Last night I attended a book reading with New York-based author Mingmei Yip. I first learned of Yip when I stumbled across her second novel, Petals from the Sky (Kensington, 2010). I enjoyed the Hong Kong, Paris, New York, and mainland China setting. In my blog review of this … [Read more...]
Easter in China
Today as millions celebrated Easter around the world, guest blogger Stuart Beaton (http://rastous.podomatic.com/) notes that this holiday is blatantly absent in China. Here's Stu to discuss why:While Christmas has become an unofficial holiday on the calendar, Easter will … [Read more...]
Nostalgia For An Eighties I Never Knew
Stuart Beaton is back guest blogging about something near and dear to my heart, but I won't spoil his surprise quite yet. His amazing podcasts (mostly author interviews) can be found at http://rastous.podomatic.com/. Here's Stuart:It’s the Tomb Sweeping Holiday week here in … [Read more...]
What I learned about raising children from my time in China
When I was a new mother of a baby boy 14 years ago, I vowed to raise him to treat women as equals. And years later when I had a baby girl I promised myself I'd teach her to feel good about herself no matter what.So yesterday at the salon, as I leaned back in a chair while … [Read more...]
Kitchen in a box
Guest blogger Stuart Beaton has been busy interviewing a slew of authors on his podcast site, http://rastous.podomatic.com/ as well as getting back into the new teaching term. But he's spent some time here blogging about his adventures teaching kitchen English. So bring out the … [Read more...]
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