Hong Kong meant something else this year: the 70th anniversary of the fall of Hong Kong, otherwise known as Black Christmas.Fighting broke out on December 8, 1941 and ended with British Hong Kong surrendering to the Japanese on Christmas Day 70 years ago--in the … [Read more...]
Chinese Christmas
Stuart Beaton writes about Christmas and China and how people celebrate--and what exactly it is that they're celebrating. (Check out Stuart's podcasts at http://rastous.podomatic.com/). Without further adieu, here's Stu:China may be a “Country of Godless heathens”, but they … [Read more...]
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