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Share On Wednesday night I met celebrated author Xu Xi for dinner in Chicago. She’s in town for the AWP conference (Association of Writing Programs). I’ve worked with Xu Xi before, as a contributing writer for her anthology, Fifty-Fifty: New Hong Kong Writing (Haven Books, 2008) and when she helped me edit an early draft of [...] Share All relationships experience miscommunication at some point or other, but add a foreign language and you’re bound to have some benign misunderstandings. Stuart Beaton writes about a recent such mishap. (No worries–all’s well that ends well.) Stuart has a great podcast blog (his latest interview is with the fabulous author Claire Bidwell Smith) at http://rastous.podomatic.com/. Here’s [...] Share I just finished reading Chan Sui-jeung’s East River Column: Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and After (Hong Kong University Press, 2009) and have a new appreciation for the brave men and women of Hong Kong and southern China during and after the war. Hong Kong is not known for its military strength. [...] Share When I think of all the changes in China since I left in the late 90s, one that stands out is the advent of the warehouse grocery store. That was so not the case back in my day. So here’s Stuart Beaton, our man in Tianjin, to explain just how great the shopping in China [...] Share Peace Hotel Since my post from a couple days ago when I wrote about learning that my grandfather’s cousin had fled Germany for Shanghai in 1939, I’ve found some more information about this cousin and his circumstances. My grandfather’s uncle Karl in Germany had two children, Julius and Max Kohlhagen. Julius was the son [...] |
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