I have to admit I bought this book for its cover. I usually have good luck picking books based on their covers; they usually turn out to be just as magical and as enlightening as they appear from the outside. Last month I saw something on social media where Hong Kong-based … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Over the last couple of months, I've come across Mara Hvistendahl's 2011 book, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (Public Affairs), while reading other books about feminism in China. So when I was in New York in March, I … [Read more...]
Happy Pub Day to KSR Burns!
Ever since I first visited Paris a couple years ago, I can't get enough of books set there. I'd read them before my first trip, but there was something about the city that kept me thinking about it after I left (and after I returned from my second trip there a year later) that … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Pachinko
When I went to Japan the winter of 1990-1991, I remember watching TV and learning about an upcoming election. One of the candidates (an incumbent, I think) discussed on television was singled out, not for any political reasons, but because he was Korean. He spoke fluent Japanese … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
Last week one of my college roommates from Hong Kong visited Chicago with her family. We had a magical time going around the city and eating up a storm (Ethiopian, Greek, stuffed pizza, Persian, and even Chinese food). Cloud Gate, or the Bean as we call it, was one of their … [Read more...]
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