I'm always on the lookout for a good story set in Hong Kong. So it was with great delight that I recently read Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang's epic novel, The Woman Who Lost China (Open Books, 2013).While the story mainly takes place in China during WWII and the Chinese civil war, … [Read more...]
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Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang
Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang is a woman after my own heart. She first traveled to China in 1986 (when this photo was taken) at the age of 19 to study in Tianjin for a summer. Although she was reading Chinese at Oxford, her friends back in the UK thought she was crazy to go off to such … [Read more...]
Gifts from Hong Kong
I'm not much of a shopper at home. I'd rather read or go to a movie. But that all changes when I travel, especially to my favorite cities. Back when I lived in Hong Kong, friends and family in the US would give me shopping lists or I'd buy things for them on my own.On my … [Read more...]
Riviera Hotel, Havana
Yesterday I took my two eldest kids downtown Chicago to meet my husband's family and my mom for a pre-holiday lunch at the old Marshall Field department store, now Macy's. On the way home, we waited twenty minutes for a bus.An elderly woman commented on the kids and then said … [Read more...]