Last week I picked up Paul Reyes' memoir, Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida's Great Recession (Henry Holt, 2010).I went to college with Reyes. And while we didn't know one another, I can still picture him sitting in the cafeteria with a group of mutual friends, … [Read more...]
Wuhan street food
Last week I boiled up some tang yuan for the 15th day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, otherwise known as the Lantern Festival.I meant to post something about tang yuan, or gooey chewy rice flour balls filled with red bean, black sesame, or peanut paste. But I ducked out the … [Read more...]
An evening with Amy Chua
With all the hype centered around Amy Chua's new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Penguin, 2011), I jumped at the chance to hear her live last week.The Chicago Tribune sponsored the event, featuring a live interview moderated by Trib literary critic Elizabeth Taylor … [Read more...]
Book of the week: Nanjing 1937: A Love Story
I first learned of Nanjing 1937: A Love Story (Anchor, 2004) by Ye Zhaoyan on novelist Jennifer Cody Epstein's uber-addicting blog, Sheepish Fashionista. Her novel, The Painter from Shanghai (W.W. Norton, 2008) is one of my favorite books about China. So when she claimed on her … [Read more...]
Guest blog–Following in Confucius’s footsteps
I'm thrilled to feature another guest blog post by Ali Swanson. Although she and I were friends in middle and high school, we drifted apart after we went away to college. Unbeknownst to either of us, we ended up in Southeast Asia in the early 1990s and in China in the mid-90s. … [Read more...]
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