I've been waiting a long time for this week! Tonight marks the 14th anniversary of when the UK handed Hong Kong back to China. And to mark this occasion, I'm giving away two copies of a book I was honored to contribute to several years back.Fifty-Fifty: New Hong Kong Writing … [Read more...]
Handover week in Hong Kong!
Fourteen years this week, Britain handed Hong Kong over to China.It's summer and rather than go into an academic look at the Handover, I thought it'd be fun to show a couple ways Hong Kong changed after July 1, 1997.For instance, this flag was lowered that … [Read more...]
On power outages and water shortages
While yesterday was supposed to be the longest day of the year, we in the Chicago suburbs were cheated out of a couple of hours as the wake of a tornado swept through my town. I've never seen such huge trees bent over and peeled like bananas. And from 8:30 pm last night until … [Read more...]
Hong Kong’s Central district through the years
My first impression of Hong Kong was Central. Only I didn't know that's what its glitzy financial district was called until I landed in Hong Kong in 1990.This is what Central looked like back then:But on my mom's first trip to Central almost 30 years earlier, here's … [Read more...]
An evening with Ayelet Waldman
Last night I attended a reading with author Ayelet Waldman. It was a fun, entertaining event. It was also something I sort of helped plan.Months ago, Ayelet asked her Facebook friends to come up with some cities she should visit on her paperback tour for Red Hook Road … [Read more...]
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