I love train travel. One of the train systems I've frequented the most is the Kowloon-Canton Railway.The KCR, as it's known in Hong Kong, opened 101 years ago in British Hong Kong. A year later, it linked up with a line in China to the city of Canton (present day Guangzhou … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Girl from Foreign
Last week I read a fabulous memoir titled The Girl from Foreign by Sadia Shepard (Penguin, 2009).I've read a bit of fiction set in India, but haven't found many memoirs. Shepard has such an interesting and complicated family history that India here serves more as a backdrop … [Read more...]
Remembering the Kowloon Walled City
Weeks ago I gave my son Martin Booth's memoir, Gweilo (Bantam, 2005) about growing up in Hong Kong in the 1950s. He just reached the part when Booth ventures into the Kowloon Walled City. When he asked about the Walled City, I rushed over to my bookshelf and plucked out a … [Read more...]
TST through the ages
To the untrained ear, it's the most difficult name to pronounce in Hong Kong.Tsim Sha Tsui. Or Tsimshatsui.Many call it Chim Sha Chewy. Or TST. Some just abandon the name and refer to it as Kowloon. (In my bad Cantonese, I pronounce it as Jim Sa Joy, slurring the last … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Sugarless Plum
Besides reading, writing, and traveling, I also love ballet. From the age of five until twenty-one, I took ballet classes on three occasions, never advancing above advanced beginner. Needless to say, I enjoy it now as an observer.So last week I read Zippora Karz's ballet … [Read more...]
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