Before people in China owned cars, before they traveled abroad for pleasure, and before they could shop wherever they wished, they lived in apartments like this one.I stayed in this apartment 20 Chinese New Years ago when I visited my friends in Nanjing. The room in this … [Read more...]
Chinese New Year at the kids’ table
Oh, boy. This scene could have resulted in disaster.An open well, four kids, and a semi-literate 20 year-old foreigner who didn't have the language skills to tell a real adult if a kid fell down the well, let alone call for help.But it was all cool. In fact, these kids … [Read more...]
A night in the country
There's nothing like a good Chinese meal on a cold damp winter evening.Twenty years ago I partook in this dinner out in the Jiangsu countryside with my friends the Chens and their extended family.Mr. Chen's father is the gentleman facing my camera, wearing the furry hat … [Read more...]
My First Chinese New Year, 1991
I spent the afternoon today ushering in the Year of the Rabbit with a group of friends in the Chicago suburbs.Although the outside temperature crept above freezing, we enjoyed a banquet of tasty Cantonese food indoors in the comfort of central heat.But my first Chinese … [Read more...]
Book of the week–If You Lived Here
About a year ago I spent a long weekend with my husband in San Francisco. On that trip I brought Dana Sachs's memoir, The House on Dream Street (Seal Press, 2003) with me everywhere. On BART, MUNI, on the ferry across the bay, at the Napa train station. I read it during every … [Read more...]
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