I can't remember when I first heard that Great Britain would return Hong Kong to China at midnight on July 1, 1997, but it had to have been sometime in my early teens.It was then that I decided I wanted to experience Hong Kong before it changed hands.So it was no … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
It's not difficult to remember what I was doing 15 years ago today.It was the longest day of the year and a Sunday. I was still married to my Chinese husband, who went out that day to rehearse a musical performance he was working on for later that summer.I remember … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
I've always held a strange fascination with forbidden places. When I was in college, I was determined to travel to Vietnam and Cambodia, two countries not on the typical American tourist map.Cuba was the same.The more forbidden, the more attractive. So in 2004, I'd met my … [Read more...]
Hong Kong in letters
Yesterday I went through some old letters and postcards I'd sent to my paternal grandmother in the 1990s when I lived in Hong Kong. I got a bit out of control on Instagram (I'm susanbkason there) last night. It'd been a long time since I'd looked at these letters. Just as I found … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Nobody Said Not to Go
I've long been fascinated by the life and travels of Emily Hahn, an American writer who lived in Africa and Asia in the 1930s and 40s. When I speak about Jews in China during World War II and books set during that period, I always bring up her memoir, China to Me (Blakiston, … [Read more...]
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