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Share Since booking my trip to Hong Kong, I’ve been thinking about the places I hope to see in those four short days this April. But I’ve also been recalling my first year in Hong Kong when I moved there as a 19 year-old in the summer of 1990. This photo was taken days after my arrival. [...] Share If you’ve been following this site much, you’ll notice I love anniversaries: the 100th anniversary of Double Ten, the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China, and the various anniversaries of the Fall of Saigon and the Hong Kong Handover. I suppose I’m into these milestones because they bring together my passion for history and [...] Share Looking back at my 2011 blog posts, I’m drawn to a handful of old scanned photos I came across this year. Scanning my mother’s and her family’s old slides was like opening a jewelry box full of sparkling diamond necklaces. These photos were all taken in Asia in 1965. Angkor Wat in all its beauty. In [...] Share My holiday season has been nice and quiet, allowing me to plow through a few novels and memoirs since my kids went on break 10 days ago. One memoir I recently finished was Ma Thanegi’s Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy (ThingsAsian Press, 2010). The title refers to the defiles (gorges) on the Ayeyarwaddy (formerly Irrawaddy) River in [...] Share Now that Hillary Clinton will visit Myanmar next month, will we see an increase of US tourism to that country? After all, it’s been 50 years since a US Secretary of State has visited Myanmar (the country formerly known as Burma). To celebrate this historic event, I received two books today about Myanmar. The first [...] |
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